Hey, What’s Don Cheadle Doing?*

The following Don Cheadle news comes via Deadline Hollywood and reporter Nellie Andreeva: Don Cheadle, star of Showtime’s upcoming comedy series House of Lies, is expanding his relationship with the pay cable network through a first-look deal for his Crescendo Prods. Under the one-year pact, Cheadle and his producing partners Kay Liberman and Lenore Zerman [...]

Miles Davis | Around The Web

A Weekly Round-Up Of Miles Davis News & Notes 1. Miles Davis: Peeking Through the Blindfold There’s a lot more to Davis’s vastly complex aesthetic psychology and artistic transformations and conflicts. It’s enough to note that he knew he needed something from Dolphy and Taylor—and that he needed it more than they needed, at that [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Says ‘It’s Not A Biopic’

Collider makes my day with a new interview with Don Cheadle. In between discussing Iron Man 3, The Avengers and his new Showtime project House of Lies, Collider’s Sheila Roberts was able to get Cheadle to discuss the Miles Davis Biopic. Q: A while back you talked to us about the Miles Davis project with [...]

Miles Davis Soundboard: File Under Things We Need

I could be wrong but I do not believe there exists a Miles Davis Soundboard. I even checked soundboard.com and nope, of the 75k-plus Soundboards not one is a Miles Davis. Any Alec Baldwin Soundboard always makes me chuckle, the Judd Nelson/Breakfast Club is great and Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket is a Soundboard [...]

The Miles Davis Lounge Is As Cool As It Sounds

The Miles Davis Lounge, located inside the luxurious Kulm Hotel St.Moritz, is ‘a place for fans and music lovers.’ The Miles Davis Lounge, perfectly situated in the heart of St. Moritz, is also the latest addition to the Festival da Jazz; the fifth installment of the jazz festival in the elegant resort town of St.Moritz [...]

Miles Davis At Isle Of Wight Is One Of The ’50 Key Events In The History Of Jazz Music’

So says The Guardian, which lists the Miles Davis performance on August 29, 1970 in front of 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight at #38 in their series of the 50 key events in the history of Jazz music. Writes Richard Williams: The coolest man on the planet took the stage at the Isle [...]

The Legacy Of The 1955-56 Miles Davis Quintet

Mick Carlon has penned an absolutely terrific article for JazzTimes about the Miles Davis Quintet of 1955-1956. Carlon revisits the legacy of the trumpeter’s influential group with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. Here’s a snippet: The quintet—or, as many critics referred to it: The Quintet—recorded their first-to-be-released album on November [...]

Miles Davis Makes Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne’s Favorite Albums List

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne recently sat down with The Quietus to reveal and discuss his 13 favorite albums. Davis’ Bitches Brew clocks in at #3, right behind Live at Leeds (The Who) and White Album (Beatles) – both pretty darn good albums. Coyne talks about the legendary Bitches Brew w/ The Quietus: Even with [...]