The Miles Davis Classic ‘Milestones’ Covered By Skrillex And The Doors

Skrillex, dubstep’s first genuine superstar and perhaps the most divisive man in dance music right now, has collaborated with the remaining members of The Doors. In what’s being billed as the first Doors track of the 21st century, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore have got in the studio with Skrillex to record a [...]

TechCrunch Reviews The Miles Davis Trumpet Headphones

Monster markets the Trumpets as “musicians’ headphones.” They praise the detail and clarity and I agree for the most part — if you can get can them in your ear correctly and don’t care about lossless audio. The Trumpets strongest attribute is the immense virtual soundstage they can produce. The music is wonderfully spread out. [...]

Getty Images: Inside The Miles Davis Collection

(pt. 11 in a series) Title: Nyro & Miles In The Studio Date created: July 16, 1969 Click here to view the awesome PHOTO!

New Miles Davis Box Set Celebrates His Work From The ’80s

This month, Warner Music will release Miles Davis – The Warner Years 1986-1991, a 5-CD boxset celebrating the last recordings of the legendary trumpeter, from Tutu (1986) to Doo-Bop, his final studio work. After 40 years of musical evolution marked by a series of unrivaled masterpieces (Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Bitches Brew), Miles [...]

Miles Davis | Around The Web

A Weekly Round-Up Of Miles Davis News & Notes 1. Relix Explores the ‘On The Corner’ Sessions From 1972 to 1975, Miles Davis made his most complex, most aggressive, most unforgiving and occasionally most beautiful music, and it’s often been given short shrift in the past by jazz critics who’d never been able to adjust [...]

Miles Davis Was The Steve Jobs Of Music, Or: Steve Jobs Was The Miles Davis Of Business

Excellent post in The New Yorker from Nicholas Thompson about Steve Jobs and ‘who the next Steve Jobs will be, or who the last one was.’ I can’t think of an example from business. But I can think of one from music: Miles Davis. Like Jobs, he was a showman who was also intensely private. [...]

Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dies at 56

A classic photo of Miles Davis, part of Apple’s “think different” campaign. Wall Street Journal: Apple’s Steve Jobs Is Dead

The Miles Davis Movie: An Offer On The Table, But No Details

No big surprise that there hasn’t been much news lately for the Miles Davis Movie. The project’s chief visionary, Don Cheadle, recently made news by joining Denzel Washington in the Robert Zemeckis drama Flight. And let’s not forget Showtime’s upcoming comedy, House of Lies, which stars Cheadle and Kristen Bell and debuts in early 2012. [...]

Miles Davis Edition Of Vibrations Collector Magazine Just Released

If you speak French this is good news. Even if you do not speak French this is still good news – due to the beautiful photos! A new issue of Vibrations Collector is out – and it is all about Miles Davis. The special issue features gorgeous photos, original essays and exclusive interviews. The magazine [...]