Miles Davis and Easy Mo Bee
I like this song more today than I did yesterday.
Miles Davis To Get Multimedia Tribute In Southern California
Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts (formerly Orange County Performing Arts Center) will play host to The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959 – A Collaboration with Blue Note Records, a musical event that pays tribute to Miles Davis with live performance, archival images, film and recordings. The multimedia experience traces Miles’ most notable tracks from 1949 [...]
Miles Davis Featured In National Jazz Museum Screening
National Jazz Museum in Harlem Jazz for Curious Listeners / Jazz on Film: Miles Davis Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300 “Miles Davis on film playing trumpet with the Gil Evans Orchestra as John Coltrane waits in the [...]
Miles Davis And The Oscars
With today’s announcement of nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards, I once again have an opportunity to dust off my Miles Davis/Oscars post. It’s a terrific game of awards speculation, especially now that Don Cheadle has shed a little light on the Miles Davis Biopic, offering a few details about what we have to look [...]
Miles Davis And Philip Seymour Hoffman And A Pool In NYC
This is a great story from actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Via ContactMusic.com, here is the breakdown from Hoffman about his encounter with Miles Davis when the jazz legend was swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. The actor recalls, “I was a lifeguard in my early 20s at this place, the Metropolitan Towers… [...]
A Story That Incudes Miles Davis, A Tokyo Airport, John Oates And John Oates’ Mustache
I love Miles Davis. No big surprise there. I also love Hall & Oates. So when I was directed by The Daily Swarm to this New York Magazine article about Daryl Hall that features a segment on John Oates saying goodbye to the famous mustache and bumping into Miles Davis in a Tokyo airport — [...]
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Heath Killen
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Miles Davis 2011: A Look Ahead
Miles Davis Biopic: With a possible release date (according to IMDB) sitting comfortably on the 2013 calendar, it’s no surprise news is fleeting. It didn’t stop me from starting a blog about it in 2008! Boy was I early to the party. Nevertheless, 2010 closed with an unexpected bang of news about the slow-moving biopic. [...]
Miles Davis At The 18th Pct., 1970
I look at a lot of Miles Davis photos. There are some on the internet I have scanned hundreds of times; there’s tons of amazing photographs of the jazz legend online, but after awhile you start seeing the same images over and over. Fans of Miles are lucky because between stock agencies like Getty Images, [...]
Miles Davis Christmas Gift Guide!
Miles Davis – “The Genius of Miles Davis” $799.00 Get it here! We Want Miles: Miles Davis vs. Jazz Written by Vincent Bessieres and Franck Bergerot $50.00 Get it here or here or here! Miles Davis : Bitches Brew (40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition) $124.98 Get it here! Miles Davis Promo Print $100 Get it here! [...]
Getty Images: Inside The Miles Davis Collection
(pt. 8 in a series) Title: Miles Davis Date created: 01 Jan 1959 Click here to view the awesome PHOTO!
He Solves Crimes, He Listens To Miles Davis
“Ash Levine, the protagonist of Miles Corwin’s debut novel, Kind of Blue (Oceanview, November), is another music lover: As the title indicates, he’s serious about Miles Davis. An LAPD detective who comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of another ex-officer, Levine, like an increasing number of thriller heroes, has ties to the Israeli [...]
The Miles Davis Radio Project Is Essential Listening For Any Miles Davis Fan
The Miles Davis Radio Project is a Peabody Award-winning series of eight, one-hour programs about the life and music of Miles Davis. Produced by Steve Rowland and narrated by Danny Glover, the program features interviews with Quincy Jones, Roberta Flack, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, Philip Glass, Dizzy Gillespie and others. Miles’ music is featured prominently [...]
Miles Davis and the French Comic Book
The late great Mike Zwerin tells us about Miles Davis and the French comic book: “The French love American art forms that America has ignored — jazz and comic books of the 1950s and 1960s, for example. Robert Crumb and Miles Davis were stars in France long before America. The French record company Nocturne has [...]
The Miles Davis Movie – In Four Frames
I really like this blog — Movies In Frames. It’s basically a presentation of various films chiseled down into four frames. There are loads of great examples, covering a wide variety of movies. The three versions for “Alien” are quite good. I also like Every Which Way But Loose and the trio created for Memento. [...]
