Miles Davis, Music Discovery and ColorHits

In my daily, inspired pursuit of music discovery – both new and old -, I am most grateful for the many online platforms built to help me discover and share music. New to my arsenal of music discovery tools is ColorHits, a rather unique way to discover and connect to music. Shifting his web and [...]

Miles Davis | Around The Web

A Weekly Round-Up Of Miles Davis News & Notes 1. Miles Davis and Edith Piaf Take Center Stage U.S. Postal Service and France’s La Poste to Honor Renowned Musicians on Forever Stamps in June. The United States Postal Service today announced the joint issuance of new Forever stamps honoring two of the world’s greatest musicians, [...]

Finally: U.S. Post Office To Issue Miles Davis Stamp

It’s about time. Here is a link and snippet of text below from the news item via TheTelegraph.com. Linn’s Stamp News announced that stamps honoring Davis and French singer Edith Piaf would be issued in 2012 as part of a joint issue with French postal service, La Poste. “This is a fitting honor,” said Lee [...]

Chaka Khan Speaks Fondly Of Close Friend Miles Davis

It’s not often I link to a story from SeattleLesbian.com, but they recently published a good interview with Chaka Khan – who had some nice things to say about Miles Davis. From Sarah Toce’s interview: I recently asked the Rock’n Roll Hall of Fame nominee which memory over the past three decades was closest to [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Stirs Up Buzz With Comments About His Miles Davis Film

Of all the news to come out of Don Cheadle’s interview with the Wall Street Journal last week about his Miles Davis Film, his comment about the movie being ‘a gangster pic’ has attracted the most attention. Gangster like ‘Goodfellas’ gangster? No, most likely not – let’s hope. More like the modern slang ‘gangsta’, which [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Says They Have A Studio Offer; Describes Movie’s Style As ‘Cubist’

With 2012 knocking on the door, we leave 2011 with a blast of exciting news from Don Cheadle regarding the Miles Davis Movie. Here’s the Don Cheadle q&a with John Jurgensen from Friday’s Wall Street Journal: You’ve been midwifing a Miles Davis movie for years. Is that baby still alive? It is. It’s the longest [...]

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A Weekly Round-Up Of Miles Davis News & Notes 1. Mad at Miles delivers the truth with humor, drama, and concern Miles Davis would probably pour another drink and throw on some jazz after watching Mad at Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide to Truth. After all, this play mentions Davis is a less than flattering [...]

The Other Miles Davis Biopic Makes A Big Move

via cinemablend.com Soul Food and Men of Honor director George Tillman Jr., who captured Notorious B.I.G.’s life story in the 2009 biopic Notorious, will take a swing at another musical icon when he tackles Miles Davis in a planned biopic. Tentatively titled Miles, the film is being developed by the late trumpeter’s son, Gregory, The [...]

The Miles Davis Movie: Is Antoine Fuqua Directing The Miles Davis Biopic?

Director Antoine Fuqua’s name has been associated for many years with the Miles Davis Biopic. I have always figured Don Cheadle would direct the film, along with portraying the jazz legend. In March of 2007, news officially broke of Cheadle’s involvement with the project; a story in Variety noted that Cheadle would make his feature [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]