Talkin’ Miles: Quotes & Photographs
- Check out great photos, a short video clip, and two fantastic audio tracks — Rocker and Moon Dreams — from the recent sold out Birth of the Cool Miles Davis Tribute live at Yoshi’s in San Francisco on May 25, 2009.
- Pitchfork reviews Sketches of Spain: Legacy Edition.
- “You know, Miles had a mystique about him. … He was a well-dressed little guy that people liked. He hired people based on what he thought he could get back from them. He said he couldn’t be with someone where he’d bounce something off them and nothing came back. That was his strategy for hiring people.” — Jimmy Cobb, interview on SFGate.com.
- “Kind of Blue is the anthem album of the quintessential sextet in all of modern jazz. It is the ‘mainstream’ jazz sound on the cusp of the fifties and sixties; representing the mellowing of hard bop with indications of endless possibilities in exploring jazz improvisation within tonal music. In many ways it was the sweet swansong of bebop and its structure of improvisation around chord changes.” — Tam Fiofori, writing on 234next.com.
- “On one occasion, as the radio played one Pandora station, I turned to my computer and created another, a Miles Davis station. Within seconds the Miles Davis station was ready for use on the Livio.” — Arik Hesseldahl, reviewing the Livio Radio.
- JazzWax debuts new PhotoStory series. This week: a Miles Davis photo from photographer Sal Criscillo.
Photo: Robert W. Kelley./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images – May 01, 1958
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