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Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Miles Davis Movie: What Scene Would You Especially Like To See In The Biopic?
Let’s not spend the next 100 hours dissecting every important and negligible detail in the life of Miles Davis. However, there are numerous moments of public record that serve as significant milestones during the life and times of the great jazz man. No doubt many of those moments will make their way into the film … Continue reading »
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The Miles Davis Movie: Finding The Voice
I stumbled across a somewhat notable interview Miles Davis did with Don DeMichael in 1969 for Rolling Stone – (Jazz’s Picasso puts it in black and white; it’s an interesting enough read, but what caught my attention was this particular passage: There’s the one about how he lost his voice (the Davis voice is a … Continue reading »
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool… Continue reading »
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool… Continue reading »
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool… Continue reading »
‘Between the Devil & Miles Davis’
Amo is a hardened journalist who smokes and drinks too much, though not nearly enough for her own taste. Assigned to profile the late jazz legend Miles Davis, she finds herself at a creative impasse. How does one approach such an ‘overly-written-about’ artist from a fresh angle, and what’s her opinion worth anyway in a … Continue reading »
Miles Davis Is In Your Living Room
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Miles Davis: All Of You, ’64
The Miles Davis Movie: More Box Office Success In The U.S., Or Abroad?
While I do think the domestic release of the Miles Davis Biopic will bring with it a hefty share of media coverage and hype, critical debate, awards discussion and positive ticket sales (I can only assume), I can foresee the film doing big business abroad — perhaps even better abroad versus the U.S. There’s the … Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle In Paris
In between all the Iron Man 2 hullabaloo, it’s easy to forget Don Cheadle is the guy with the enormous responsibility to make a biopic about Miles Davis. So when we get a glimpse of the actor strolling around the We Want Miles exhibit in Paris, it tells those of us following the long and … Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle In Paris For Miles Davis Exhibit
In between all the Iron Man 2 hullabaloo, it’s easy to forget Don Cheadle is the guy with the enormous responsibility to make a biopic about Miles Davis. So when we get a glimpse of the actor strolling around the We Want Miles exhibit in Paris, it tells those of us following the long and … Continue reading »
House of Representatives Honors Kind of Blue
Normally entangled in one debacle or another, the House of Representatives took a pause today from trying to burn the country to the ground and come together to vote on an issue everyone can agree on – regardless of political or musical persuasion. Fifty years after Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue, the House voted … Continue reading »
Miles Davis / VH1 1987
Click HERE to see a rare, and damn good, clip of Miles Davis from the early days of VH1, long before it turned into a receptacle for utterly ridiculous reality shows. Nevertheless, VH1 was once cool. Here is the proof. I wasn’t able to embed the clip, sorry, but for sure check it out. Continue reading »
