* sessions, commercial releases, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool… Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: March 2010
The Night Miles Davis Opened For Neil Young
Forty years ago this month, Neil Young and Miles Davis shared a bill at a theater in New York City. Nate Chinen looks at two stars whose orbits passed tantalizingly close. Click here to read the essay! 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 »
The Miles Davis Jazz Platinum Visa Card
Mike Zwerin has the story behind the First USA “real jazz platinum Visa card.” It’s interesting because at the time of the card’s debut (1997), the President and CEO of First USA Bank, Inc, Richard W. Vague, said that he would like his bank to function like Miles Davis’ band. “Now I’m not nearly so … Continue reading »
Jim Marshall, Photographer, Dies at 74
Jim Marshall, the photographer who captured some of rock & roll’s most unforgettable images including photos of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey Pop and Johnny Cash flipping the bird at San Quentin, died in his sleep last night in New York. He was 74. (link) Jim Marshall’s Miles Davis Collection: a must see! … Continue reading »
Miles Davis And Steve McQueen
Today is Steve McQueen’s birthday. He’d be 80! The occasion allows me a perfect opportunity to post an awesome photo of Miles Davis and Steve McQueen – backstage at the Monterey Jazz festival, 1963. A cooler twosome you shall not find. Photo: Miles & Steve 1963, © Jim Marshall Continue reading »
Miles Davis And The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
On the occasion that Genesis, Iggy Pop, The Hollies, ABBA and Jimmy Cliff were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last Monday, let’s look back to 2006 when jazz legend Miles Davis was honored posthumously with induction to the hall of fame of rock and roll. Miles was inducted by Herbie Hancock. … Continue reading »
Miles Davis: Live in Berlin, 1969
Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V * Nov. 7, 1969 Directions (Zawinul) Bitches Brew (Davis) It’s About That Time (Davis) I Fall In Love Too Easily (S. Cahn- J. Styne) Sanctuary (W. Shorter- Davis) The Theme (Davis) Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Online Artist Series / A Quick Retrospective
There have been seven installments of the Miles Davis Online Artist Series thus far – each of them a real pleasure for me to be a part of. There is so much amazing art to be discovered that is either based on, or inspired by, Mr. Miles Davis. During the past year, I have enjoyed … Continue reading »
SXSW Panel Recap: Miles Davis – Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Tribute
“If there was one event on the modern jazz timeline that’s most divisive, it would be the coming of jazz-rock fusion at the close of the Sixties,” began veteran music journalist Ashley Kahn. LINK Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Gets Involved – In 2007!
I think it’s interesting to see various newspapers and websites commenting on the ‘news’ that Don Cheadle is going to play Miles Davis in a biopic of the jazz legend. Obviously they are not reading my work(!). It’s no big deal to be delayed in reporting/commenting on an entertainment story, but I kicked-off the Biopic … Continue reading »
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Miles (w/ Betty Mabry Davis to his left) at the funeral of Jimi Hendrix Photo © Life Continue reading »
Miles Davis Search Update or; Why Miles Davis Online Is Really The Only Place For All Things Miles Davis
We here at Miles Davis Online like to think of ourselves as the Official Miles Davis Website, even if it’s unofficial. And unofficial only because Miles Davis Properties owns the choice domain milesdavis.com; I am sure you’ve seen it considering it comes up atop a Google search for Miles Davis. I won’t get into the … Continue reading »
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Boris Vian and Miles Davis: Boris Vian was a French writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L’Écume des jours and L’Arrache-cœur (translated into English as ‘Froth on the Daydream’ and ‘Heartsnatcher,’ respectively). He is also known for highly controversial “criminal” fiction released under … Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: Filming The Steve Allen Show Appearance
I was still a ways off from making my appearance on the planet, but I can only imagine how exciting it must have been in ’64 to watch Miles Davis and Co. perform on The Steve Allen Show. I could be lost in a haze of nostalgia for a bygone era, (I’ve been watching a … Continue reading »
