With the 2010 Festival de Cannes set for May 12-23, I am wondering about the Miles Davis Biopic and if, perhaps, the film could make its debut in the south of France. Once it’s finally made, of course. This is pure conjecture, but it makes more sense by the minute, especially when you consider the … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Miles Davis Online Turns One Year Old!
Happy Birthday! Miles Davis Online is one year old. First and foremost I want to thank all of you loyal readers who have made this Miles Davis blog what it is. I had already been writing the Miles Davis Movie blog to chronicle the ongoing process of the Miles Davis Biopic. But then I decided … Continue reading »
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, imports, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool… Continue reading »
Celebrate Miles Davis’ 84th Birthday With New Box Set and CD/DVD Releases
Click here for the details. There’s also news of a “unique partnership/collaborative effort between the Miles Davis Estate and Sony Music,” which is featuring a brand new official Miles Davis website. Game on! Look, the estate and Sony has so much material, I hope hope hope they throw all kinds of excellent content online – … Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Talks Miles Davis Biopic Amid Iron Man 2 Hullabaloo
I’m not sure why the MTV news item about the Biopic not being a cradle-to-grave film should be adorned with an ‘exclusive’ headline. We covered this way back in August on the Biopic Blog. Oh well. Still… it’s nice to see Don Cheadle having positive things about the Miles Davis Movie: “The story is really … Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Talks Miles Davis Biopic Amid Iron Man 2 Hullabaloo
I’m not sure why the MTV news item about the Biopic not being a cradle-to-grave film should be adorned with an ‘exclusive’ headline. We covered this way back in August on the Biopic Blog. Oh well. Still… it’s nice to see Don Cheadle having positive things about the Miles Davis Movie: “The story is really … Continue reading »
Miles Davis: Honky Tonk
I think it’s “Honky Tonk.” I don’t always love the fusion stuff, but the man is on fire in this clip. That’s heavy funk, and it is good. Probably recorded Nov. 17th, 1970 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA. Miles, Airto Moriera and Michael Henderson are visible; Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette can be heard. … Continue reading »
Miles Davis / The Sidemen
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The Magic and Mystery of Miles Davis
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts offers the only showing in North America of this exhibition devoted to ‘the Picasso of Jazz’ MONTREAL — According to Miles Davis in his scabrous autobiography, when the trumpeter was invited to a White House dinner in 1987, an older woman asked him what he’d done to merit being … Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: Filming The Birth of the Cool
I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal (Hidden in Plain Hearing) about the beginnings of cool jazz and what is often referred to as the ‘Birth of the Cool.’ And when you mention the phrase ‘Birth of the Cool’ you quickly think of Miles Davis, the classic nonet and the legendary recording … Continue reading »
Miles Davis, 1947
LIFEembedDrawImage2(’3204571′,’260′); circa 1947: EXCLUSIVE Portrait of American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis (1926 – 1991) smiling and wearing a hat, with a blazer and a dark shirt. Photo: Metronome/Getty Images Jan 01, 1947 * Damn that is a great photograph Continue reading »
It Was ‘A Great Day in Harlem,’ But Where Was Miles Davis?
Art Kane’s legendary photograph A Great Day In Harlem is one of my favorite images; a single snapshot of jazz history. Often times, when I look over the faces of all those jazz greats who gathered on that August day in 1958, I wonder, “Hey! Where’s Miles Davis?” I was reminded of my curiosity after … Continue reading »
Miles Davis / From The Archives
We jump back to October 11, 1991, just days after Miles Davis had died, with a terrific commentary in Entertainment Weekly by Greg Sandow. Death of the Cool ‘Remembering Miles Davis — For four decades he remade jazz in his own ever-changing image’ Miles Davis, not to put too fine a point on it, was … Continue reading »
Birth Of The Cool Sessions
LIFEembedDrawImage2(’85661205′,’208′); High-angle view of the Miles Davis nonet in a recording studio at Capitol Records for the sessions that were released as ‘Birth of the Cool,’ New York, New York, January 21, 1949. Pictured are, clockwise from left, Bill Barber (1920 – 2007), Junior Collins, Kai Winding (1922 – 1983), Max Roach (1924 – 2007) … Continue reading »
