The 30th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is upon us. Should be quite a hot scene in Montreal this year. The event runs July 1 to 12, 2009. Of course we’re interested in who will be the 16th recipient of the Miles Davis Award, created for the festival’s 15th anniversary in … Continue reading »
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Miles Davis & Marcus Miller
Talkin’ Miles: Art, Stocks and Tributes
• The Missouri History Museum and Jazz St. Louis are teaming up to present a 50th anniversary tribute to Miles Davis’ classic album Kind of Blue at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, May 7 in the Museum’s MacDermott Grand Hall. The tribute concert will feature JSL director of education Phil Dunlap and the Legacy Jazz Quintet performing … Continue reading »
Mad Love for Miles Davis (courtesy of Q-Tip)
Noisemakers w/ Peter Rosenberg f/ QTip: Watch Q-Tip discuss how he was supposed to work with the legendary Miles Davis… Continue reading »
Talkin’ Miles: Back to funky 1975
Daniel Thomas MacInnes of videogames of the DAMNED has written a nice post about Agartha and Pangaea – two of Miles Davis’ more, how shall we say, intense, recordings from his jazz-funk fusion era. Daniel offers up some very cool photos of the rare vinyl lp version of Pangaea, which was released only in 1977 … Continue reading »
Miles Davis reference on “Lost” will not go unnoticed!
I’m a big fan of Lost. Not a mega fan who spends hours deciphering each scene for some hidden meaning (though I do enjoy reading about the crazy stuff the cool, mega fans unearth!), but a dedicated watcher nevertheless. So during Wednesday night’s entertaining episode, “Some Like It Hoth,” there was a moment when Miles … Continue reading »
Miles Davis Quintet, Stockholm 1968
Gingerbread Boy Footprints Agitation ‘Round Midnight Miles Davis Quintet, Stockholm 1968 Miles Davis – Trumpet Wayne Shorter – tenor sax Tony Williams – drums Herbie Hancock – piano Ron Carter – bass Continue reading »
‘Kind of Blue’ Gets the Harvard Treatment
In the continuing, 50th anniversary celebration of Kind of Blue we look to the ivy-covered walls of Harvard (Harvard Business School, to be exact) for more analysis and appreciation of the Miles Davis masterpiece. If you’ve ever wondered how Miles Davis created such a magnum opus, the answer just might be “radical simplicity,” according to … Continue reading »
The Sartorial Splendor of Miles Davis
AskMen.com has a running series entitled Style Icon, where they feature a who’s-who of actors, musicians, athletes and other celebrity types for their excellent ability to look/be fashionable. It’s a list, so everybody is up for debate, but there can be no disputing Miles Davis as a Style Icon. So we applaud AskMen.com for adding … Continue reading »
A Year of Praise: The ‘Kind of Blue’ 50th Anniversary
The 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ seminal recording, “Kind of Blue,” has provided us a tremendous, 50th-anniversary boxed set from Sony, commemorative events, special panels to converse over the album’s legacy and more ink spilled and Internet space devoted to retrospectives, analysis and appreciations about the best-selling jazz recording of all time to keep you … Continue reading »
Miles Davis Makes You A Better Guitarist
As someone who, as a youngster, wanted to be Eddie Van Halen, I’ve always loved the guitar and guitar players – from Hendrix, Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Steve Miller, Wes Montgomery and Dickey Betts. So here comes Wayne Brown and a fantastic post from his Wayne’s Guitar Blog titled: Ten Miles Davis Tips … Continue reading »
Miles Davis, Quite Quotable
I enjoy Doug Ramsey’s Blog (Rifftides) quite a lot, and today he’s been kind of enough to post some rather excellent quotes from Miles Davis. Continue reading »
Hey, What’s Don Cheadle Doing? *
Traitor is set for release in the UK this week so Don Cheadle is doing some press to promote the crime-thriller. This easy-breezy interview from the Daily Mail focuses on the actor’s sartorial preferences. Did you know that Don Cheadle owns a lot of hats? “I have a Sixties-style soft pork-pie hat and a panama … Continue reading »
Listen… to Miles Davis
Via David Hill at the always enjoyable jazz Hot House, I was reminded of Lockwood & Summit’s fantastic (and rare) audio interview of Miles Davis on KXLW in East St. Louis from 1953. Miles was visiting with DJ Harry Frost on his ‘Fresh Air’ show. David sums it up best: “Totally bizarre to hear Miles … Continue reading »
Miles Davis @ SXSW (postscript)
Pictured: George Avakian, Quincy Jones, Rolling Stone’s David Fricke and Erin Davis. Yesterday at SXSW was the big Kind of Blue @ 50 panel. The above photo comes courtesy Linda Park (great photo, LP). Writes Linda: “Today’s Kind of Blue at 50 panel reminded me of the best parts of Davis. It was full of … Continue reading »
