Miles Davis In Outer Space
Cool, music-meets-outer space news this week. Col. Timothy L. Korpa is leaving terra firma for the International Space Station next month, and for his journey on the space shuttle he’s packing a copy of Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1984 classic, Ocean Rain. Over at Wired, Scott Thill and the staff put together a top 5 [...]
Talkin’ Miles: DVDs & Miles Davis On ‘Mad Men’
Ken Shane (PopDose) makes yet another appearance in the Talkin’ Miles feature. After last week’s crate diving expedition, which yielded the wonderful E.S.P., this week he’s reviewing the DVD Miles Davis: That’s What Happened, a 1987 Miles Davis concert in Munich. An international line-up of jazz stars will be in Los Gatos this summer for [...]
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Spoken Word Tribute To Miles Davis Returns With An Encore Performance
Call it the Return of the Cool. The spoken word production company BlackPoet Ventures is set for a repeat presentation of Cool Like That: A Tribute To Miles Davis. Scheduled for May 24 at the Kerr Cultural Center on the campus of Arizona State University, Cool Like That will incorporate live music, dance and song [...]
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Ornette Coleman Is Miles Davis Award Winner At Montreal Jazz Festival
Ornette Coleman will be the 16th recipient of the Miles Davis Award, created for the Montreal International Jazz Festival’s 15th anniversary in 1994 to honour a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician’s influence in regenerating the jazz idiom. “This peerless jazz titan insists that [...]
Miles Davis, Lover Of Fast Cars
During a search for All Things Miles Davis (our motto around here), I stumbled by Luxist and found a photo of a red, Lamborghini Miura – one of Miles’ favorites. Yes, Miles Davis loved his flashy cars. Chris Weige, formerly of Downbeat Magazine, provides a teriffic history lesson about Miles’ affinity for fast cars… and [...]
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Bassist Percy Heath looks on as Miles Davis makes a notation during a recording session at Wor Studios in New York, 1953. Photograph by Francis Wolff
Talkin’ Miles: Vinyl Fever
Ken Shane (PopDose) goes digging in the vinyl crates and comes up with the classic E.S.P. “It wasn’t until years later that I came to appreciate the awesome talent assembled for this record,” writes Shane. At Vinyl Habit I happened upon two, great album cover shots of Miles & Monk at Newport and Miles Davis [...]
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In Which Miles Davis Acts In A Movie
I wish I could say I knew Miles Davis was in a movie called Dingo. But no – no clue. Until I happened upon a clip via YouTube. At first I thought the movie might be about Miles Davis battling actual dingos (wild dog), which would have been a big surprise, though no less compelling. [...]
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Miles Davis Plays for Jeanne Moreau (Keystone/Getty Images)
Miles Davis / Artwork
Oh, the things you find on the ‘net connected to Miles Davis. What we’re seeing here is a quite creative finalist for last year’s album cover set by the Sony BMG Legends label. The designer is Carl Fredrik Castberg. The Miles Davis collaboration attracted final submissions from art schools all around the world including the [...]
Talkin’ Miles: Playlists, Influence & Food
· Speaking to Billboard about the new Flaming Lips double-album, lead singer Wayne Coyne said that one new track, called “Convinced of the Hex,” is, “like Joy Division-meets-Miles Davis Group…” · Ben Greeman is an editor at The New Yorker. He has a book coming out. He is addicted to Sly and the Family Stone. He put together a [...]
