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Talkin’ Miles: 1959, KoB & A New T-Shirt
– Congrats to George Avakian. He’s been named one of the eight recipients of The National Endowment for the Arts’ 2010 NEA Jazz Masters Award — the nation’s highest honor in this distinctly American music. The eight recipients will each receive a $25,000 grant award and be publicly honored in an awards ceremony and concert [...]
Miles Davis Birthday Tribute In Chicago
Via Howard Reich at the Chicago Tribune: The spirit of Miles Davis will hover over the Velvet Lounge this holiday weekend, with musicians influenced by the iconic trumpeter playing potentially significant shows. * The main event will unfold on Monday, when pianist-composer Robert “Baabe” Irving III presides over an annual birthday tribute to Davis, who [...]
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Miles Davis and Steve McQueen – backstage at the Monterey Jazz festival, 1963. Cool.
Miles Davis / From The Archives
Let’s stroll back, shall we, to 1998. Adam Shatz, writing for Slate, rediscovers the Miles Davis Quintet on the occasion of Columbia/Legacy releasing The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, January 1965-June 1968. …But Davis was in a creative slump in the early ’60s. He couldn’t keep a band together, and he [...]
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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