Miles Davis Online Interview w/ Photographer Jamie Parslow
(Artist Series, Volume 4) I had an instant reaction to Jamie Parslow’s photography: the work is honest, alluring and immediate. In my search for Miles Davis art and photography, I found Parslow and with him not only three, marvelous photographs of the jazz legend, but a lovely assortment of photographs taken throughout a long career; [...]
Talkin’ Miles: Awards, Images & Clubs
The 50th Anniversary Edition of Kind Of Blue receives the MOJO Catalogue Release Of The Year award The Moviegoer, switching over to The Musicgoer for a spell, features a profile he wrote for SEE Magazine (Edmonton) on jazz legend Jimmy Cobb. “They would come to love opera, especially “Tosca” and Chet Baker, Mahler and Miles [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
In Honor of Michael Jackson: Miles Davis Plays ‘Human Nature’
Sketching Miles Davis: Interview with Artist Jeremy Powell
(Artist Series, Volume 3) I’m always blown away by pencil sketch art; it’s stripped-down creativity I can really appreicate. And speaking of creativity, I am pleased to feature a phenomenal pencil sketch of Miles Davis by the talented artist Jeremy Powell. The structure and form of this particular sketch above is simply terrific, as is [...]
Miles Davis: Before & After
*Via the wonderful If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats. Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson and Kimberly Lindbergs curate one of my favorite clicks on the ‘net.
Miles Davis / From The Archives (The Apple Years)
We’re going for a bit of a mixed-bag with this episode of From The Archives. Much had been written about the Apple Think Different campaign – and that includes plenty of ink related to Miles Davis. I own the Miles Davis poster from the campaign and have always been a fan of TBWA Chiat/Day’s inventive [...]
Painting Miles Davis: Interview with David N. Goldberg
(Artist Series, Volume 2) The colors. The colors in David N. Goldberg’s artwork grab my attention immediately; warm, confident and beautiful – like Lauren Bacall wrapped in a harmony of paint. I instantly sparked to Goldberg’s work. The Miles Davis (oil on canvas) painting, of course, was what brought me to his exquisite collection of [...]
Miles Davis Is Under Arrest
Original Caption: 26 Aug 1959, Manhattan, New York, New York: Musician Arrested. West 54th Street Station House—18th Precinct. Miles Davis, 32, of 881 10th Avenue, a trumpeter now appearing in Birdland, 52nd Street and Broadway, was arrested after fighting with patrolman Gerald Kilduff, who had ordered him to move from crowded sidewalk. In the scuffle, [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
Talkin’ Miles: ’59, Trane & Carnegie Hall
“With the reissue of landmark jazz albums Kind of Blue and Time Out from 50 years ago, it’s hard not to feel a little nostalgic.” Has it been all downhill for jazz since 1959? J.D. Considine starts the conversation. Miles of John Coltrane — good spot to read about “original issues on which Coltrane plays [...]
All-Star Tribute To Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ Highlights Playboy Jazz Festival This Weekend
Via The Signal: Saturday’s “Kind of Blue @50″ homage to trumpet legend Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” album by Jimmy Cobb’s So What Band makes a direct connection to that epochal album, the classic era it represents, and to Playboy itself. “The very first Playboy (magazine) interview was with Miles,” said Playboy founder Hugh [...]
Painting Miles Davis: Interview with Yuriy Shevchuk
(Artist Series, Volume 1) Yuriy Shevchuk’s artwork is wonderful; modern art so full of charm, sophistication and style blended with a delightful harmony of color. Among his excellent gallery of oil, watercolor and pastel artwork are numerous Miles Davis paintings (two posted above). There’s actually a large number of lovely, jazz-inspired paintings to enjoy, but [...]
Miles Davis / From The Archives
Although Stylus Magazine is no longer operating, much of their music and film content is still available online. Our latest Archives post goes back to a Stylus feature known as Seconds, a column that examined “those magic moments that arose when listening to a piece of music that strikes that special chord inside.” We jump [...]
Photographer Jim Marshall Launches New Website
From John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk to The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, Jim Marshall has photographed many of the greatest musicians of our time. And he’s snapped some of the absolutely most essential photographs of Miles Davis. In conjunction with the team at Groovy Collectibles LLC, Marshall has launched MarshallPhoto.com, the official site for the [...]
