The Miles Davis Movie: Will It Be The Best Movie Ever About Jazz? Or: Wow, There Are Not A Lot Of Movies About Jazz
Let’s take a look at a shortlist of good-to-great films with jazz as its central theme (excluding documentaries…): Bird Round Midnight Mo’ Better Blues The Five Pennies Sweet And Lowdown Sweet Love, Bitter Tune in Tomorrow… Paris Blues St. Louis Blues The Benny Goodman Story” The Glenn Miller Story Young Man with a Horn Lady [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Do We Need A Movie About Miles Davis?
Yes. I could have left it at that, but I bring up the topic based on an interesting comment posted on the Miles Davis Movie site by Todd who wrote: A movie about Miles Davis? Impossible. Miles is more a concept and a state of mind – not a persona as a movie needs to [...]
Get Your Miles Davis Tribute Jazz Headphones
This is something I will probably end up getting. Just because. From the complex and rich textures of the Gil Evans orchestra on Sketches of Spain, to one of jazz’s most magical moments, Kind of Blue—you’ve never heard your favorites like you will with Miles Davis Tribute Jazz Headphones. Miles Davis Tribute Jazz Headphones are [...]
Miles Davis / Online
* The Selvedge Yard inducts Miles Davis into their Style Hall of Fame. The post includes some knockout photos! * Miles Ahead: Paris Celebrates Miles Davis. * Miles Davis lived here: Check out the 1983 Buff and Hensman contemporary on the west end of Malibu that was a beachfront hangout for the jazz legend. * [...]
CMJ Pays Tribute To Miles Davis
Yes. It’s today. But if you are in New York City definitely try to swing by! Timeless Miles: 1959 – A Pivotal Year In Music 3:30–4:45 / NYU Kimmel Center, 4th Floor, Eisner & Lubin, Room 401 The definition of cool can be summed up in two words: Miles Davis. Explore this timeless musical genius; [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Who Is Going To Play Dizzy Gillespie?
In 1944, the Billy Eckstine band visited St. Louis. The group included saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Davis, 18, joined the band as third trumpet for a couple of weeks. Not a bad way to get your start as a jazz musician. The role of Gillespie is not essential to the film, but [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Filming ‘At the Blackhawk’
In April of 1961 the Miles Davis Quintet played two nights at the Blackhawk, a legendary jazz club in San Francisco. The Friday and Saturday night shows were captured on two separate recordings (now available as a complete set w/ an unreleased fourth set). I love this collection. The quintet (together only briefly) features Paul [...]
9 Minutes and 23 Seconds of Miles Davis
Over at one of my favorite music sites, Fusion 45, there’s a good post about the ‘best’ songs that last 9 minutes and 23 seconds. And there’s actually three songs by jazz legends that are all the same length: 9 minutes 23 seconds. Joe Henderson – “Black Miracle” Thelonius Monk – “Straight No Chaser” Miles [...]
If Miles Davis Were A Gardner….
Excellent work from McSweeney’s, courtesy Ryan Abbott’s Miles Davis’s Container Gardening Tips. A snippet: 2. Play music to your plants Music heals all wounds except those inflicted by a hunting knife, so I like to play music to my plants. What do I play? People stop me on the street to ask me that all [...]
Miles Davis Equals Good Public Relations
Public Relations firm ParkYoung makes the PR-Miles Davis connection (quite well) on their In Brands We Trust blog. Think of a PR and communications campaign as a jazz band.
Miles Davis Quintet – I Fall in Love too Easily
Was That A Miles Davis Song On ‘Mad Men’ Sunday?
Episode 8: Souvenir: When Pete Campbell returned home and flipped on the record player, it sounded like Miles Davis. I believe it’s 1963 right now in season 3 and that means there are plenty of Davis albums Pete could be listening to, notably Kind of Blue, Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain and so on. And [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Filming ‘Bitches Brew’
‘Electric’ Miles is not my favorite chapter in the legend’s musical history, but I’m no less impressed and entertained by the supremely talented musicians associated with some pretty revolutionary recordings – namely Bitches Brew. I’m torn on how much, if any, movie time in the Miles Davis film is going to be devoted to the [...]
