The Miles Davis Movie: Remember When Wesley Snipes Was Going To Play Miles Davis?
That’s correct… the star of such Hollywood films like “New Jack City,” “Passenger 57,” “White Men Can’t Jump,” “Major League” and “Mo Better Blues” was close to adding the Miles Davis story to his acting resume. It’s no big secret that a film version on the life of Miles Davis has been around the Hollywood [...]
Miles Davis: A Friend Remembers
Photographer Anthony Barboza shares his memories of working with Miles Davis. Barboza met Miles Davis in 1971. The men would cross paths, both professionally and personally, in the years ahead, eventually becoming close friends. One of many, many great quotes from Barboza about Miles: “The next time I saw Miles was when I was walking [...]
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The Miles Davis Movie: What Should The Movie Title Be?
If you check on IMDB it’s Untitled Miles Davis Biopic. Without knowing anything I can only assume the movie is going to be known as “Miles Davis.” For me, that’s fine. Even “Miles” is just as commanding. Yes, it recalls “Ray,” but that worked out just fine. And then there’s “Bird,” also a great movie [...]
Miles Davis… Online
* Miles Davis reigns supreme in jazz — but at what expense? * We Want Miles: To coincide with 50th anniversary of “Kind of Blue”, and his first performance in France 60 years ago, Paris’s Cité de la Musique pays tribute to this most visionary of jazz musicians. * Too many Miles?: The forward-looking musician [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Herbie Hancock To Score Miles Davis Biopic
Directly below this post we noted a recent interview that Erin Davis (Miles’ son) and Vince Wilburn Jr. (Miles’ nephew) did with YRB Magazine; Wilburn Jr. said that a new writer, Steven Baigelman, is collaborating with Don Cheadle on an updated draft of the script. Big news for followers (me) of the Miles Davis Biopic. [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: New Screenwriter Working With Don Cheadle
Although the Oscar-nominated screenwriting and producing duo Chris Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele are still listed on IMDB as part of the Untitled Miles Davis Biopic, Erin Davis (Davis’ son) and Vince Wilburn Jr. (Davis’ nephew), in a recent interview with YRB Magazine, reveals that a new writer, Steven Vegelman Steven Baigelman, is collaborating with [...]
The Complete Columbia Album Collection: Two Reviews!
LA Times: The set affords listeners a welcome opportunity to explore intriguing but less-celebrated albums such as “Miles in Tokyo,” featuring Davis’ brief pairing with avant-garde saxophonist Sam Rivers in 1964, and the ahead-of-its-time ambient-funk explorations of 1972′s “On the Corner.” New York Magazine: What makes this truly valuable, and not just another marketing trick [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Is Don Cheadle The Right Person To Direct The Movie?
It’s going to be challenging enough for Don Cheadle to transform into the mind, body and soul of one of the most important figures in jazz music history… let alone direct the movie. But I have always felt good about Cheadle as not only the star, but also the director. He’s producing as well, to [...]
Five Days Of Miles Davis Radio On SIRIUS XM
Way back when (May ’09) I said that Sirius XM Needs A Miles Davis Channel. And while a 24-hour channel is still in the planning stages I hope, in the meantime Sirius XM is going to unveil Miles Davis Radio, a limited run channel dedicated to Miles for five days starting this Friday, November 20 [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: The Betty Year
“If Betty were singing today she be something like Madonna, something like Prince, only as a woman. She was the beginning of all that when she was singing as Betty Davis.” ~ Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography I’m wondering if Betty (Mabry) Davis will make an appearance in the Miles Davis biopic… Let the casting [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Should Don Cheadle Be Working On This Pose?
It’s a legitimate question. No denying it’s a classic and unforgettable shot of Miles Davis; the leg slung over the folding chair, the chinos, the cigarette in hand – the contemplation of Lord knows what. So while Cheadle might be tied up these days portraying Col. James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes / War Machine, hopefully he has [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: What Would Miles Think?
I think if Miles Davis were living today the Miles Davis biopic would have already been made. It might not have starred Don Cheadle, but I believe the project would have been pushed through with the help of a big-time producer or director. At what point the idea for a biopic was dreamed up I [...]
Miles Davis, Still Legendary After All These Years
John Bungey of Times Online poses a good question for discussion: Why is Miles Davis so legendary? …why, 18 years on, does the world still care? Miles’s celebrated urge to keep moving — to play music that was one minute beguiling, the next baffling (“It’s my curse”) is one reason. There are albums, such as [...]
Miles Davis / In Suits
Our friend Christian Chensvold at the always top-shelf Ivy-Style takes a fashionable look at the two, glorious decades Miles Davis chose suits as his favored accoutrement. Before things got weird. Chensvold’s excellent article actually appears in the latest issue of the Singapore-based menswear magazine The Rake; the article’s print layout can be seen online here, [...]
