Miles Davis / In Pictures
From everyday i show, by way of This Isn’t Happiness, I am happy to have discovered a marvelous photograph of Miles Davis. Photo via Institut national de l’audiovisuel
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Presents A Tribute To Miles Davis
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will present four colleagues of jazz legend Miles Davis at Orchestra Hall on Fri., Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. in their tribute to his musical legacy with Four Generations of Miles. Each member of this quartet of jazz heavyweights, which includes Sonny Fortune (saxophone), Wallace Roney (trumpet), Jimmy Cobb (drums) and [...]
Miles Davis’ Work To Be Celebrated With Miami Concert
Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County presents Jazz Roots: Celebrating Miles, part of the Larry Rosen Jazz Series in commemoration of Black History Month in February. ‘The program features an all-star lineup of jazz greats and former Miles Davis collaborators paying tribute to one [...]
Miles Davis Arriving In Paris
If they’d let me embed the clip I would have, but my goodness please go enjoy 41 seconds of footage from 1963 of Miles Davis arriving in Paris. Please! VIDEO LINK: Arrivée à Paris de Miles Davis In French: A Paris, arrivée de Miles DAVIS à la gare Saint Lazare accompagné de sa femme. A [...]
Miles Davis And Philip Seymour Hoffman And A Pool In NYC
This is a great story from actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Via ContactMusic.com, here is the breakdown from Hoffman about his encounter with Miles Davis when the jazz legend was swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. The actor recalls, “I was a lifeguard in my early 20s at this place, the Metropolitan Towers… [...]
A Story That Incudes Miles Davis, A Tokyo Airport, John Oates And John Oates’ Mustache
I love Miles Davis. No big surprise there. I also love Hall & Oates. So when I was directed by The Daily Swarm to this New York Magazine article about Daryl Hall that features a segment on John Oates saying goodbye to the famous mustache and bumping into Miles Davis in a Tokyo airport — [...]
Miles Davis Inspires New Dance Project
Carrie Seidman, of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, writes: Ballet icon George Balanchine’s dictate that one should “see the music, hear the dance” will play out creatively this weekend when Fuzión Dance Artists and Jazz Juvenocracy combine forces to present “The Miles Project,” a tribute to jazz musician Miles Davis. The respected group of six young local [...]
Chicago Gets Ready For Miles Davis Festival
Chicago will mark the 85th anniversary of the birth of Illinois-born Miles Davis with a namesake festival running Jan. 21 through April 16 at the Auditorium Theatre and various jazz clubs and institutions throughout the city. That’s a 4-month celebration of Miles Davis. That’s what I’m talking about. Among the highlights of the Miles Davis [...]
Miles Davis / In Pictures
A recent Miles Davis surf through Flickr led me to this very nice photo from Kenichi Matsumoto. His gallery of photos is totally worth checking out.
The Miles Davis Online Interview: Heath Killen
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