Miles Davis Brand Gets Boost With New Products
Goldmine magazine is featuring an article about the latest Miles Davis-related products. Writer Chris M. Junior catches up with Vince Wilburn Jr., a Davis nephew, and Erin Davis, son of the late jazz icon, who both oversee Miles Davis Properties with Cheryl Davis, daughter of Miles. Who we do not see mentioned is Darryl Porter, [...]
Sonny Rollins Receives Miles Davis Award At Montreal Jazz Festival
The Montreal Jazz Festival bestowed awards on three of the biggest names in jazz over the weekend, including Sonny Rollins, who won the Miles Davis Award. The tenor sax player, a legend on the jazz scene for five decades, was presented with the award Sunday ahead of his concert at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Nicknamed the Saxophone [...]
Nat Hentoff Reflects On Miles Davis, Sixty Years On The Jazz Scene
“Much of Hentoff’s attention since 2000 has focused on the greats of the past. There is little space in the collection for jazz’s modern practitioners and what Hentoff makes of them must therefore be a matter of speculation. There are a few portraits of modern jazz musicians such as saxophonist and clarinetist Anat Cohen and [...]
Here’s Hoping New Season Of Mad Men Features A Miles Davis Song (Or Two)
The award-winning Mad Men returns for its fourth season Jul. 25. There’s even a very nice season 4 promo poster (above) making the rounds today. As we excitedly prepare for the return of Mad Men, we wonder: will the music of Miles Davis be making an appearance at some point during the new season? When [...]
New Miles Davis Recording Streaming Free Online
All About Jazz reports that Wolfgangsvault.com has released a never-before-heard audio recording of Miles Davis at the Fillmore West, October 15, 1970. The Bill Graham produced concert features “Honkytonk,” “What I Say,” “Sanctuary,” “Yesternow,” “Bitches Brew,” and “Funky Tonk.” The vintage concert, with full context of the show’s importance, is available for free streaming here.
A Very Large Miles Davis Box Set Indeed
How much musical weight do you give to trumpeter Miles Davis’ 30 years of recordings for Columbia? Everyone may have a different answer, depending on the stylistic preferences of the listener, since Davis was always a ground-breaker in pushing style and sound. While it clearly doesn’t include everything he recorded for the label, Columbia/Legacy this [...]
Hey, What’s Don Cheadle Doing?*
Don Cheadle, an internationally respected actor, humanitarian, environmentalist – and the man with the awesome responsibility of portraying jazz legend Miles Davis in the biopic that might be released in 2013 – was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme on June 5, World Environment Day. The designation was announced in Volcanoes National [...]
Dogfish Head Bitches Brew Honors Miles Davis
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has announced the release of Bitches Brew to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary jazz-funk-rock-fusion masterpiece Bitches Brew by jazz legend Miles Davis. Delaware’s Dogfish Head Craft Brewery has created its own Bitches Brew – a bold, dark beer that’s a fusion of three threads imperial stout and one thread [...]
French Glamour Comes To Hong Kong, Miles Davis Included
The festival-within-a-festival, “Femmes Femmes Femmes: Imagination of Women in French Cinema,” has a specific focus on the legendary actress Jeanne Moreau, who will be making a personal appearance at the gala opening on June 3. Many of Ms. Moreau’s classics, like François Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim,” will be shown — but the absolutely must-see film [...]
How Miles Davis Helped The Byrds
Though he helped provide a new direction for rock in the mid-60s, singer and songwriter Roger McGuinn has always considered himself first and foremost a folk musician. His brilliant 12-string Rickenbacker guitar style — a mix of rippling chordal flurries and the innovative atonality normally associated with avant-garde jazz musicians — coupled with soaring leads [...]
Miles Davis Tribute Concert In Chicago
It’s practically becoming a cultural rite in Chicago: the annual Memorial Day celebration of Miles Davis’ birthday, led by the brilliant Chicago pianist Robert Irving III. Irving, who worked closely with Davis from 1979 to 1988, will preside over the third annual event at 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Velvet Lounge. (Davis would have turned [...]
Stories To Tell: Photographer and Writer To Discuss Miles Davis
Writer Quincy Troupe and photographer Anthony Barboza will recount stories about Miles Davis starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday night in a salon appearance titled: “A Listening Party: Anthony Barboza & Quincy Troupe, Celebrating Miles Davis on His Birthday, Sharing Stories About a Legend. The brainchild of Troupe’s wife, Margaret Porter Troupe, the salon will be [...]
Get Your Miles Davis Music Discounts At Amie Street
To help celebrate the birthday of Miles Davis this week, Amie Street is offering 10 Miles Davis album downloads for $5 each. Miles Davis Discounts | Amie Street.
Miles Davis Featured In Barneys Venture With Sony On Rockstar Tees
“Goodness knows a T-shirt collaboration is nothing new, but Barneys latest line of Archive 1887 rock & roll tees, created in conjunction with Sony Music, features never-before-seen artwork and rare photos of the label’s acts as far back as1887. And, as a bonus, each shirt has a dedicated playlist. “Sony contributed its extensive library of [...]
Miles Davis Inspires New College Scholarship
ALTON — “The Alton Museum of History and Art began accepting applications for a new scholarship related to native son Miles Davis. The Miles Davis Scholarship in the amount of $250 is available to every graduating high school senior who wants to pursue a post-secondary degree — not just music or art majors — from [...]
