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 [...]
We Want Miles: Miles Davis vs. Jazz
“Piecing together photographs, handwritten scores and biographical musings, We Want Miles (Rizzoli) breaks down the essence of the jazz supremo Miles Davis by charting the seven most important phases in his life. As trite and cliche as it might sounds, Davis was the definition of cool as we know it, and taking a turn through [...]
Jazz Mafia Celebrate Miles Davis With A Birthday Tribute
Jazz Mafia presents a MILES DAVIS Birthday Tribute Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 8:00pm Yoshi’s 1330 Fillmore Street San Francisco, California 94115 8pm: Birth of The Cool 10pm: Electric-Era Miles (Drawing from Miles’ classics ‘In A Silent Way’, ‘Live Evil’, ‘Bitches Brew’ and later gems such as ‘Tutu’) 8pm $18 10pm $10 Both Sets for [...]
Miles Davis Online Turns One Year Old!
Happy Birthday! Miles Davis Online is one year old. First and foremost I want to thank all of you loyal readers who have made this Miles Davis blog what it is. I had already been writing the Miles Davis Movie blog to chronicle the ongoing process of the Miles Davis Biopic. But then I decided [...]
Miles Davis / The Album Covers
* sessions, imports, singles, reissues, compilations, live recordings… ** mostly just album covers i think look really cool…
Celebrate Miles Davis’ 84th Birthday With New Box Set and CD/DVD Releases
Click here for the details. There’s also news of a “unique partnership/collaborative effort between the Miles Davis Estate and Sony Music,” which is featuring a brand new official Miles Davis website. Game on! Look, the estate and Sony has so much material, I hope hope hope they throw all kinds of excellent content online – [...]
The Magic and Mystery of Miles Davis
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts offers the only showing in North America of this exhibition devoted to ‘the Picasso of Jazz’ MONTREAL — According to Miles Davis in his scabrous autobiography, when the trumpeter was invited to a White House dinner in 1987, an older woman asked him what he’d done to merit being [...]
Buddy Gist, Longtime Friend Of Miles Davis, Has Died
Greensboro native Arthur “Buddy” Gist, the longtime friend of jazz great Miles Davis, died Sunday at the Golden Living Center. Gist, 84, had been living there since July, when he suffered a stroke. The jazz enthusiast grew up in the Magnolia House, the spot off Gorrell Street that his mother ran. It was the only [...]
