The Miles Davis Online Interview: Paul Slaughter
(Artist Series, Volume 10) * This is a re-post of an interview I did last year with the great Paul Slaughter. I’m delighted to post this conversation I had recently with the talented photographer Paul Slaughter. A former disc jockey at a Los Angeles jazz station in the ‘60s, Paul went on to photograph beautiful [...]
A Miles Davis Typeface
Xavier Encinas, over at the always enjoyable Swiss Legacy blog, directs us to Paris-based design studio WA75′s excellent typeface called Miles Grotesk. The graphic design was created for the recent We Want Miles exhibition presented at the Cité de la Musique, which was open from October 2009 to January 2010. The exhibit has since moved [...]
School Spirit: Miles Davis Blue Notes
Miles Davis School Blue Notes (East Saint Louis, Illinois)
The Miles Davis Movie: Tagline, Or No Tagline?
I love teaser posters. I love movie posters in general (the good ones), but something about the poster before the poster gets me jazzed about an upcoming movie I want to see. It’s an art, for sure, and the better movie posters are able to strike the right balance of visual pizazz and substance – [...]
Because Your iPod Should Look Cool!
The Nike Zoom Kobe V – Miles Davis Edition
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Miles Davis / In Pictures
Miles Davis, New York 1971 Photo: Anthony Barboza
Miles Davis Is In Your Living Room
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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, [...]
Miles Davis Is Hell-Bent For Leather (The Hernando Reinoso Connection)
I’m Learning To Share! put together a terrific post about an article from the March 1970 issue of Show magazine. It focuses on a few L.A. and NYC fashion designers known for outfitting some of the more flamboyant pop stars of the day. There are a lot of great photos to check out – especially [...]
Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead at the Hollywood Bowl
Miles Davis / Gil Evans: Still Ahead Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 8:00 PM Via All About Jazz: The 2009 Jazz series at the Hollywood Bowl continues on Wednesday, August 5, at 8pm, with Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Still Ahead, featuring soloists Terence Blanchard, Jimmy Cobb, Peter Erskine, Howard Johnson, Christian McBride and Nicholas Payton, backed by [...]
Miles Davis Is A Warlord Of The Weejuns
Over at MDO favorite Ivy Style, Christian Chensvold directs our attention to Esquire jazz and style writer George Frazier’s 1965 essay he wrote for the liner notes of the album “Miles Davis’ Greatest Hits.” It’s a terrific essay, and if you have any interest in Davis’ wardrobe and his thoughts on style (very particular about [...]
Miles Davis Online Interview w/ Photographer Jamie Parslow
(Artist Series, Volume 4) I had an instant reaction to Jamie Parslow’s photography: the work is honest, alluring and immediate. In my search for Miles Davis art and photography, I found Parslow and with him not only three, marvelous photographs of the jazz legend, but a lovely assortment of photographs taken throughout a long career; [...]
Talkin’ Miles: ’59, Trane & Carnegie Hall
“With the reissue of landmark jazz albums Kind of Blue and Time Out from 50 years ago, it’s hard not to feel a little nostalgic.” Has it been all downhill for jazz since 1959? J.D. Considine starts the conversation. Miles of John Coltrane — good spot to read about “original issues on which Coltrane plays [...]
Miles Davis, Lover Of Fast Cars
During a search for All Things Miles Davis (our motto around here), I stumbled by Luxist and found a photo of a red, Lamborghini Miura – one of Miles’ favorites. Yes, Miles Davis loved his flashy cars. Chris Weige, formerly of Downbeat Magazine, provides a teriffic history lesson about Miles’ affinity for fast cars… and [...]
