Miles Davis News

Featured Book Rview: Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs by Phil Freeman

Jan 9, 2008, 17:05 GMT

In time every man and woman will succumb to the notion of what is most essential. The degree of worth is irrelevant to its subject. The topic is amplified in a new book called “Marooned”, which asks twenty music critics which album they would take to a desert island. A sequel to the 1979 book Stranded, the market in taste here does not suffer from variation; its range bounces from Dionne Warwick to Miles Davis, from the Scorpions to Elton John.

 

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Monterey Jazz Festival launches new record label with Concord Music Group

Aug 2, 2007, 23:39 GMT

Celebrate the formation of the Monterey Jazz Festival Records label with its first five releases by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, & Sarah Vaughan in stores August 21st. ... more

Don Cheadle's cinematic tribute to Miles Davis

Mar 15, 2007, 17:13 GMT

Don Cheadle will debut as a director in a feature film about Miles Davis, the legendary jazz trumpeter, Variety reports. He will also star as the innovative jazz icon, who Cheadle says has long fascinated him. ... more

Cheadle to play Miles Davis

Dec 5, 2006, 8:43 GMT

Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle ('Hotel Rwanda') will direct and star in 'Miles Davis.' ... more

Album Review: Chris Botti - 'December'

Nov 28, 2006, 19:37 GMT

Chris Botti is a trumpet player in the tradition of Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis and other great jazz trumpeters. This year he favors us with a collection of Christmas songs for the month of December.  ... more

Album Review: Miles Davis – ‘Cool & Collected’

Oct 13, 2006, 21:40 GMT

Miles Davis (1926-1991) would’ve been 80 this year. March 13, 2006 saw him posthumously induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. To celebrate, Columbia has collected some of Davis’ recordings onto this album. ... more

Miles Davis is still the Icon of Cool with ‘Cool and Collected’

Sep 27, 2006, 17:33 GMT

‘Cool & Collected’ is the first single CD anthology to zero in on a baker’s dozen of the recordings which created the swirling mythos of ‘cool’ that defines Miles, spanning 1956 to 1984, with a new previously unreleased bonus remix track to close the program.  ... more

Davis Lover Accuses Estate Of Banning Biopic

Apr 7, 2005, 13:22 GMT

Miles Davis' former love Jo Gelbard has accused the Miles Davis Estate of refusing permission for a movie biopic about the jazz icon - because they own the rights to his music. ... more