| 单词 | Miles Davis |
| 例句 | His postcard of Miles Davis wearing the bug-eyed glasses was pinned to the bulletin board above his desk. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It could have been straight out of Fred’s Miles Davis album, where the musicians made sounds that had never been made by instruments before. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There were his favorite classic-rock albums, but near the end was the Miles Davis album that Fred bought in Harvard Square, with the storm brewing on the cover. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Genie didn’t know who Miles Davis was, but the people at the table sure did. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Dad is partial to jazz, and every chance he gets, he winks at me, takes out Mom’s Mozart disc, then pops in a CD of Miles Davis or Woody Herman. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Bess and which have been covered uncomplainingly by most of the great African- American recording artists of the twentieth century, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis and Aretha Franklin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Not me. I wasn’t Mike’s dentist. A buddy of mine was. I traded him for a Miles Davis,” Teeth Man said. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then I can block the door and settle into a big soft chair and listen to Miles Davis while my feet thaw out. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled out a close-up of Miles Davis, wearing some crazy glasses. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I popped the Miles Davis CD into my Discman and leaned against the door. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z That's exactly what Miles Davis said to Clive Davis at Columbia Records—more than 40 years ago. 2009-12-10T17:54:00Z He moved to the United States in 1952 and worked with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and Quincy Jones, as well as Stevie Wonder and Pat Metheny, among many others. Belgian jazz musician Thielemans dies aged 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “Blue,” its much talked about new album, is an attempt at a note-for-note re-creation of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue.” Jazz Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Plenty has been made of his influence on Miles Davis, who declared Jamal his favorite piano player. A Pair of Ahmad Jamal Live Albums Capture an Innovator in His Prime 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z He teamed with the bassist Ron Carter and the drummer Tony Williams, alumni of the Miles Davis Quintet, to form the Great Jazz Trio in 1976. Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 2010-05-17T15:40:00Z He recounts walking down the street with Miles Davis and seeing a woman stumble. A Case for the New Jazz Sound That Will Inspire Playlists 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z She won a Grammy Award in 1986 for her design of Miles Davis’s album “Tutu,” whose cover is dominated by an Irving Penn photograph of Mr. Davis, shot in extreme close-up and starkly lighted. Eiko Ishioka, Designer, Dies at 73 2012-01-26T18:29:23Z There are aspects of Mr. Vu’s tone that suggest the softer side of Miles Davis, or the moody poise of a Davis emulator like Mark Isham. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z At Jazz Standard, the group will play some of those originals, as well as its versions of pieces by Miles Davis, the collective’s 2016 honoree. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z They deal with their subjects — Miles Davis and Chet Baker, in “Miles Ahead” and “Born to Be Blue” — with varying degrees of success. Popcast: Miles Davis and Chet Baker, Artists in Exile 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Similarly vibrant paintings and lithographs dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter or Mary Lou Williams use geometric patterns and bright, acid color to pay homage to avant-garde and experimental black musicians. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Correction: December 22, 2011 An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of the jazz musician Miles Davis. ArtsBeat Blog: Steve Jobs to Receive a Grammy 2011-12-22T16:55:55Z And Miles Davis, whose tailor was also in the building, would pop in from time to time. A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The Seals & Croft hit "Diamond Girl" is tinged with Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." John Pizzarelli talks Beatles and bop before Seattle appearance 2012-07-18T22:10:05Z A classical prodigy who turned to jazz, he was playing with Donald Byrd and Miles Davis when barely out of his teens. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z His company developed and sold beautifully made computers and devices while name-checking, in its advertising, artists like Pablo Picasso, Alfred Hitchcock, Ansel Adams, and Miles Davis. Was Steve Jobs an Artist? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z A young Miles Davis, not yet 23, blasting forth with enough squiggly canned heat on the trumpet to leave the announcer’s words sounding lifeless, irrelevant. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z He produced the Miles Davis "Birth of the Cool" sessions and Harry Belafonte's first singles. Jazz, TV composer Pete Rugolo dies at 95 2011-10-18T15:27:58Z The brilliant drummer in that quartet, Jack DeJohnette, then helped Miles Davis push into rock and funk. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Now out of print, it set an imposingly high bar for any excavation of unheard Miles Davis music. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z Its aesthetic points toward Wayne Shorter, particularly his writing for the Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s: sleek, enigmatic post-bop, more suggestive than demonstrative. Music Review: Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook Up at Jazz Gallery 2010-04-30T20:54:00Z That evening he would perform at a gala for the David Lynch Foundation, along with the pianist Herbie Hancock, his former partner in the Miles Davis Quintet. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z Another hit among dozens over the decades was Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, or Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle with a soundtrack of the same name by jazz artist Miles Davis. French actress Jeanne Moreau dies at 89 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z When Miles Davis' innovative drummer, Williams, died tragically after routine surgery in 1997, he was flowering as a composer and arranger. Tony Williams Tribute Band and Vijay Iyer rock Jazz Alley 2011-02-03T20:42:03Z "I wanted to bring Gil's name back into the limelight ... and show how much more there was to him than those amazing records he did with Miles Davis." Grammy nominee unearths hidden Gil Evans treasures 2013-02-06T14:29:08Z While studying classical trumpet at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he met Miles Davis, one of his chief influences. In the Cookers, collective centuries of heat 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Even as black musical stars such as Miles Davis and Nina Simone made popular recordings of the opera's songs, criticism from other artists and intellectuals intensified in the 1950s and 1960s. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z Miles Davis: The Sorcerer at 90,” in the Rose Theater through Saturday, will feature new arrangements by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Jazz Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Well-known artists like Miles Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol appeared in advertisements, linking creative iconography to the Gap heritage. Was the Gap Ever Cool? A Look at 50 Years in Denim and Khaki 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z His explorations of sound drew the attention of one of jazz's legendary minds, Miles Davis. Innovative blues, jazz guitarist Pete Cosey dies 2012-06-10T02:56:08Z When Miles Davis died 25 years ago, he left behind a peerless body of work, a complicated legend and a formidable archival trove. What Would Miles Davis Do? Robert Glasper Has an Idea 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z This week in New York there are or have been concerts paying homage to or performing the repertory of: Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Music Review: School?s in Session, but Don?t You Dare Take Notes 2011-05-20T03:02:48Z At one time, when he was in college in the 1960s, Nakamura said he considered pursuing a career as a musician, idolizing bassist Ron Carter and listening to Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock albums. Dining with Infiniti Design Director Shiro Nakamura 2011-08-20T18:44:26Z “It was authentic. It was fresh,” said Ken Cervenka, a trumpeter who teaches “The Music of Miles Davis” and leads several Miles Davis ensembles at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. ‘Kind of Blue’ drummer still keeping time as album turns 60 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z By the end of his career, he’d worked with artists as diverse as Guns N’ Roses and Miles Davis. Brandi Carlile prepares for ‘emotional’ run with Seattle Symphony 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Man," says Miles Davis, "I haven't been sketching in so long. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z “Moon Talk” is a funk track with echoes of Miles Davis’s “On the Corner” and a jabbing, wriggling, sliding, squealing guitar lead that’s anything but mellow with age. SZA and Phoebe Bridgers’s Team-Up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It draws ideas not just from Miles Davis of the ’60s and ’70s and Charlie Parker of the ’40s, but from West African rhythmic practices and even heartbeat patterns, the oldest music in the world. Popcast: Parsing Steve Coleman's Genius 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z This Italian troupe kicks things off with “We Want Miles, in a Silent Way,” which draws inspiration from three albums by Miles Davis that span more than a decade. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z One of the world's finest drummers, Reid played on Dancing in the Street aged 16 and later with James Brown, Sun Ra, Miles Davis and Fela Kuti. When the music fades: US musicians' healthcare crisis 2010-09-16T21:45:00Z There’s a story about how Miles Davis was hanging out with the Blue Note musicians, though before “Birth of the Cool.” The Making of Black Ivy Style 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Tyson has been married once, to the musician Miles Davis, but she is famously reticent on the subject. Cicely Tyson: A pioneer stretches her acting muscles in a new career chapter 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Berkowitz, a Grammy-winning producer, over the years has helped resurrect essential recordings by Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, the Beatles and dozens of others. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Here are a couple more: Miles Davis once told me that he yearned to record an interpretation of “Tosca” with the great arranger Gil Evans. L.A. Opera's 'Tosca': No gimmicks, just some powerhouse singing 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald made bossa-inspired recordings. 'The Girl from Ipanema' turns 50 2012-07-20T16:27:09Z In later years, Miles Davis and Lee Morgan swung by to play. Howard Rumsey, bass player who built a center of West Coast jazz, dies at 97 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Former Miles Davis guitarist Mike Stern leads a formidable fusion band to play his current Big Neighbourhood repertoire. This week's new live music 2011-03-19T00:06:11Z But for now, it’s a little like Miles Davis pinning down modal jazz: Good for him, and good for my ears, but you can’t explain it to me. Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z It led, Ms. Davis said, to a song title Miles Davis would release years later: “Back Seat Betty.” Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Cosby was a fan of jazz when young, especially of Miles Davis, and he could play the drums. Bill Cosby, in Mark Whitaker’s New Biography 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Films about trumpeters Miles Davis and Chet Baker have come out recently to good reviews. To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “If you ever heard Miles Davis talk, I’m no different than Miles,” Mr. Glasper said, sipping a cocktail in his Blue Note dressing room earlier this month. A Month of Robert Glasper’s Experiments at the Blue Note 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z As with the classic Miles Davis Quintet of the 1960s, the instruments rise and fall in varying combinations, with Douglas and Lovano often soloing simultaneously and sympathetically. Acclaimed jazz journeymen Lovano and Douglas grace Earshot jazz fest 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The number of documentaries exclusively devoted to, or featuring, Miles Davis is not quite sufficient to constitute a subgenre. ‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ Review: A Complicated Artist 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z A brave stance, especially when you consider her old man was Miles Davis. Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z And then, as Miles Davis’s “Flamenco Sketches” fades in and the other dancers gradually back away, Mr. Glover’s solo blossoms — adding first a heel, then the other foot — into a dance of intense beauty. Dance Review: Savion Glover’s New Show at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-19T20:55:59Z I remember my grandmother and mother and older family members would talk about only how she had once been married to legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. ‘I didn’t just fade off the planet.’ Reconnecting with ’70s funk queen Betty Davis 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Closer to the claustrophobic end, the guitarist Nir Felder used some of the same models — principally Miles Davis — in his band, Big Heat. Music: Undead Jazzfest Roams the West Village 2010-06-14T22:14:00Z A decade later, in 1992, in a similar fashion, he created one of his most striking pieces, “Homecoming: For Miles,” after the jazz musician Miles Davis. Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The feeling — as with Miles Davis, as with Prince — is of a bandleader’s constant, watchful manipulation, tension and release for maximum thrills. Music Review: Veterans With Quartets, Stretching Out in Sound 2011-02-27T23:05:32Z In a similar vein, Miles Davis said, “It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you don’t play.” How the Silence Makes the Music 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970. 1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play? 2013-05-10T06:32:08Z He can be heard on the Miles Davis albums “Agharta,” “Pangaea,” “Get Up With It” and “Dark Magus,” some of the most experimental and confrontational records of Davis’s career. Pete Cosey, Guitarist With Miles Davis, Dies at 68 2012-06-06T17:54:46Z There is also a golden spinning disco ball, “Nefertiti — Miles Davis,” in the shape of the Egyptian queen. Beyond Beyoncé Fame, Awol Erizku Expands What Black Art Can Be 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “Amazing Grace” and a brass arrangement of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio” are in the band book, alongside works by Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, Pete Seeger and more. “I’ll be there”: Charlie Haden was the Tom Joad of jazz, and his Liberation Music Orchestra lives on 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z In his 1989 autobiography, Miles Davis wrote about his relationship with the younger woman he married after divorcing his third wife, actress Cicely Tyson. ‘I didn’t just fade off the planet.’ Reconnecting with ’70s funk queen Betty Davis 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z There are images of famous jazz musicians, among them Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln and Miles Davis. Black Can Be Even More Beautiful 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z As legend has it, Miles Davis assembled a super group of jazz musicians in a New York studio and recorded a bunch of songs without retakes. ‘Kind of Blue’ drummer still keeping time as album turns 60 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z I don't see another Miles Davis on the horizon, or another Coltrane. Manfred Eicher: the sound man 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Mr. Evans made eight albums with the group; his last was “Blue,” an arduous, note-for-note re-creation of the hallowed Miles Davis album “Kind of Blue.” With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z This 1958 debut feature from Louis Malle is also laced with the self-consciousness of the then-budding French New Wave, with a discursive plot, offhand references to French colonialism and a stylish Miles Davis score. Movie Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z If a black-and-white melodrama isn’t up your alley, enjoy the timeless score by Miles Davis. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘A Quiet Place’ and ‘The Endless’ 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Only the most important artists whose careers encompassed multiple, distinct styles - most prominently Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington - merit more than one track. Review: Smithsonian Anthology a wide overview 2011-04-01T21:16:04Z I said, “If we’re gonna do this, I don’t want to be coy. Let’s go all the way and do something that feels like Miles Davis.” Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z But her influence on Miles Davis and the future of jazz lasted far longer. Betty Davis, hard funk pioneer, dead at 77 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “I’m obviously influenced by Miles Davis — even just the psyche of how he thinks about music,” Mr. Glasper said. What Would Miles Davis Do? Robert Glasper Has an Idea 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The band focuses here on two of the best-known albums to feature Evans’s arrangements; Terell Stafford stands in for Miles Davis on trumpet. Jazz Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The other presence is the towering trumpeter Miles Davis, the laconic voice of a jazz vanguard that succeeded Armstrong. Theater Review: Louis Armstrong Reminisces in ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf’ 2014-03-21T00:30:14Z When Miles Davis, the great jazz trumpeter, was searching for a funkier and more contemporary sound in the early 1970s, Mr. Dupree was among the musicians he used on his album “Get Up With It.” Cornell Dupree, Guitarist and Sideman to the Stars, Dies at 68 2011-05-15T06:23:01Z Heyward opened his program with Montgomery’s “Records of a Vanishing City,” a tone poem that swirled with the music — most conspicuously, Miles Davis — that she heard growing up on the Lower East Side. Mostly Mozart’s Repertoire Broadens With Its Audience 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Elling can reveal such unexpected undercurrents in a song that it's tempting to wish he had more of Miles Davis's determination to just let the music talk. Kurt Elling – review 2013-04-17T16:32:34Z After a while, the dense thicket recalled nothing so much as the intensity and dark focus of the classic Miles Davis recording, “In Person: Live at the Black Hawk.” Sound Prints truly suprise and delight at Town Hall | Concert preview 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z On cue, the fastest, most unpredictable Miles Davis live cut began to play. Panic! At the vasectomy table 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Last year, the group released a disc interrogating the songbook of Miles Davis, and at Jazz Standard, it focused on those arrangements. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Nile Rodgers: 'Miles Davis was the single greatest musical genius that ever lived, and I passed up the chance to work with him.' Nile Rodgers: my greatest mistake 2012-05-18T22:00:51Z Beyond a common repertory, with songs by the likes of Monk and Miles Davis, they had common experience, some of it abidingly deep. Music Review: Ad Hoc Quartet With Common Roots 2010-08-29T21:38:00Z This is a musical practice that has been very important to me as a composer, ever since I was a kid and buying 78-r.p.m. records by Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.” The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z No jazz musician has been more diligently organized or effectively monetized in the afterlife than Miles Davis, who died in 1991 on the cusp of the compact-disc reissue boom. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z Me, I was listening to the live band segue from Miles Davis to salsa, and when I closed my eyes a pleasant feeling welled up. Lost in Tangier 2010-09-11T09:00:00Z This has been the centenary year of the birth of Gil Evans, the composing genius and orchestral alter ego to Miles Davis. Mike Gibbs Band – review 2012-12-13T12:28:08Z At the start of Stanley Nelson’s new documentary, “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” currently playing in theaters, Davis is quoted describing music as “like a curse” for him. What ‘Rubberband’ Reveals About Miles Davis’s Final Act 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Fans at "The Lab," formerly known as Miles Davis Hall, cheered his "Establishment Blues" and "Inner City Blues," emblematic of the turbulent early 1970s and grimy ghetto life, and the saucy "I Wonder." 'Sugar Man' Rodriguez opens Montreux Jazz Festival 2013-07-05T00:13:21Z Then, later in high school with Bill Evans and Miles Davis, and I got deep into jazz, and that became my focus for awhile. "Come Away With Me" at 20: Norah Jones reflects on "hopeful, romantic" record but won't call it jazz 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Another crucial lesson came from listening to the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s, one of the first bands to truly destabilize rhythm in a post-bop context. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Miles Davis's Blue in Green may be the ultimate example of melancholic euphoria. Readers recommend: Songs about euphoria 2010-08-19T21:37:00Z “It was a mixture of terrible Brazilian pop music and some old American folk music,” he said, “and some jazz, like Miles Davis.” Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Cheadle, who also plays piano, saxophone and drums, is developing a movie about Miles Davis. Television: ?House of Lies,? Comedy About Consultants With Don Cheadle 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z That led in turn to “Four,” a standard made famous by Miles Davis, and then “Bells,” the incantatory anthem by Albert Ayler. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Everything is, in Miles Davis’s terms, kind of blue. Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z After four years in the Miles Davis Quintet, Mr. Coltrane had broken a hole in the parachute and was hurtling somewhere new at terminal speeds. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Gil Evans with Miles Davis, with whom he recorded three classic jazz albums. Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 2012-11-07T18:07:54Z The producer Quincy Jones, who directed the festival in previous years, will lead a concert honoring Miles Davis on July 13, with Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller and Wayne Shorter. ArtsBeat: Montreux Jazz Festival Announces Lineup 2011-04-13T20:57:39Z And in more self-assured company he knows how to get away with tackling “Trane’s Blues” and “If I Were a Bell” in the exact arrangements that Miles Davis recorded. Music Review: Jimmy Cobb Expands His Act at Village Vanguard 2013-08-22T21:37:37Z Hip-hop and folk meet in a new wave of protest music Poliça – review Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Hip-hop and folk meet in a new wave of protest music 2012-11-06T15:45:00Z Swiss-born Nobs, 76, launched the summer festival in 1967 while working at the Swiss resort's tourism office, attracting some of the world's greatest stars, including Miles Davis, Ray Charles and Prince, to perform there. Montreux Jazz Festival founder dies after ski accident 2013-01-11T07:29:12Z Very few people knew a lot about Miles Davis, but for those who do know then it’s wall to wall, the deep tracks of Miles Davis stuff. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z While his nominal inspiration was the sculptures of Auguste Rodin, the musical influences are at least as apparent — particularly the 1970s fusion records of Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z "They are improvising with each other in the same ways as classic jazz bands like Coltrane and Miles Davis. They are masters of what they do." Single Wing Turquoise Bird flashes back to its '60s light shows 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Shorter joined the second Miles Davis Quintet in 1964, after deflecting Davis’s overtures for several years out of loyalty to Blakey. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z He even persuaded George, his older brother, to sign Miles Davis. Lens Blog: Keeping Jazz’s Rhythm With a Shutter 2014-02-24T17:47:00Z If a musician such as Miles Davis or Bob Dylan goes through several incarnations over the course of a lifetime, that becomes his signature, with the implication that most people just don't do this. Hank Jones: A Legendary Work Ethic 2010-05-18T17:21:00Z He was a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Andrew Mueller One of the most notorious anecdotes in jazz concerns how Miles Davis was beaten up by a police officer outside a nightclub. Tonight's TV highlights: Asian Gracefully 2011-03-04T00:05:02Z “He comes in, he’s tuning my drums and he goes, ‘Hey, man, have you ever thought about playing Miles Davis?’ In portraying jazzman Miles Davis, Don Cheadle took his cues from his subject 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Their breakout performance on the show earned them a recording deal with Alan Douglas, a music producer who worked with Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix. Rap’s Radical First Act 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Sometimes that work has been handled lovingly and lavishly, as with Miles Davis’s Columbia recordings, which have been repackaged in a series of highly curated boxed sets. The Unique Problem Posed by Prince’s Unreleased Songs 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The classic orchestral jazz of Miles Davis and Gil Evans reworked by revered UK jazz composer Gibbs and a premier-league band. This week's cultural highlights: The Recruiting Officer and Picasso 2012-02-12T17:51:27Z Nevertheless, as part of the citywide Miles Davis Festival, nine Chicago musicians are going to spend four nights reviving – and reimagining – the landmark work at the Jazz Showcase, beginning Thursday. Miles Davis' 'Birth of the Cool' heats up again 2011-03-07T15:00:00Z In the US, Miles Davis was bringing in elements of rock music. Old music: The Graham Collier Sextet – Lullaby for a Lonely Child 2012-06-18T08:37:56Z Wade Madsen's "Unlucky," set to music by Miles Davis, is one of the latter. 'Chop Shop' festival assembles dance performances on the Eastside 2011-02-10T21:58:04Z Terry inspired Miles Davis and played in the Count Basie and Duke Ellington big bands. Blakey, Hampton, Terry enter NYC Jazz Hall of Fame 2013-06-06T00:25:08Z Mike, the only son of well-off New York parents, played a two-week stint with a Miles Davis band in 1949, when he was 19 and still a student at the University of Miami. Mike Zwerin obituary 2010-04-18T18:07:00Z He wanted it to sound like something recorded in hallowed acoustic spaces like Columbia and Capitol Studios, where musicians like Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra recorded classic albums. Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z He performed on the groundbreaking “Birth of the Cool” recordings with Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan in the late 1940s. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z During this period, he completed several written works, including the novel “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and hosted leading artistic figures like Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis. James Baldwin’s Former Home in France Is Set to Be Demolished 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z The drummer Jimmy Cobb, 84, is a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and the last remaining musician to have played on “Kind of Blue,” the epochal Miles Davis album from 1959. Music Review: Jimmy Cobb Expands His Act at Village Vanguard 2013-08-22T21:37:37Z The concert, which ran twice nightly, was part of the Miles & ’Trane Festival, a shared 90th-birthday tribute to Coltrane and Miles Davis, presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall. Review: In the Sanctuary of ‘The Spiritual Side of Coltrane’ 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Over the years, a roll-call of jazz legends, including Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, to name but a few, have graced the stages. All that jazz 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “Miles Davis — what do you know about him? Who is he?” Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Originally composed for the Ensemble Modern, and played in Paris by the Ensemble Intercontemporain , it’s an often frenzied, powerful piece in which the influences of Gershwin, Bernstein, Miles Davis and Stravinsky are clear. Dance Review: Echoing the Tones of Francis Bacon 2011-07-11T22:23:00Z But the music of “Porgy and Bess” only grew in popularity, as generations of jazz pioneers, including Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis, put their own stamps on the songs. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “Miles Davis makes you more of an artist. To help not take the road most traveled, take the other road. I always feel like he’s telling me, ‘Trust your instinct and not try to please. Hear 8 Pieces of Music That Smartened Up ‘Latin History for Morons’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Check out Miles Davis wailing on his version at the Munich Philharmonic in 1988. 25 of the most covered songs in music history 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z “Junior” was Miles Davis nickname when he first got to the town. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Pizarnik’s verse, like Miles Davis’s trumpet playing, was known for its strategic use of silence and restraint. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “He wanted to be Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis,” she said. Retired AP investigative reporter Pete Yost dies at age 73 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z In 1967, he dropped out and hitchhiked to New York — where he visited museums and went to jazz concerts, even catching a gig by Miles Davis. Photography's best-kept secret: How Anthony Hernandez put a distinctly Los Angeles lens on picture-making 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z He also wrote words: He conducted a seminal interview with Miles Davis and contributed record reviews to the short-lived quarterly Jazz magazine in the 1970s. Sy Johnson, Arranger Who Worked Closely With Mingus, Dies at 92 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z I planned to cruise along scenic byways to a soundtrack of Bob Dylan, Miles Davis and Journey. Road Trips are Great. Except for the Driving. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. DeJohnette went on to work with the saxophonist Charles Lloyd and the trumpeter Miles Davis, among many others, and established his own admirable track record as a leader. Review: Spontaneous Invention From the Jack DeJohnette Trio 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Working with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea — all the greats that I grew up listening to. Chaka Khan on Artistic Freedom, Her Side Hustles and Joni Mitchell 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Now, though, in the velvety dusk light, the sound of Miles Davis’s ethereal trumpet fills the air, and the woman begins swaying, taking off her shirt. Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z When Kind of Blue was first released on CD it received ecstatic reviews despite the fact that Miles Davis' trumpet was at the wrong speed on half the tracks. Robert Johnson revelation tells us to put the brakes on the blues 2010-05-27T09:56:00Z What cinched the impression was the arrival of “The Genius of Miles Davis,” encompassing all of Davis’s output for Columbia. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z By the last chorus, he has drifted into uncharted territory, playing in a modal style that would become popular only when Miles Davis recorded “Kind of Blue” in 1959. National Jazz Museum Acquires Savory Collection 2010-08-16T19:08:00Z The drummer Lenny White says, “Miles Davis wore slick clothes, drove fast cars, all the women, and everything. We didn’t just want to play with Miles Davis, we wanted to be Miles Davis.” Review: “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” and the Problem of the Archive 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Miles Davis was signed to Columbia Records on the strength of his inspired playing at the 1955 festival. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Miles Davis’s so-called second great quintet — for which Shorter was the primary composer — quite distinctly falls into this composition, with the trumpeter acting as if he’s just remembered the melody as he goes along. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Roney, a virtuoso trumpeter, was a leading voice among the Young Lions of the 1980s and ’90s, and the only trumpet player to earn an apprenticeship with Miles Davis. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “She was singing blues but also Miles Davis, lots of different music, and I didn’t know how to sit inside it,” he says. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Happenstance helped propel his career: As a teenager he was performing on a local television show in Philadelphia when Miles Davis was the featured guest. Joey DeFrancesco, Reigning King of the Jazz Organ, Dies at 51 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z A few years later, in his electric band, he was into the sound world of early-70s Miles Davis. Masabumi Kikuchi Finds New Direction With ?Sunrise? 2012-03-25T01:43:04Z He was best known for the music to “Schoolhouse Rock,” but his compositions also appeared on recordings by the likes of Miles Davis and Blossom Dearie. National Endowment for the Arts Names New Class of Jazz Masters 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Sarah Vaughan, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, Richard Pryor and plenty of other actors, musicians and comedians developed broad and substantial followings decades before we elected a black president. The unbearable whiteness of the Letterman farewells: Let this truly be the end of a show-business era 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Thompson also plays a third character, Miles Davis, a haughty hipster who is almost a cartoon. Theater review: 'Satchmo at the Waldorf' at the Wallis Annenberg Center 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Mike Stern All Over the Place Heads Up Records Former Miles Davis guitarist Mike Stern takes an all-embracing approach here, mixing up funk, blues, African music, soul-, bebop and ballads. Mike Stern: All Over the Place – review 2012-07-26T21:29:02Z Each organization, said Batterson, saw the Miles Davis Festival as a way of advancing particular goals. Festival to celebrate Miles Davis 2011-01-12T06:00:00Z There are some usual suspects: Miles Davis’s book with Quincy Troupe, Charles Mingus’s “Beneath the Underdog.” Questlove: By the Book 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Swiss-born Claude Nobs, 76, launched the summer festival in 1967 while working at the Swiss resort's tourism office, attracting some of the world's biggest stars, including Miles Davis, Ray Charles and Prince, to perform there. Montreux jazz festival founder Claude Nobs dies after skiing accident 2013-01-11T08:47:32Z While her parents loved the cool of Miles Davis, and her older sisters were drawn to the antisocial force of heavy metal, Ms. Petras preferred the gleaming sheen and universal allure of pop. Kim Petras Just Wants to Be a Pop Star 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z In 1963, Hancock joined the Miles Davis Quintet, one of the great jazz ensembles. Joel, Santana to receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-09-12T16:31:51Z So you'd think musicians might be wary of performing Miles Davis' "Birth of the Cool" in concert. Miles Davis' 'Birth of the Cool' heats up again 2011-03-07T15:00:00Z Later there were exhibitions of his work; a large-format book, The Art of Miles Davis, was published a few months before his death in 1991. Art ? Miles Davis's last addiction 2010-12-09T22:28:00Z His phrasing attests to some close study of Miles Davis and Clifford Brown, but avoids outright imitation. New Music: Fountains of Wayne, Now With Less Smirking 2011-08-01T23:00:34Z “Oh, it will never be like it was when Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk were around.” Montreal Jazz: A Conversation With Andr? M?nard 2010-07-02T21:24:00Z Some of the time, like Miles Davis, she sang with her back partly to the audience, all the better to lead and soak in the ensemble. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z He discovered jazz when he was 12 and soon became a fan of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. Charlie Watts, Bedrock Drummer for the Rolling Stones, Dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Once, at a Miles Davis concert, Flora Purim was sitting alone. The Brazilian Jazz Great Flora Purim Has Many Stories to Tell 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” treats it instead as nearly disposable, fungible, ordinary. Review: “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” and the Problem of the Archive 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “Blue,” due out in October, is its painstaking attempt at a note-for-note re-creation of the Miles Davis album “Kind of Blue,” with a liner note essay by Jorge Luis Borges. Jazz Listings for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s very easy to imagine Miles Davis putting his own stamp on this darkly tinged tour de force, as he did on a later version of Crosby’s “Guinnevere” in 1970. Crosby, Stills, Nash and … Jazz? 2013-05-06T20:59:54Z Long considered Washington’s premier tenor saxophonist, Mr. Hill shared the stage with jazz royalty such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Max Roach. Buck Hill, saxophonist and D.C. ‘local legend,’ dies at 90 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z A Miles Davis Festival Passport will be available at all participating venues; concert-goers will get the passport stamped at each performance. Festival to celebrate Miles Davis 2011-01-12T06:00:00Z Columbia/Legacy Recordings is to announce Thursday that it plans to release “Miles Davis at Newport 1955-75: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4” on July 17. Miles Davis at Newport: A Four-Disc Set Coming in July 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z He emerged in the 1960s as a tenor saxophonist and in-house composer for pace-setting editions of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet, two of the most celebrated small groups in jazz history. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Not getting an example of Perlman playing Tchaikovsky and certain other key works in a gargantuan set devoted to his life is like not getting "Kind of Blue" in a Miles Davis retrospective. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z My first gig out of college was playing with Tony Williams, Miles Davis’s drummer. ‘A Really Cool Gig’: Playing Piano for Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z As a teenager, he fell for the saxman Cannonball Adderley, which was what first got him into Cannonball collaborator Miles Davis. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Their father, Bobby, was a boxer who hung out with the jazzmen Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk; Monk later became Robert’s godfather. Kool & the Gang Get the Dance Floor Moving. Have They Gotten Their Due? 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z DuBois, Miles Davis and Public Enemy, and consists of a variety of media, including photography, video, sculpture and paintings. Solo Chicago show for artist Rashid Johnson 2012-04-16T17:10:17Z Earlier this month, Mr. Cheadle was at the Four Seasons here explaining how he got roped into not only playing Miles Davis but also directing the film and writing the screenplay with Steven Baigelman. Don Cheadle on Becoming Miles Davis 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Miles Davis once said that James Taylor sings like a blind man. Rickie Lee Jones and James Taylor 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Questlove of the Roots says that discovering “The Low End Theory” in the days after Miles Davis’ death and hearing Phife’s rapping sent him on his life’s course. Mourning Phife Dawg: Hip hop lost a legend too young in Tribe Called Quest’s Malik Taylor 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Many of the tunes were familiar, like Thelonious Monk’s “I Mean You,” or Miles Davis’s “So What,” covered by jazz musicians everywhere. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Jimmy is the Miles Davis of con men, as his former buddy Marco tells him in Chicago. “Better Call Saul”: Season 1 ends with Jimmy’s better nature slipping away 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z He was part of that movement’s first wave, as a member of Miles Davis’s slashing rock- and funk-infused bands of the late 1960s and early ’70s. Critic?s Notebook: Chick Corea, Jazz Chameleon, in All His Colors 2011-10-31T22:28:02Z But in 1967, a chance meeting on Broadway with Gil Evans, the composer, arranger and Miles Davis collaborator, led to an invitation to rehearse with Evans’s big band. At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Trust Me on This: Father knows culture best Topics: , Last fall, the Onion ran a so-true-it-hurts story about the “cool dad” raising his 12-year-old on Talking Heads, Big Star, Miles Davis and Stanley Kubrick films. Trust Me on This: Father knows culture best 2012-06-17T13:00:00Z As Mr. Akil recalled that conversation, “Mara’s the very expressive one and I tried to be cool, like Miles Davis cool. I just sat there, like, ‘That sounds interesting.’ On ‘Black Lightning,’ a Superhero Takes On Race, Justice and the Real World 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s like Miles Davis said: “Don’t you ask nobody for nothin’.” Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z We settle into a quiet corner of the bar as he tells me about his new film Miles Ahead, a biopic about Miles Davis’s five-year hiatus from making music and his subsequent comeback. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z “He’s as straight as an arrow,” said Herbie Hancock, the hallowed pianist who met Carter at Miles Davis’s house in 1963, in a phone interview. At 85, the Jazz Bassist Ron Carter Still Seeks ‘A Better Order of Notes’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z His is a jazz show for those who have appreciated the likes of Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis, and the generations of artists who followed them. Seattle jazz broadcaster reaching fans around world 2012-12-22T05:49:03Z On occasion Wideman can almost seem to push his readers away intentionally, as if he were Miles Davis soloing with his back to the audience. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Kind of Blue felt like Miles Davis's music. 50 great moments in jazz: Miles Davis and Kind of Blue 2010-07-05T14:35:00Z I was reading the autobiography of Miles Davis when it was popular to change your name to something iconic while giving it a new spin. Questions for a Wedding D.J. 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Such a sentiment may seem commonplace today, but it was rare in the mid-1960s, before Miles Davis and other older jazz musicians embraced a similarly eclectic philosophy, as Mr. Coryell himself did throughout his career. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z This is a New York that exists inside the storytelling of Miles Davis. Don Cheadle Narrates a Scene From ‘Miles Ahead’ 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Miles Davis's paintings and drawing are on view at Gallery 27, Cork Street, London, today and tomorrow. Art ? Miles Davis's last addiction 2010-12-09T22:28:00Z Miles Davis, one of the most influential musicians in jazz history, will be the focus of a citywide, four-month festival organized by the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. Festival to celebrate Miles Davis 2011-01-12T06:00:00Z Stanley Nelson’s documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” made for the PBS series “American Masters,” isn’t such a film. Review: “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” and the Problem of the Archive 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Children may not be familiar with cool jazz, but they know what cool is, and the trumpeter and composer Miles Davis epitomized both. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z He performed with Miles Davis’s second quintet, a group that included Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Ron Carter, and he went on to form the fusion band Weather Report. In Kennedy Center Honors first, ‘Hamilton’ to be awarded prestigious arts prize 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Bob Dylan is genius, Miles Davis is genius, Vermeer’s a genius. Penn Jillette: I didn’t want to be a stereotypical Hollywood liberal 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z I first heard Miles Davis as a student, when I was struck by his extraordinary musicianship, and his work did affect some of the sounds of Simply Red. Mick Hucknall: soundtrack of my life 2012-10-27T23:19:42Z The jazz great, whose statue stands proudly in a park next to Miles Davis Hall, performed 10 times at Montreux, the last time just two months before his death at age 65 in 1991. Montreux fetes Miles Davis with "soundtrack" to his life 2011-07-14T13:56:02Z He was also on hand to rehearse with Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool band and with Charlie Parker in a special 27-piece orchestra organised by the arranger Gene Roland. Eddie Bert obituary 2012-10-08T10:37:04Z I’ve read commentary where Miles said — about other movies that he’d seen about artists that were made in that way — he’s had very ‘Miles Davis’ things to say about them, meaning, not kind. In portraying jazzman Miles Davis, Don Cheadle took his cues from his subject 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z When people ask me what I listen to, I first tell them to go back and listen to Miles Davis and Coltrane. Kenny G on his new doc & not paying attention to critics: "Miles Davis liked what I was doing" 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z That rhythmic signature is crucial to the feel of some Miles Davis albums from the early 1970s and a range of other music since. Review: Jack DeJohnette’s ‘In Movement’ and ‘Return’ Show Sweep 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z His works celebrate icons of black culture, from athletes like Muhammad Ali and Hank Aaron to musicians like Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, and often allude to the legacy of slavery and colonialism. Sotheby's finds hidden signature on Basquiat work 2012-02-14T22:08:17Z “Nostalgia for what cannot be,” Hall once called the sound of Miles Davis’s trumpet — Davis, whose parents left Arkansas in an early wave of the Great Migration. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z As great as Miles Davis was, the fact that he didn’t talk to the audience isn’t something that’s going to translate to everyone. Chris Botti Plays His Trumpet, but No Holiday Music 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Someone soon gave me a collection of Miles Davis ballads from the fifties, which were gorgeous, and I travelled back and forth through history from early Miles past late Coltrane. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Geils’s first instrument was the trumpet, and he saw jazz stars Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis perform when he was young. J. Geils, guitarist whose band had hits with ‘Centerfold,’ ‘Freeze-Frame,’ dies at 71 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Miles Davis and Chet Baker fare better in “Miles Ahead” and “Born to Be Blue,” each of which focuses on fallow periods in the musicians’ lives. Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z By 1964 Mr. Williams was working with the trumpeter Miles Davis and persuaded him to hire Mr. Rivers, who was with the bluesman T-Bone Walker at the time, for a summer tour. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z Basquiat's paintings celebrate icons of black culture, from boxing champions like Cassius Clay, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Lewis to jazzmen including Miles Davis. Paris: Basquiat show fetes his 50th birthday 2010-10-15T14:57:00Z But I can tell you, Miles Davis liked what I was doing. Kenny G on his new doc & not paying attention to critics: "Miles Davis liked what I was doing" 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Yet, he also played and recorded in jazz groups with the likes of Miles Davis. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z A jazz pianist and composer who worked with Miles Davis, Sonny Collins and countless others at Philadelphia’s Blue Note club, Bryant is perhaps best known for the eminently danceable “Madison Time.” 2011?s 50 New Members of Rock and Roll Heaven 2011-12-30T17:57:04Z “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” directed by Stanley Nelson, doesn’t presume to be the last cinematic word on the artist, but within its nearly two-hour confines, this production aims for comprehensiveness. ‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ Review: A Complicated Artist 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z You might hear a trace of the slipstream cadence he explored in the Miles Davis Quintet and probably a touch of his bristly rapport with Lee Morgan. Music Review: Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard 2012-11-30T23:43:30Z “Jazz wouldn’t exist if people weren’t like that. If you didn’t have Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Miles Davis. They rubbed people the wrong way all the time.” Steve Miller cracked the code of 1970s radio. But he’s still raging against the music industry. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Stanko played dark, slithering low figures on laments, and punctuated fast ones with ecstatic squeals and rampant percussive runs – with Virelles sometimes suggesting a young Herbie Hancock to his Miles Davis on the latter. Tomasz Stanko/John Surman – review 2013-05-16T17:22:34Z She dated Eric Clapton and Robert Palmer among other rock stars, but was best known for her time with Miles Davis. Betty Davis, hard funk pioneer, dead at 77 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Maceo Parker appears in James Brown, and you mentioned Miles Davis’ story in connection to the Betty Davis chapter, which I'm really looking forward to. Funk was the black answer to “Star Wars”: Take the trip with “Tales From the Tour Bus” 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “Trumpeter Miles Davis once said, ‘You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Interactive Shadowboxes Breathe Life Into the Legacies of Village Artists 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z From 1963, he spent six years with Miles Davis in what was arguably the finest jazz ensemble of the decade. Profile of jazz maestro Herbie Hancock: From the archive, 12 Feb 1975 2013-02-12T07:00:00Z Particularly well known for his stint in Miles Davis’s band during the 1960s, this tenor saxophonist uses a lissome, slippery tone to craft melodies of scattered beauty. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z They highlight Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, all of the great artists and the inception of jazz into the American history of music. Jovan Adepo Pushes Through With Rachmaninoff and ‘Love Island’ 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z He set up an apartment for his family on the top floor and turned the basement into his workspace; everyone from Mikhail Baryshnikov to Robert Mapplethorpe, Miles Davis to Billy Joel, passed through. Art Parties, Alive and Well in New York 2010-06-03T22:07:00Z It is often noted that his piece “The Duke” — famously recorded by Miles Davis and Gil Evans in 1959 on their collaborative album “Miles Ahead” — runs through all 12 keys in the first eight bars. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z While working on the classic Miles Davis early fusion album In a Silent Way, the Shorter-Zawinul partnership flourished. Great moments in jazz: Weather Report and the orchestration of fusion 2011-02-25T14:49:29Z Miles Davis, for instance, was often considered rude and hostile, but “the music tells me a different story.” Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Kind of blue, and pink and black and white … The multi-coloured Miles Davis in the 80s. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z JW Miles Davis was once asked what the trumpet meant to him: "It's my voice," he rasped, and you could see his point. TV highlights 21 December 2010-12-20T00:35:01Z Getting More From an Electric Miles Davis Model The Miles Davis album “Tutu” — his first for Warner Brothers, released in 1986 — was a proud and polarizing creature in its day. Music Review: Marcus Miller Gets More From a Miles Davis Model 2010-06-23T21:09:00Z Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and other musicians boarded and performed while traveling the region. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z He later said, "I'd realised I wasn't going to be the next Miles Davis," so he asked Wishart if he thought he could make it as a composer. Geoffrey Burgon obituary 2010-09-22T18:10:00Z Byrd's talent seemed to encompass some of Brown's spontaneous, narrative-generating strength and his exquisite tone, as well as Miles Davis's pacing, and the fire and penetrating attack of the first-wave bebop trumpeters inspired by Gillespie. Donald Byrd obituary 2013-02-12T10:20:40Z Once he joined, Mr. Shorter contributed new compositions to every studio album made by the Miles Davis Quintet, beginning with the title track of “E.S.P.” in 1965. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Previously released in abridged form as the two-disc "Miles Davis at Fillmore," this set boasts more than two hours of previously unheard music, including tracks from the Fillmore West taking on "Paraphernalia" and "Footprints." Box-set highlights: Paramount Records, William Onyeabor, Joni Mitchell 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Yet today jazz aficionados find themselves blessed with two very different films featuring the legendary Miles Davis. Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z I saw him, too, not twirling cilantro sprigs at the pass but facing the burners, his back to the audience, like Miles Davis. Restaurant Review: Gato From Bobby Flay 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z With the Friends’ full cooperation, he helped carry “The Wheel” far from its usual country-ish territory, toward a kind of extraterrestrial pastorale with glimmers of Terry Riley’s Minimalism and Miles Davis’s “In a Silent Way.” Music Review: Phil Lesh and Friends at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-04-16T21:17:15Z Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley gave historic performances there, some of which became canonical recordings. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Don Cheadle depicts Miles Davis, the towering jazz trumpeter and composer brought down by drugs and fury, in this biography, which Mr. Cheadle also directed and helped write. What’s on TV Wednesday 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Cobb, a drummer and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, will probably be remembered as the drummer whose crackling ride cymbal adorned Miles Davis’s 1959 classic, “Kind of Blue.” 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Nobs, 75, organised the first jazz festival in the resort while working in the tourism office and over time has brought giants including Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Keith Jarrett to its famed stage. Seal, Santana and Sting to play Montreux jazz fest 2011-04-12T21:45:48Z Now, we’re turning to the man known as the Prince of Darkness, who gave us the “Birth of the Cool” and never stopped redefining it: Miles Davis. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Miles Davis’s Electric Period 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z He compares him to Miles Davis, summing them up the same way: “dress right, pose right, and appear cold.” Critic’s Notebook: Library of Congress Acquires Max Roach’s Papers 2014-01-24T22:54:46Z He became the main composer for whatever bands he joined, from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers to the Miles Davis Quintet. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Not that they're really making the outrageously adventurous amalgam of Hollywood musicals and Miles Davis fusion that they feverishly imagine. New band of the day – Merchandise (No 1,496) 2013-04-19T10:45:32Z I wanted to do something as a storyteller that felt like my experience of Miles Davis as I listened to his music, as I read about his life. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z In 1962 he interviewed Miles Davis for what became the first official Playboy interview. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Like his early admirer Miles Davis, Jamal develops improvisations as integrated, composition-like pieces full of unexpected turns, rather than headlong torrents of notes. Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you' 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z They played “It Never Entered My Mind,” and I thought wistfully of the gorgeous, heartbreaking version by Miles Davis. Contemplating Molly Ringwald 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Here one was rendered in a two-button calfskin with a wide leg that made you wish Miles Davis were alive to rock one. Fashion Dispenses a Happy Little Pill 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s has often justly been hailed as one of the great small groups in the history of jazz. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z In the late 1980s, Miles Davis once told a Canadian journalist that a lot of his paintings and drawings in that period were simply “faces and lines,” and that making art helped him relax. In Transit: The Art of Miles Davis, on Display in London 2010-12-01T11:00:00Z His surprising opening track transforms "Human Nature" from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" into a jazz ballad — as Miles Davis did previously — embellishing the catchy melody with percussive chordal playing that gradually builds in intensity. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z But the Miles Davis Quintet had basically just completed liftoff at the end of 1965. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z Before his lens discovered rock-and-roll, Marshall continued to find inspiration in jazz musicians, including Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74 2010-03-25T12:22:00Z If that made him seem more like Marcus Miller than Miles Davis, much the same could be said of the show. Music Review: Marcus Miller Gets More From a Miles Davis Model 2010-06-23T21:09:00Z Thirty years after his death, the music of Miles Davis is going strong. How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z A boyfriend in high school turned her on to Miles Davis and the Mars Volta. Kimbra?s Road From New Zealand Leads to a U.S. Tour 2012-05-21T16:29:26Z The mood was like Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue.’ Electric guitarist Robben Ford brings it home 2013-02-21T23:22:06Z As a reflection of his musical eclecticism, his desk contained photos of jazz giants Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The first record I ever bought was Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain, just cos I liked the cover. Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent' 2013-01-10T19:00:00Z She caught the eye of Miles Davis, who had already caught hers. Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z In New York, he accompanied rising stars such as trumpeter Miles Davis and also made an impression on Young during a week-long gig at Café Society in Greenwich Village. Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Named for the jazz great Miles Davis, Frost grew up moving back and forth between Maryland and Washington D.C., raised by his mother, a systems engineer, and his grandmother, a schoolteacher. Dancing to ‘Billie Jean’ Led Him to ‘MJ.’ Now He’s a Tony Contender. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But I’m also in the lineage of a Miles Davis — you know, that liked nice things also. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z Sickler remembers only that her mentor had been devastated by the demolishment of his parents’ house in nearby Hackensack, where he began his recording career, capturing Miles Davis and others in the family living room. Plotting the Future of the Most Storied Studio in Jazz 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z When the young American trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire started being compared to Miles Davis a couple of years ago, his regular sax-playing partner Walter Smith III wasn't far behind in the compliments list. This week's new live music 2013-01-26T06:00:08Z The fourth volume, “Miles Davis at Newport, 1955-1975,” which comes out next Friday, is the most revealing of them to date. Miles Davis’s Boldest Heights 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z I mean, I’m cool enough for Miles Davis to call me on the phone and go, “You want to join my band?” “I’m not ready for the dirt nap yet”: How Toto outlasted the haters, took back their career and won over a new generation 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Everything from Miles Davis to corny Latin American love ballads. In "Raymond & Ray," adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was "inarguably a monster" to them 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Business is business,” said Gary Gilbert, whose law firm manages the estates of Rick James and Miles Davis. How death brought David Bowie a career breakthrough 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z They include work by Baker, of course, but also a movie soundtrack and music from Miles Davis, Nina Simone and the pianist Hampton Hawes. At SXSW, Ethan Hawke and His 5 Favorite Jazz Recordings 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z And Mr. Shorter made several references to the cryptic wisdom of Miles Davis, slipping each time into an unusually convincing imitation of that trumpeter’s throaty rasp. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z Comparing his influence to that of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie on Miles Davis, Chappelle spoke directly to Woods: “I was trying to play like you,” he said. He Helped Make Dave Chappelle Dave Chappelle 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Miles Davis and Nina Simone worked together only in the sense that they occasionally toured together — and not to particular success. Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Other shows will feature the music of Miles Davis and the James Bond films. The xx team up with BBC orchestra 2012-08-16T10:00:15Z In 1970 the band played before 14,500 fans at Madison Square Garden; their opening act was a sextet led by Miles Davis. Lew Soloff, Trumpeter for Blood, Sweat and Tears, Dies at 71 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z There's this great Miles Davis song that says, "Thinking One Thing but Doing Another." Flaming Lips bandleader Wayne Coyne on fate and free will 2010-09-24T23:29:00Z Along with her most jaggedly assertive funk, it also included “You and I,” a ballad written with Miles Davis and arranged by Gil Evans. Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z We don't look at a Rembrandt painting or listen to a Miles Davis record and assume they were made last week. Should comedy worry about its shelf life? 2011-03-14T14:30:00Z Miles Davis credits her with changing his style from classic jazz to the more popular style of jazz. ‘I didn’t just fade off the planet.’ Reconnecting with ’70s funk queen Betty Davis 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Coming up in St. Louis, he was a mentor and lifelong friend to Miles Davis, who was six years Terry’s junior. The Sound of Musical Joy: Clark Terry’s Trumpet 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Gil Evans with Miles Davis, with whom he recorded three classic jazz albums. Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 2012-11-07T18:07:54Z As for Gaga, she recently revealed a tattoo on her arm of Miles Davis’s trumpet. How Lady Gaga (and Tony Bennett) Sold 131,000 Jazz Albums 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Brian reminds me of the way Miles Davis used to work: he'd get musicians to put their heads together and then say, 'You now must connect.' Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z And yet the review expressed one sly critique: a suggestion that this palace of gastronomy "needed a bit of Miles Davis." Who's rocking to the music? That's the chef 2012-04-26T04:30:48Z Though he had been the dominant partner in recordings with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk that had begun several years before, it was from early 1956 that Rollins really took off. 50 great moments in jazz: The rise of saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins 2010-05-11T14:05:00Z The film shows some of the notables—Miles Davis, Woody Allen, Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer—who show up for the fight. The Muhammad Ali Documentary That Gets to the Existential Heart of Boxing 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Encouraged by Miles Davis, who told her she had all the skills she needed, she produced her next two albums herself. Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It didn't sound particularly baroque: Bainbridge's tonal palette seemed in equal parts Miles Davis and Debussy, while a palindromic structure brought the material full circle in the manner of Berg's Lulu. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair 2010-06-07T21:20:00Z The stream of Miles Davis material never seems to stop, but a welcome new addition is Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967 The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 box sets of music to tuck under the tree 2011-12-12T23:11:04Z And particularly striking is a photograph, taken at a party on May 26, 1970, in which Armstrong and Miles Davis are huddled together, smiling and chatting warmly. Museum Showcases an Unseen Louis Armstrong Trove 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The company's artistic director, Frank Chaves, presents the world premiere of a work he has choreographed to recordings by Miles Davis. Festival to celebrate Miles Davis 2011-01-12T06:00:00Z They add to our appreciation of some of the genre’s mightiest geniuses—Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Nearing the end, Mr. Glasper shifted seamlessly into “You Got Me,” the neo-soul anthem by the Roots, and “Blue in Green,” by Miles Davis and Bill Evans. Review: The Robert Glasper Trio Presents Moody Covers at the Village Vanguard 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It deals at length with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, and how pictures of them on and off stage helped build or maintain their personas. Books of The Times: ?Blue Notes in Black and White? by Benjamin Cawthra - Review 2011-12-15T22:54:43Z As the title suggests, however indirectly, it’s a cultural reimagining of “Kind of Blue,” the landmark 1959 Miles Davis album, which featured a weightless ballad called “Flamenco Sketches” as its fifth and final track. Music Review: Chano Dom?nguez at the Jazz Standard 2012-04-06T21:25:22Z For more than six decades of his life, Jones has worked with music's greats: Duke Ellington, Coltrane, Count Basie, Miles Davis. Quincy Jones book schools next generation 2010-11-19T23:51:00Z So I found myself sorting through everything from Miles Davis to Bartók and getting little emotional tingles. Old music: Bob Dylan – Blowin' in the Wind 2012-06-13T10:16:56Z Another hit among dozens over the decades was Ascenseur pour l'echafaud, or Elevator to the Gallows, directed by Louis Malle with a soundtrack of the same name by jazz artist Miles Davis. French actress Jeanne Moreau dies at 89 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Duke and Miller worked on the Miles Davis album "Tutu," and each served as music director for Sanborn's legendary TV show, "Night Music." David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, George Duke team up 2011-08-11T21:03:04Z For example, this picture — “Miles Davis in the Green Room.” When Admiration Is the Thread of a Collection 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “We wanted the characters to dance to a ballad and we were trying to think what to do; we didn’t want to do a famous Miles Davis track or anything like that,” Norton said. Thom Yorke wrote such a great song for "Motherless Brooklyn" that Edward Norton altered the film 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z That subject would be Miles Davis, portrayed here by a devastatingly cool Don Cheadle. What’s on TV This Week: Documentaries on David Driskell and Abraham Lincoln 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z “I was thinking of this Miles Davis quote, ‘It takes a long time to sound like yourself,’ ” Levit said. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The second, for trumpets and electric guitar, starts out sounding like a fanfare from a Miles Davis and Gil Evans album. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Harrold is technically gifted enough to have recorded the Miles Davis trumpet parts heard on the soundtrack to the 2016 film “Miles Ahead.” 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It's hard to think of a more significant influence on the small jazz ensembles of the last four decadesthan Miles Davis's second quintet, formed in the mid 60s. 50 great moments in jazz: How Miles Davis's second quintet changed jazz 2010-10-13T15:49:00Z Miles Davis in particular became a fashion icon for blue-eyed soul brothers everywhere in Britain. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-04-07T07:00:01Z His career spans pioneering work in Miles Davis’s second great quintet and alongside a good share of jazz’s other leading figures from the 1960s on. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Rollins, 81, is a jazz saxophonist who has shared the stage with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. Ma, Diamond, Streep receive Kennedy Center Honors 2011-12-05T14:27:10Z Miles Davis wrote the names of his band on boards that he held up, back turned, to the audience. Old music: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – The Intro and the Outro 2012-11-29T12:05:54Z She mentioned Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue” and “Sketches of Spain” as inspirations, music that generated warmth for her during the pandemic. Allow Natalia Lafourcade to Reintroduce Herself 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z The collected recordings of the “Second Great Miles Davis Quintet” are one of the most treasured canons in all of jazz. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Midway through “Miles Ahead,” Miles Davis, anticipating a journalist’s question, asks, “Why don’t you play like you used to?” ‘Miles Ahead’ and ‘Nina’ Try to Hit the Beat on the Offbeat 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The life and music of Miles Davis are the subject of “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” a documentary that hits theaters this weekend. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Flay List’ and ‘Hail Satan?’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z At one gig, on the same bill as Miles Davis, a roadie pushed a keyboard's pitch wheel up so it was out of tune for the whole show. Joyless divisions: the end of New Order 2011-07-14T20:44:01Z The placidity was largely the province of Mr. Fresu, who plays with the lyrical concision and softly plangent tone of Miles Davis. Music Review | Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Play at Columbia 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z It was hard to avoid the feeling that the ghost of Miles Davis was hovering over the first set, with Hancock, Carter and Shorter all veterans of his late '60s quintet. Herbie Hancock & friends throw rousing jazz shindig 2010-06-25T22:05:00Z The veteran keyboardist will perform alongside saxophonist Wayne Shorter, his longtime collaborator and former bandmate in Miles Davis' vaunted '60s-era quintet, and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Ensemble. L.A. Phil to join Playboy Jazz Fest again 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z But its track list includes “Dreams,” along with several pieces from Mr. Henderson’s crossover albums of the 1970s, and tunes associated with his chief trumpet lodestars, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis and Woody Shaw. Eddie Henderson and Quintet Regales the Crowd at Smoke 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z By the 1990s, he was sharing festival-directing duties with the music producer Quincy Jones and bringing in Miles Davis as an honorary host. Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs dies 2013-01-10T22:36:10Z Yeah, the 3 percent of people that really, really know Miles Davis. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Colored Emotions is like the Flaming Lips as they were, in simpler times, before they decided to become an unholy amalgam of Miles Davis, Can and an explosion in an armaments factory. New band of the day – Night Moves (No 1,481) 2013-03-28T14:49:00Z Don Cheadle overreached when he wrote, produced, directed, starred in and did the music for this “exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.” Worst of 2016: 10 movies that failed spectacularly to deliver on their promise 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z He considered himself at heart a jazzman; his heroes were musicians like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Lester Young and phenomenal pop crooners like the unfairly forgotten Billy Eckstine. The Uniform Cool of Charlie Watts 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The final movement Mr. Denk intriguingly likened to “Miles Davis not knowing what tune he is going to play.” Review: Jeremy Denk and Stefan Jackiw’s Lessons in Ives’s Nostalgic Sonatas 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Bobby learned piano and studied music composition at university, but completely changed tack after a Miles Davis gig. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z And then finally one night, he popped the question about working together, and I said, “What? You’re Miles Davis!” Q&A with Nile Rodgers: Sinatra, disco and how a trip to the bathroom led to the Diana Ross song ‘I’m Coming Out’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The ghost of Miles Davis has been haunting Don Cheadle for almost 20 years. In portraying jazzman Miles Davis, Don Cheadle took his cues from his subject 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He was especially proud of securing one of the first in-depth interviews with the elusive jazz great Miles Davis. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Miles Davis in Black Satin takes all the ingredients mentioned above, combines them, claps his hands and – voila. Readers recommend: Songs with handclaps ? the results 2010-07-15T21:08:00Z “With people like Joni or Herbie Hancock or Miles Davis, it’s not what you learn from them, it’s what you unlearn from them,” she said. Brandi Carlile holds nothing back on unflinching new album ‘In These Silent Days’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z He noted that Coltrane had credited Miles Davis with convincing him that rehearsals stifle creativity, rather than draw it out. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The Art of Miles Davis, on Display in London Miles Davis’s “Soviet Japanese,” part of the retrospective at Gallery 27 in London. In Transit: The Art of Miles Davis, on Display in London 2010-12-01T11:00:00Z Wallace Roney lived in the shadow of his hero and mentor Miles Davis, often by choice. Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z To Miles Davis she was a "wonderful friend". The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild – review 2012-06-01T21:52:01Z In 1964, one year into his post as the lead pianist in Miles Davis’s band, Herbie Hancock released the concept album “Empyrean Isles,” a tribute to an imagined world in the Great Eastern Sea. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Horn performed the flute, clarinet and saxophone with stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Miles Davis. Paul Horn, Jazz flautist, dies at 84 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Charlie Parker and Ray and Miles Davis and so many guys. Quincy Jones' long and restless song 2011-01-02T06:00:00Z “It was like playing music with Miles Davis or baseball with Babe Ruth,” said Mr. Hawke, who was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z With Miles Davis in the background; my version of therapy. Who does the housework? Five Guardian writers reveal all 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z At a time when fusion and funk had replaced organic jazz, when Miles Davis’s “On the Corner” and Weather Report’s “Mysterious Traveller” were dominating the genre, Russell followed his vision. It was the first Black-run jazz company in decades. But was Black Jazz Records owned by a White guy? 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z In the jazz world, Miles Davis built his legacy on an ever-changing style, but never tried to put all of his postures into a single album. ‘Heaven and Earth’ by Kamasi Washington Review: Musical Miracle Worker? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In New York, an ailing Andy Warhol sent Heller to meet an up-and-coming Basquiat, who insisted on the inclusion of Miles Davis. How Drake’s $100 Million Bet Saved the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In the newly released documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” Cobb remembers the simple directions that Davis gave him when they recorded the classic album “Kind of Blue”: “Just swing,” Davis said. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I want to do a movie that Miles Davis would want to star in.’ In portraying jazzman Miles Davis, Don Cheadle took his cues from his subject 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Don Cheadle also brought a passion project to the festival: “Miles Ahead,” a warts-and-all account of musician Miles Davis that unfolds at times like a kinetic action movie. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Fan picks touched on a variety of different styles of music ranging from Miles Davis to Mudhoney. From Spinal Tap to Mel Torme, readers recall favorite Bumbershoot performances 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Lee retains its central triangle and some details, while making it his own by, for instance, changing the Miles Davis music. Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z At what the sublime singer-guitarist duo describe as their biggest gig, the audience handclaps start early and end with a standing ovation, writes Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. The Civil Wars cancel UK tour dates owing to 'irreconcilable differences' 2012-11-07T10:54:54Z Related: Miles Ahead: Don Cheadle on doing Miles Davis justice on screen Nobody saw this coming. Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z "I hung out in Harlem and saw Miles Davis and all the jazz cats," she continued. Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. 2012-01-20T16:40:14Z It was a funny twist on something brutal that Miles Davis once said: “If white people really knew what was on most black people’s minds, it would scare them to death.” The better we understand Beyoncé, the more there is to know 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Two other high-profile world premieres bookend the festival, with “The Walk” getting the party started on Saturday and “Miles Ahead,” Don Cheadle’s biographical portrait of Miles Davis, bringing it to a close on Oct. New York Film Festival: The Perils of Popularity 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z By the time he played with Miles Davis in the late ’40s, Roach had shifted his style to a more propulsive rhythm that emphasized the ride cymbal. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Max Roach 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z It was very hip to know there was a new Miles Davis album out. Charlie Watts: 'Glastonbury? I don't want to do it' 2013-04-04T14:00:00Z “Ripple in Time” resembles an outtake from the Miles Davis album “Tutu.” Critics? Choice: CDs by Blake Shelton, Mike Posner, George Duke 2010-08-08T22:33:00Z On Tuesday night at Birdland, in the first set of a five-night run, Quest put forth a characteristic effort, slashing through original music and some tunes from the repertory of the 1960s-vintage Miles Davis Quintet. Music Review: Band?s Rapport Runs Deep, and the Undertow Swings 2011-02-23T22:59:31Z Initially, though, he built a reputation in the jazz world, interviewing artists like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie and turning the writing of liner notes for albums into something approaching an art form. Nat Hentoff Is the Subject of David Lewis’s New Documentary 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z On Wednesday the focus turns to Leonard Bernstein, a source of productive inspiration for Mr. Charlap; Thursday’s concert pays homage to Miles Davis, with Jeremy Pelt on the horn. Jazz Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Hancock dedicated a spontaneously improvised piece - with lots of classical influences - to his Belgian friend, and then Thielemans joined him for a playful free-form duet loosely derived from Miles Davis' "Blue and Green." Musician friends celebrate Thielemans' 90 years 2012-09-30T03:04:08Z He played in the prestigious Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, and with Duke Ellington saxophonist Johnny Hodges's group in the early 50s, with the organist Jimmy Smith, and then from 1955 with Miles Davis. 50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation 2010-08-09T15:49:00Z He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z Even some of those who had once shaken their head at Coleman, such as trumpeter Miles Davis, were incorporating his ideas into their playing. Ornette Coleman’s music polarized jazz, then became part of its DNA 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z For now, three of his Miles Davis photos are prominently displayed in the “American Cool” exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Lens Blog: Keeping Jazz’s Rhythm With a Shutter 2014-02-24T17:47:00Z Miles Davis put his new wife’s picture on the cover of his album “Filles de Kilimanjaro.” ‘I didn’t just fade off the planet.’ Reconnecting with ’70s funk queen Betty Davis 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The four musicians connect in a freewheeling pyroclastic flow not dissimilar from the futuristic fusion of Miles Davis’s electric bands of that period. Can’s Live Shows Will Be Heard at Last, Thanks to a Bootlegger in Big Pants 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z It’s also a big band tour de force, with echoes of James Brown and Miles Davis. Quick Hits: Afrobeat sensation Seun Kuti performs live 2011-08-27T16:01:00Z The group’s earliest recorded work predated a much more famous set of similarly temperate jazz recordings, the 1948-50 Miles Davis Nonet work later packaged as “Birth of the Cool.” Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z Mr. Van Gelder not only recorded sessions for Blue Note, but also worked extensively with Prestige Records on such sessions as Miles Davis’s “Bags’ Groove” and “Walkin’ ” and Sonny Rollins’s “Tenor Madness” and “Saxophone Colossus.” Rudy Van Gelder, audio engineer who helped shape venerated jazz recordings, dies at 91 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z "Sly Stone is to funk what Miles Davis is to jazz." Profile of jazz maestro Herbie Hancock: From the archive, 12 Feb 1975 2013-02-12T07:00:00Z Its music became lighter and clearer and wiser; it started having more to do with Indian music and La Monte Young and Miles Davis’s “In a Silent Way.” Music: Playlist: Smash the Windows, Bang the Cowbell 2011-02-20T02:01:57Z He’s carved out the space in a corner of the garage, with images of Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone surrounding him. So you want to retire and become a writer? Here's some inspiration 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z As a teen experiencing ennui and sadness he would listen to Miles Davis and Bill Evans on YouTube. Secret shows and a cult fandom are behind this jazz phenomenon in L.A. 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Fragile Beauty will span from the 1950s to today and include portraits of jazz musicians Miles Davis and Chet Baker, and actress Marilyn Monroe. V&A: Elton John and David Furnish's photography collection to go on display 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Bennett drew and signed an image of Miles Davis’ trumpet that Gaga wears as a tattoo on her arm. Tony Bennett left his heart to generations of music fans 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z For me, music in the summer means relaxing on a beach while listening to Miles Davis’s “Jack Johnson,” or checking out the Top 40 on my back porch while watching the sun set. Crisis in Russia 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z One of the most respected and influential figures in American music, Jones has collaborated with and shaped the careers of countless artists, from Miles Davis and Duke Ellington to Ray Charles and Michael Jackson. Quincy Jones released from hospital in 'great spirits' after health scare 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden said Egyptian authorities had accused it of "falsifying" history through its showcase of work by artists including Beyoncé, Nas and Miles Davis. Egypt bans Dutch archaeologists over exhibit about black musicians 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z For instance, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby and your example in the book, Miles Davis. Our monsters, ourselves: Claire Dederer explains her sympathy for the canceled 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z A section called “Royalty” features Basquiat paintings that pay homage to Black cultural luminaries he admired — Grace Jones, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Sugar Ray Robinson, among them. A trove of Basquiat's little-seen work arrives in L.A. — a city pivotal to his artistic life 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z If you want to hear what was on rotation last week it was Miles Davis, Deli Girls, Hiro Kone, Maximum Joy. An Artist Whose Work Might (Possibly) Have Its Own Free Will 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But in 1964 he was swooped away after several attempts by jazz legend Miles Davis to become part of Davis' First Great Quintet. Wayne Shorter: Legendary jazz saxophonist dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Shorter, a tenor saxophonist, made his debut in 1959 and would go on to be a foundational member of two of the most seminal jazz groups: Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet. Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophone pioneer, dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Miles Davis eventually gave it a nice twist — something like, It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you don’t play. Review | Rihanna won big at the Super Bowl — and without losing her mystique 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Originally composed and recorded in 1966 by saxophonist Wayne Shorter for his album “Adam’s Apple,” the song has been performed by many jazz greats over the years, including Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. At UW, 2 choreographers dive into jazz 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z A bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and ‘70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis’ landmark fusion of jazz and more contemporary sounds. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z An estimable side player and film scorer who’s worked with everyone from Miles Davis to Michael Jackson, this ace on the bass is no slouch as a Grammy-winning solo artist either. The best cozy-season club shows coming to Seattle in December 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z You might run into historical figures such as Miles Davis and Cicely Tyson standing before the White House, in a work that smashes together places and times. Henry Taylor, the democratic king of portraiture, makes his L.A. homecoming at MOCA 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Then the school intercom announced, “Miles Davis is in the building.” Girl killed at St. Louis high school was ‘wonderful, joyful’ 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But when Scott returned to New York in the 1960s, she struggled to find work in the shadow of Miles Davis, Motown and the Beatles. Perspective | McCarthyism silenced this Black icon. Now dancers are making noise. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Compared to the likes of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie or Charles Mingus, he was far more understated as both a player and a man. Mal Waldron, sideman to jazz greats, gets a solo retrospective 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z On one poster, a blocky, blue figure that appears as improvised as a jazz solo invites viewers to performances by Miles Davis at the now-defunct Bohemian Caverns. This art show knits together two Washingtons — one homey, one grand 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The fact that he drove a truck or that he loved Miles Davis. Hollywood almost turned Colman Domingo 'bitter.' An unexpected role changed his life 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Then: Herbie Hancock’s Bowl debut in the 1960s as part of the Miles Davis Quintet, followed by more than 30 additional appearances at the venue. 8 ways the Hollywood Bowl is reviving historic stage moments for a modern audience 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z You have to create it live every evening, the way Miles Davis and the great jazz artists never just played what they played last night. Q&A: Mark Rylance on his still-evolving life in movies 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z This 40th anniversary class joins a roster of 165 previous honorees including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Quincy Jones. Billy Hart now has to acknowledge he really is a Jazz Master 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Here, in the bittern’s croak, in the turtle’s cluck and whine, in Miles Davis’s trumpet, is “evolution drunk on its own aesthetic energies.” Earth’s Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z His death made me think of what he wrote on Miles Davis’ passing in 1991: Who will inherit Greg Tate's mantle of Black cultural critic-in-chief? I have a candidate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Around sunset, the pianist at the glossy baby grand mixes and matches music through the years: Miles Davis, the Beatles, Blink-182. Restaurant review: Canlis’ first female chef is cause for all kinds of celebration 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Davis, who first recorded as Betty Mabry, got her last name from her one-year marriage to jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis. This week’s passages 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z By then, she had helped alter the trajectory of jazz through her relationship with trumpeter Miles Davis, whose name she kept long after their brief marriage ended in divorce. Betty Davis, free-spirited funk singer, dies at 77 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Her charisma drew the attention of both Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis, the latter of whom she married in 1968. Betty Davis, funk pioneer and former wife of Miles Davis, dies at 77 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The recordings she made with her ex-husband Miles Davis were shelved after they split, but she finally released her self-titled debut album in 1973, before disappearing from the music industry. Betty Davis: 'Godmother of Funk' dies aged 77 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The star, who was once married to jazz legend Miles Davis, died in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to a statement on her official website. Betty Davis, '70s funk icon, dead at 77 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z There are always classics, too, whether Blue Note reissues or a $100 Miles Davis original. These local record shops give you an analog break from a digital world 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Miller made another splash at the podium afterward, donning a black cowboy hat, a multi-color denim jacket, thick gold chains, diamond earrings, sunglasses and a black Miles Davis T-shirt for his press conference. "He’s a freak." Inside Odell Beckham Jr.'s trick pass, other big plays from Rams' win 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z It flows with the timing and rhythm of a great Miles Davis quintet. Kyrie Irving and Klay Thompson Are Returning. We Have Questions. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Her musical and fashion expression had no boundaries, and she influenced the likes of Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix. Betty Davis: 'Godmother of Funk' dies aged 77 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z For the first decade of his career, Mr. Harris stayed in Detroit, where he accompanied countless musicians appearing in the city’s jazz clubs, including Parker, trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist Lester Young. Barry Harris, jazz pianist who kept the spirit of bebop alive, dies at 91 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Where else can you browse albums by the Roots, Miles Davis and the Pharcyde, as well as comics and VHS tapes, then celebrate your new scores over crystal shrimp dumplings and cocktails? These local record shops give you an analog break from a digital world 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z With four employees, the neighborhood institution, its walls adorned with photos of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and other jazz greats, cleans uniforms for police officers, bus drivers, L.A. Inflation, supply chain, wages: Rising threats loom over small businesses 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Ron Carter, jazz bassist, educator, author, artistic director and a member of the Miles Davis Quintet. Photo essay: The ease and grace of Gucci I had been listening to Miles Davis, and ‘So What’ was in my mind too, and that gave me an idea for the horn line of ‘Cold Sweat.’ Pee Wee Ellis, who helped put the funk in James Brown’s music, dies at 80 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z He stood in the wings beside Miles Davis, the jazz trumpeter renowned for “Birth of the Cool” and “Kind of Blue” in the 1940s and 1950s, as the rock acts took the stage. George Wein, Newport music festival founder and innovative promoter, dies at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z “I didn’t like rock’s image. The people I liked were Miles Davis and Coleman Hawkins. I thought rock was dreadful.” Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer and band’s rhythmic mainstay, dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z A lover of painting and jazz — of Miles Davis and Picasso, both of whom had their “Blue” periods too — she knew the potency of tone: of finding the correct register of a feeling. In 1971, nothing sounded like Joni Mitchell's 'Blue.' 50 years later, it's still a miracle 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z In 1957, Mr. Fuller was briefly in Miles Davis’s band and made his first albums as a leader. Curtis Fuller, acclaimed jazz trombonist of hard-bop era, dies at 88 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z In his teens, Mr. Ellis was drawn to jazz, often playing saxophone alongside future trumpet star Chuck Mangione and jazz bassist Ron Carter, who later became a mainstay of the Miles Davis Quintet. Pee Wee Ellis, who helped put the funk in James Brown’s music, dies at 80 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z On the surface, Miles Davis plays coolly on a record player. The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z A ninth decade is a good time to acquire a new dog and name him Miles Davis, a tribute to the trumpeter whose magic it is never too late to discover. Opinion | What my 80 years have taught me 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z And it extended to the melancholy shimmer of the interstitial “Blue” — with its opening notes, inspired by Miles Davis, that she likened to a “muted trumpet tone.” In 1971, nothing sounded like Joni Mitchell's 'Blue.' 50 years later, it's still a miracle 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z He pulled up at Paisley Park in his Cadillac he called “Miles Davis” because of how black the car was. For Prince’s L.A. faithful, online fan groups still provide connection and comfort 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z I put on some Miles Davis and start a fire in the fireplace. The Pandemic Work Diary of Margo Price, Nashville Rebel 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z She was always reticent about her age, charity work and other personal details, like being a good-will ambassador for Unicef in 1985-86 and her marriage to Miles Davis, which ended in divorce. Cicely Tyson, an Actress Who Shattered Stereotypes, Dies at 96 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z A live European concert and a DVD of Prince’s 1987 New Year’s Eve gig with guest Miles Davis at the then-recently opened Paisley Park are testament to his spectacular prowess as a performer and bandleader. 12 great last-minute holiday gifts: Music and music books 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z As a youth, he taught himself to transcribe the records of saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Miles Davis and others while composing his own music. Andrew White, musician and music scholar, dies at 78 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The soprano vocalizes over a mesmerizing bolero, part Ravel, part Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain,” ever reminding of the cycles of history, hope and elation within reach, if only we’d try. Can music bring us unity? How Osvaldo Golijov's 'Ayre' is what we need now 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z She moved on to a management company in New York, working with the late jazz legend Miles Davis, the late rocker Lou Reed and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Ivy Bauer, Seattle music manager and promoter, dies at 72 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, he appeared in somewhat more traditional musical settings with pianist Bill Evans, trumpeter Miles Davis and drummer Tony Williams. Gary Peacock, jazz bassist who anchored Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio, dies at 85 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z They wrapped up on New Year's Eve at Prince's newly-built Paisley Park complex, where Miles Davis jumped on stage for a jam session. Prince's Sign O' The Times: An oral history 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, she had an affair with Miles Davis, caroused in St. Tropez with Orson Welles and inspired poet Jean-Paul Sartre. Juliette Greco, actress, singer and muse of postwar France, has died 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z He praised the beauty of trumpeter Miles Davis’s music from the 1950s and 1960s, but when Davis adopted a rock-influenced style in the 1970s, Mr. Crouch condemned the move as a betrayal of near-apocalyptic dimensions. Stanley Crouch, combative writer, intellectual and authority on jazz, dies at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Steve Grossman, 69, saxophonist who caught the jazz world’s attention at 18 when he was recruited by Miles Davis, died of cardiac arrest Aug. 13 in Glen Cove, New York. This week’s passages 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z He turned down offers from Miles Davis to join Davis’s band. A Jazz Drummer’s Fight to Keep His Own Heart Beating 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Miles Davis spotted Adderley and hired him to play on groundbreaking Davis albums “Milestones” and “Kind of Blue.” Rare Cannonball Adderley 1966 Seattle concerts going digital 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Miles Davis’s life and music were on the rise before the set was even over. Miles Davis, Newport 1955: the day of a sensational comeback 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool documentary Stanley Nelson’s 2019 documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool offers an intoxicating, if limited, overview of Davis’s life. Miles Davis: where to start in his back catalogue 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z He had 20,000 vinyl records at his home, by one count, and said he would have loved to own a horn played on by his idols Miles Davis or Ornette Coleman. Charles Lippincott, movie publicist and a force behind ‘Star Wars,’ dies at 80 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Jimmy Cobb, the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album that transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday. Jimmy Cobb, 'Kind of Blue' drummer for Miles Davis, dead at 91 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Same for the 1970 Oscar-nominated documentary about the first black heavyweight champion, which largely normalizes the blatant discrimination Johnson endured but is at least worth a listen for the Miles Davis soundtrack. Column: A look at some of the best sports documentaries 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z It kickstarted Miles Davis’s faltering career, and announced the arrival of a restless genius who would shape and reshape jazz for the next 30 years. Miles Davis, Newport 1955: the day of a sensational comeback 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Kind of Blue isn’t just the best introduction to Miles Davis, it’s the best introduction to jazz as a whole, an album that typifies the genre’s musical freedom, haunting gospel tone and restless adventure. Miles Davis: where to start in his back catalogue 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z But he was perhaps best known as one of the musicians on Miles Davis's landmark album Birth Of The Cool. Jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz dies with coronavirus 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “Probably it would be Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue,’ ” Weir said. Even astronauts get ornery: Coronavirus advice from those who have endured social distancing in the extreme 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z His uncle Bobby Dominick was a banjo and guitar player who “looked like a million dollars every time I saw him,” Mr. Pizzarelli told George Cole, author of the Miles Davis history “The Last Miles.” Bucky Pizzarelli, whose guitar mastery extended to seven strings, dies at 94 of coronavirus 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Aged 23, he met his hero Miles Davis, after playing in an ensemble for a retrospective concert as Davis collected an honorary degree. Wallace Roney, US jazz trumpeter, dies aged 59 from coronavirus 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Above all, she was a productive and independent artist who lived by Miles Davis’s creed that “an artist’s first duty is to himself” — or herself — come what may. Opinion | Lessons From My Grandma on Art, Sex and Life 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z In a 1968 Downbeat “Blindfold Test,” the Flag’s first album was practically the only disc that Miles Davis liked, and he later used its bassist, Harvey Brooks, on his recordings. Calendar Feedback March 15: Jazz-rock’s pioneer? Reader smells a rat 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z American Masters Stanley Nelson’s Grammy Award-winning documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” takes a clear-eyed look at the musical legend. What's on TV Tuesday, Feb. 25: 'For Life' and Democratic Debate in South Carolina 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z It helped that Clive Davis, the head of Miles Davis’s record company, Columbia, secured gigs for the band at the Fillmore East. 'It sounded like the future': behind Miles Davis's greatest album 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z “Because to me, it’s no comparison. Miles Davis is the greatest ever. What I’m trying to do is continue and push forward from the lessons I learned from him and try to play this music.” Wallace Roney, US jazz trumpeter, dies aged 59 from coronavirus 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The rocking comes in complicated, intricate ways that require as much attending to as, say, Miles Davis’ concerts at the Fillmore did. Review: The L.A. Phil, as only it can, delivers a long weekend of 'Apollo' and 'Flower Power' 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z He chose the stage name Sonny Miles in honor of jazz players Sonny Stitt and Miles Davis. North Carolina musician lands on Barack Obama’s playlist 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z After his death in 1991, at the age of 65, Davis's estate took his paintings on the road, and in 2013, Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork was published. Britney Spears lands first art exhibition 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z It was Seattle’s ninth game of the season, and his improvisation looked akin to watching Miles Davis in full flight while the opposing defense was playing basic keys. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Russell Wilson 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Sons Herman, a future state legislator, and Arthur “Buddy” Gist Jr., a future protege of blues man Miles Davis, grew up there. Daughter helps restore historic North Carolina house 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z In fact, Rats rates as one of the first-ever fusion albums, along with works recorded in the same year by Miles Davis and the Tony Williams Lifetime. 'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z He asked me if I knew that Miles Davis had white musicians in his band “because he didn’t want the music to be too black.” David Hammons Follows His Own Rules 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Last but not least, without blowing his own trumpet, it's fair to say seminal US jazz musician Miles Davis produced some pretty impressive artwork too, late on in his career. Britney Spears lands first art exhibition 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Hunter had been to the Monterey Jazz Festival earlier in the year, headlined by Miles Davis and Sly and the Family Stone. Don’t look back: The story of Altamont, the rock festival that the ’60s want to forget 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z In the 1970s, down-and-out jazz trumpeter Miles Davis tries to recover his new session tape from music producers. Movies on TV this week: 'Casablanca,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Terminator' and more 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He references Miles Davis, the late trumpeter, as he describes his process. Mark Bradford is one of the most important artists of our time. But you have to look beyond his canvases to see why. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Fox News: What compelled you to launch this “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” now? Miles Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. cried after seeing doc on star's triumphs, personal demons 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Books like Miles Davis’s autobiography or John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me” were natural touchstones, he thought. The Book of Prince 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Documentary profiles the iconic and iconoclastic jazz trumpeter and bandleader. New movies in L.A. this week: 'Official Secrets' with Keira Knightley and more 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z The only surviving musician who performed on Miles Davis’ jazz masterpiece “Kind of Blue” is still keeping time as the recording marks its 60th anniversary. ‘Kind of Blue’ drummer still keeping time as album turns 60 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z With the humor of “Seinfeld” and the exquisite sadness of Miles Davis’s “Flamenco Sketches.” Perspective | I am an uppity immigrant. Don’t expect me to be ‘grateful.’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z When Miles Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. saw the newest documentary exploring the life of the late trumpeter, his eyes swelled with tears. Miles Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. cried after seeing doc on star's triumphs, personal demons 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Most at ease in small groups, Miles Davis was also a poetic soloist in concerto-like roles with a big band. Miles Davis's 20 greatest albums – ranked! 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Lang found hidden melodic cores in Bill Evans’ “Peace Piece” and Miles Davis’ “Flamenco Sketches” and hidden harmonic ones underlying Charlie Parker’s “Bird Paradise” and Jerome Kern’s “All the Things You Are.” Commentary: L.A. needs a summer music festival. Piano Spheres and Monday Evening Concerts show the way 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The collection of 4 million images chronicles the civil rights movement and the lives of prominent figures such as Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali, Nina Simone, and Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral. Ebony and Jet photo archive sale sparks relief, anxiety 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z That would be like a young trumpet player listening to Miles Davis. LOVERRO: Whitaker was a musician in the ring with a style never to be duplicated 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” first premiered at Sundance earlier this year and is now making its way to theaters in New York and Los Angeles before debuting in various parts of the country. Miles Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. cried after seeing doc on star's triumphs, personal demons 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In the end, Miles Davis would fascinate jazz, rock and classical fans alike. Miles Davis's 20 greatest albums – ranked! 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z They eliminated Miles Davis’ “Summertime,” even though it was the product of a black musician playing the work of a white composer. Review: The Voyager spacecraft holds a golden record for aliens. 'Vinyl Frontier' tells why 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Miles Davis once said that João’s delivery was so hypnotic that he “would sound good reading a newspaper.” An evening with João Gilberto, the bright wallflower of bossa nova 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z His three-hour tribute to Miles Davis was a musical sermon that wove Leibowitz’s narration into a chronological survey of highlights from across the trumpeter’s copious discography. Bo Leibowitz, longtime KCRW 'Strictly Jazz' host, dies at 74 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z She hopped around genres before it became fashionable to do so, exploring folk, jazz, roots and rock and absorbing the influences of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Miles Davis and Betty Carter. Ani DiFranco: 'I'm sorry if I'm not what you need me to be' 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z “Herbie was the step after Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk,” Miles Davis wrote in his autobiography. Herbie Hancock: 'I felt like I stood on the shoulders of giants and now it's my turn' 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z And since it’s my dream day, hey, look at that — Tom Waits and Miles Davis show up to play an amazing performance. Drew Schneider’s perfect day in D.C. is an ode to Petworth 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s just that Brubeck — like Miles Davis, like the Beatles, like Bach — will endure. My secret to conducting an orchestra: Flail my arms and close my eyes till it's over 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z This is not Miles Davis; he does not turn his back to the audience. Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Nelson’s latest film is “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” a portrait of the definitive jazz musician that has been some 15 years in the making. Indie Focus: Wrapping up the Sundance Film Festival 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z |
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