Miles Davis

...gone over to his stereo system and, as he always did, asked if we had any preferences. Did anyone want some Beatles? Some Miles Davis? Some Dylan? As usual we expressed our strong preferences in the mildest terms. "I wouldn't mind some Dylan"," said John who...

...Obama's turn. The 72-year-old singer on abortion rights, barbequed bologna, and the connection between Hank Williams and William Shakespeare. If durability and longevity are cool, consider yourself Miles Davis. The Esquire fashion director will now take your...

...it's Obama's turn. The 72-year-old singer on abortion rights, barbequed bologna, and the connection between Hank Williams and William Shakespeare. If durability and longevity are cool, consider yourself Miles Davis. The Esquire fashion director will now take...

...was the subject of an episode of The South Bank Show. Mr Poole, who has also arranged exhibitions of work by John Lennon and Miles Davis, also staged the last Ronnie Wood exhibition in Edinburgh four years ago. He said: "My whole philosophy is proving to the...

...saxophone player Lee Konitz was cool before cool even existed. I mean that literally. He played alto sax in Miles Davis’ band on the seminal Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records back in 1949 and 1950. Critics have heralded these tracks as an important...

...artists Turtle Island interprets, has grown to hold a similar revered spot in the musical cannon. Artists such as Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk have been elevated to near deity status. Yet the forms couldn’t be more diametrically...

...extremes in On The Corner with tablaist Badal Roy. Mahanthappa is coming more out of Charlie Parker, with knowledge of Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, Henry Threadgill and Steve Coleman. Rez Abassi has played rock and blues,...

...Stones, David Bowie and Genesis. He also produced recordings of the musicals Hello, Dolly! and Cinderella. 12 Earl Lee Nelson, 79, singer. Mr. Nelson was half of the 1960s singing soul duo Bob and Earl who wrote and recorded the hit “Harlem Shuffle.” Mr....

...a musician old enough to have toured with the Count Basie band, backed up Elvis Presley at Sicks Stadium and played with Eric Dolphy when the saxophonist was stationed in Fort Lewis in the 1950s might be getting up there in years. To which Bill Ramsay replied,...

...Hepburn) persuades rugged riverboat captain (Humphrey Bogart) to attack a German warship. Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Showgirl (Petula Clark) gains the affections of a schoolteacher (Peter O'Toole). Any new year means new wishes. Here are six movies that haven't...

...these musicians made it on to the New Year honours list and is set to receive a CBE for services to music? 6. Jazz musician Freddie Hubbard died this week aged 70, following a career of collaborating with the likes of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and John...

...some of the most important jazz albums of the 1960s, including Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage," Coleman's "Free Jazz," Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch," Coltrane's "Ascension," Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil" and his own classic, "Ready for Freddie." However,...

...Mr. Hubbard did a great many things brilliantly: He was working with avant-garde musicians (John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy) almost from the beginning, and later made a pile for himself in the burgeoning field of jazz-rock fusion; he could play...

...films (like Lawrence of Arabia and Casablanca) in your suite, and take home a gift box of some of his favorite books, including Moby Dick, and music, with CDs of Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and the Fugees. You'll also get a copy of Obama's memoir, Dreams from My...

...minds with "Clutch Cargo." While their parents listened to Miles Davis--or Arthur Godfrey.  And Jack Kerouac turned up on Steve Allen's TV show. Comments are moderated, and will not appear until they've been approved. If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account,...

...Monk's music they turn to him for help. Monk brushes them off: "Aren't you the great Coleman Hawkins? Aren't you the great John Coltrane? Then, if you're so great, you should be able to figure it out on your own." Monk was tough and uncompromising. But he...

...tragedian who wants him dead. And we have Sylvia Plath Must Not Die, where the contenders are the suicidal Sylvia and Anne Sexton, her friend and fellow scribbler, who wants her alive. Or at least who wishes that Sylvia would refrain from suicide until she...

...saw Method Man in 1994 at Valley Dale. Adina Howard opened. She performed with her backside facing the audience the whole time. Not quite a regulae Miles Davis because she would look over her shoulder into the crowd. Which if you think about it…Singing while...

...of the interviewees in Doc voice similar sentiments, noting their affection for the man along with their own frustrations. Norman Mailer calls him brilliant, “at bottom, more vain, more intellectually arrogant than I was at the time” (and, just think for a...

...abroad only after establishing themselves at home," writes HBS professor Daniel J. Isenberg in this month's issue of Harvard Business Review. "Standing conventional theory on its head, start-ups now do business in many countries before dominating their home...

...at once whimsical and, oddly, bittersweet. "The soundtrack of my life," as the artist described it, included records by Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Fleetwood Mac. He listened to each one last time before engineering its reincarnation; the piece...

...Still he assumed that his efforts would at least give his daughter, 10, an extraordinary musical grounding. "Now she likes Miley Cyrus," he says, sheepishly. "Elis Regina is a Brazilian singer who is hardly known in this country," he says. "She's one of...

...of Blue is also a litmus test — if you don't like it, you probably don't like jazz. (Hey, anything's possible.) In 1959, Dave Brubeck's Time Out sold more, but Kind of Blue had the impact. Its slow and medium-tempo improvisations based on modes rather than...

MILES APART: Miles Davis in the studio for Kind of Blue, which has been re-released in an elaborate 50th anniversary edition. I thought I had reached the point of no return with Kind of Blue. Having listened to the classic 1959 Miles Davis album so

...else,' " he says. "The minute you do that you put a target on your back." Some of the choices cry out for dispute. Does Alice Cooper really belong? Chicago? Rick James? But each of the records in the book is accompanied by a compelling argument for its worth. ...

...and demand and the fact that demand for Mozart’s Greatest Hits is dramatically lower than it might be for, say, the latest Coldplay or Nickelback release, I can walk out of the music store with four double-CDs in my hand and still have spent under $20. Gone...