Jazz Articles about Miles Davis

Miles Davis - Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964

by Jim Santella
September 22, 2004

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Miles Davis Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings Of Miles Davis, 1963-1964 Columbia Legacy 2004

Seven discs paint a pretty good picture of the sound that Miles Davis gave us back then.

Some of the master's mid-'60s material has not been previously issued. As had been the case time and again, the Miles ...

Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964

by John Kelman
September 22, 2004

Eagerly anticipated, Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 documents the emergence of Miles' second great quintet, featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. It demonstrates, over the course of seven discs and seven hours, how critical each member of that quintet was. As the group coalesces over a period of two years it's tangible how everything falls into place, like a set of tumblers on a complicated lock.

Kind of Blue

by Imani Tolliver
August 26, 2004

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The Miles Davis Story

by Colin Fleming
July 10, 2004

A virulent sort of man with a bent for misogyny, selfishness, and a deep rooted, almost fanatical racism, Miles Davis, as his music asserted and any thoughtful analysis confirms, was also one of jazz's three or four greatest artists, an individual belonging to group of men with sublime and graceful talent who also happen to embody the Byronic dictate of “mad, bad, and dangerous to know." For anyone who's read Davis' autobiography, this biopic is chiefly notable for ...

Miles Davis and Sonny Stitt: Jazz Time: Olympia

by Samuel Chell
April 9, 2004

On page 249 of his autobiography, Miles Davis recounts driving around Philly with Jimmy Heath, recalling that he “probably was complaining to him about Sonny Stitt playing the wrong [stuff] on 'So What,' because he would always [mess] up on that tune."The marvel is that Miles called on Stitt to replace Coltrane in the first place. But Wayne Shorter wanted to stay on with Art Blakey, so the most complete and polished bebop player of them all, a ...

Kinds of 'do: The Story of Miles Davis' Hair

by Eric J. Iannelli
April 1, 2004

Kinds of 'do: The Story of Miles Davis' Hair Ken CheveuxSchneider & Haar Publishers 2004

If you were too preoccupied with the master trumpeter's playing, you might have overlooked what more style-conscious fans noticed all along: Miles Davis' coif changed almost as radically as his music over the course of his five-decade career. Starting out in the clean-cut mold of the Birth of the Cool days, Davis' hair later thinned and morphed ...

Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'eschafaud

by John Kelman
March 19, 2004

With the original soundtrack issued as side one of the 1958 Columbia LP release, Jazz Tracks , the complete session from Miles Davis' soundtrack recording to the 1958 Louis Malle film, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud has been out of print on CD for many years. Now Universal Music France has rectified that situation, reissuing the complete session in a beautiful 24-bit/96 kHz remastered version in a digipack complete with session photos and liner notes. Representing a more intimate and spontaneous side ...