Miles Davis

I was a couple of months into my freshman year of college when I first listened to Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. I always heard that this was one of those records that you needed to listen to, especially if you considered yourself a jazz buff. I distinctly remember queueing it…

How 60s radicalism sparked an artistic explosion, and how neoliberalism killed it. — “The music in this album is dedicated to creating a better world; a world without war and killing, without racism, without poverty and exploitation; a world where men of all governments realize the vital importance of life and strive to protect rather than destroy it. …

“The real music is silence and all the notes just frame that silence.” Miles Davis — Miles Dewey Davis III, also known as Miles Davis, was born on 26 May 1926 in Alton, Illinois, on the banks of the Mississippi River. He was the son of Miles Dewey Davis, a dental surgeon, and Cleota Henry Davis, a piano and violin player. At the age of ten…

Kind of Blue | Miles Davis |Columbia | August 1959 | 46 Minutes ©Published by Steve Yip, MainlyPiano.com, February 12, 2022 Kind of Blue is one of the all-time great musical works of the modern era! I think most people know the name, Miles Davis. Especially if you are somewhat…

Miles Davis’ heroin addiction and alcoholism are all well known and well documented. However, Nelson frames this period as resulting from Davis’ return to a reality in which he was not wanted but his music was. The documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool opened up the world of one…