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HISTORICAL FACTS: Miles davis | History Defined

Breitling’s new Navitimer watch pays tribute to Miles Davis by reimagining the model he originally wore

Breitling celebrates one of the most iconic jazz musicians with new limited edition watch

RIP Jay Maisel: the New York photographer who shot one of history's most iconic album covers, made masterful use of light and color, and loved to pass on his knowledge to others

The photographer for Miles Davis' famed album, Kind of Blue, was a mentor to many

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16 of the best movie scores to test your system

Test your home cinema and your hi-fi to the max with these sensational film scores.

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TV tonight: Brooke Shields stars in a silly murder-mystery comedy

A novelist and a podcaster are an unlikely crime-solving team in You’re Killing Me. Plus: get ready to cry over a robot. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

I’m Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical review – Queen of Funk’s jukebox epic lacks the X factor

Alexandra Burke is valiant in the leading role but the superstar’s story is squandered in this sprawling and uneven show

The Guardian - UK

I'm Every Woman – The Chaka Khan Musical: Tedious and utterly un-funky

1/5 This musical about the life of the music legend at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre hits a succession of wrong notes

Evening Standard

Brian Case obituary

Other lives: Much admired writer on music and the arts for the NME, Melody Maker and Time Out

The Guardian - UK

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“One day I was in an elevator with Miles Davis and he said, ‘Hey, do you got a wah wah yet?’ ‘No, I don’t play a wah wah.’ He says, ‘You gotta get a wah wah!’”: Carlos Santana on Miles and McLaughlin, Hendrix and SRV, and his quest for eternal melody

“I wanted my guitar to sound like a female – like the voice of my favourite singers”

MusicRadar

‘I saw Herbie Hancock play with D’Angelo, and got my head blown off!’: the festival keeping alive jazz’s golden age

From Miles Davis to Count Basie and Etta James to Prince, Rotterdam’s North Sea jazz festival has hosted the biggest names in music. As the event turns 50, musicians and organisers share their favourite memories from past years – and tell us why jazz isn’t dead

The Guardian - UK

Jazz à Vienne celebrates late Miles Davis for 45th edition

In this edition of arts24, Marjorie Hache is in the town of Vienne in southeastern France, where the 45th edition of "Jazz à Vienne" is taking place. Headliners include the likes of Jon Batiste, Marcus Miller, Buena Vista Social Club and Jeff Mills. The festival is also shining a spotlight…

France 24

“When I heard Wes, it killed me. The guy played with his thumb, and it’s all downstrokes, which means it’s twice the effort, but he was still so fast it just smoked me!”: The jazz classic that Nile Rodgers named as his favourite guitar track of all time

“It made me realise that the guitar was something unique and special”

MusicRadar

Alicia Keys pays heartfelt tribute to Clive Davis: ‘He changed my life forever’

The Girl On Fire singer, 45, praised Davis for believing in her from the ‘very beginning’ after signing her to his record label when she was 18 years.

Evening Standard

Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith pay tribute to Clive Davis

The media executive, and former president of Columbia Records, launched a number of artists’ careers, including Whitney Houston’s.

Evening Standard

Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else

The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry forever

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Kamasi Washington at Harry Styles' Meltdown: A jazz colossus

5/5 Kamasi Washington paid tribute to John Coltrane and Miles Davis in the first of two shows at Harry Style’s Meltdown

Louder

"I remember looking at him and thinking: 'This guy's gonna die.'" Robben Ford's wild tales of Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Kiss, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and more

Session guitarist extraordinaire Robben Ford got high with George Harrison, hit on by Barry Manilow, yelled at by Miles Davis, blanked by Bob Dylan and headhunted by Gene Simmons... and these are his stories

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Gordon Wood's Enduring Defense of the American Revolution

Plus: When tattoos meet copyright law

Bangkok Post

The sound of Brazil in the Northeast

In 1989, I bought a fascinating compilation of forro music from Brazil, Music For Maids And Taxi Drivers (Rounder Records, USA/Globestyle, UK). The music on it bubbled with an infectious dance beat that was created by sanfona (accordion), zabuma (big bass drum) and metal triangle.

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“He was extremely let down by his manager. The guy ripped him off of so much money. To get Peter to talk about that, it was very painful”: Behind the scenes of the Peter Frampton documentary

How Frampton documentary director Rob Arthur helped the iconic guitarist come alive on the big screen

The Guardian - UK

Miles Davis’s superior musical intelligence

Letters: Dr Richard Carter and Meirion Bowen respond to an editorial which argues that the musician still shapes modern music 100 years after his birth

The Conversation

Sonny Rollins the last great of the jazz era dies

I once met the late jazz musician Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins (1930 to 2026). It was in the mid 90s on Manhattan’s 48th street at Rod Baltimore’s New York Woodwind and Brass Center. The shop had the best repair department so there were always some serious players around.

The Conversation

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is the highest selling jazz record of all time – he thought it was a failure

There are many things about Miles Davis to remember as we mark 100 years since his birth. There’s the 1950s and 60s elegance and lyricism, with his Harmon muted trumpet, the tone of which was once said to sound like “a man walking on eggshells”. There’s his badass attitude taking…

The Guardian - UK

Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings

After his death aged 95, we look back at a remarkable catalogue of work that stretches from vivacious mid-50s sets to his evocative performance after 9/11

The Guardian - UK

Sonny Rollins obituary

One of the great American jazz saxophonists regarded as an improvising genius by fans all over the world

France 24

Celebrating a century of the magician of jazz, Miles Davis

One hundred years after the late Miles Davis was born, the revolutionary trumpet player remains one of the 20th century's most influential artists. We look back at the life and legacy of a complex, visionary figure with one of his collaborators, musician Jason Miles, who recorded the albums "Tutu", "Music…

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