Miles Smiles

Buried within Miles Davis’ Complete Columbia Album Collection is the stunning Live in Europe ’67 DVD.

"...Miles Davis’ Complete Columbia Records Album Collection has been reduced..."

Dec. 23, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Miles and Miles of Miles

The Columbia Legacy

"...Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie slay the hometown audience, Miles Dewey Davis knew exactly what he had to do...."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...In Miles Davis' autobiography, one of the mightiest forces in music,..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Trawling Panthalassa

Sound Sorcerer Bill Laswell Takes Miles Davis

"...now also refers to the latest release from Columbia's Miles Davis tape vaults. Spanning 1969-1974, one of Davis' more..."

May 1, 1998 Music Feature by David Lynch

Aural History

Jeff Lofton, son of an Army drill instructor, sure doesn’t play trumpet like one – or does he?

"...his silver horn. "Never bashful of his admiration for Miles Davis, he's crafted a sound largely around Davis' formative..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Miles Davis Quintet

Box sets as catalog ghetto

"...Miles Davis QuintetLive Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Miles Davis with John Coltrane The Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia)

Reissues

"...Miles Davis with John ColtraneThe Complete Columbia Recordings (Columbia) Miles..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

John Coltrane

"...sideman for the label (separate from his albums with Miles Davis' Quintet). This beautifully packaged, extensively annotated 5-CD set..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

Sheet music

"...as principle composer and front-line foil in the incomparable Miles Davis Quintet of the mid/late Sixties, and as pioneer..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Critics Poll

"...Trachtenberg: Miles Davis Quintet, The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (Prestige)Best SoundtrackBeets:..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature

Reissues

"...helping hands (Ry Cooder, Howard Johnson, and Jesse Ed Davis among them). Put the two together and things get..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Ascension of an Icon

Marketing John Coltrane

"...a full head of steam in 1955 with the Miles Davis Quintet and steadily evolved toward the sky until..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Feature

Punjabi Powerhouse: Red Baraat

Brooklynites connect Indian and New Orleans brass bands

"...player as well, and grew up with bebop, Sixties Miles Davis Quintet, and other modern and contemporary jazz. So..."

April 5, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Critics Poll

"...Miles Davis Quintet, Live Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol.1..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Music Feature

John Coltrane

"...his fabled sessions as a member of the incomparable Miles Davis Quintet. These are primarily one-off, freewheeling "blowing sessions"..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...compared the Red Hot Chili Peppers to the legendary Miles Davis quintet of the mid to late Fifties in..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Column

Stop Hernandez

"...compared the Red Hot Chili Peppers to the legendary Miles Davis quintet of the mid to late Fifties in..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Postmarks

Music Critic's Poll 1998

"...Live at the Lighthouse Stevie Nicks, Enchanted box set Miles Davis Quintet 1965-'68 Best Soundtrack The Power and the..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Music Feature

Jazz Sides

"...DAVE HOLLAND QUINTET..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Music Feature

Live Through This!

The Semi-Annual Rock & Roll Round-up

"...A Miles Davis Reader edited by Bill Kirchner (Smithsonian Institution Press,..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Feature

Reissues

"...Blakey's Jazz Messengers and later replaced John Coltrane in Miles Davis' band. His major influences were Charlie Parker and..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Family Affair

Akina Adderley adds her name to the family ledger

"...Jazz counts it among its essential names, stamped on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue for starters. On this particular..."

June 10, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...and Tony Williams were doing advanced rhythmic calculus in Miles Davis' most famous quintet. By the early Seventies, he..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Miles Davis

Gift guide

"...Miles DavisSeven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...hour-long session with New York's Unsane. When this venerable quintet has had their way with you, you'll be ready..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Herbie Hancock

Box Set

"...Herbie Hancock took the baton handed to him by Miles Davis and sprinted into the future. A member of..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...a self-booked month of West Coast dates, this Austin-to-Chicago quintet ought to be hungry in more ways than one..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Infinity and Beyond

Return to Forever captain Chick Corea takes his Millennium Falcon out of mothballs

"...Santamaria, the 66-year-old Massachusetts native replaced Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis' band for a two-year stint, 1968-1970, contributing to..."

May 23, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Miles Davis

Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary

"...Miles DavisBitches Brew: 40th Anniversary (Sony/Legacy)..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Only the Beginning

Wednesday Night SXSW "Sleepers"

"...industrial-sounding name and the Seattle address conjure up something miles from this band's sound - eight miles, you could..."

March 13, 1998 Music Feature

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