Don Cheadle learned to play trumpet:
With the music—I know you mentioned that you play the saxophone—will you be playing the trumpet in the movie?Yeah.You will? You’ll be playing his songs yourself?No. I’m not going to be, we’re going to be using Miles Davis playing. [Laughs] We’re not going to do a movie with the rights to his music and not have him playing.We’re going to use his recordings. I’ve learned how to play. There will be elements of me playing the movie but when it comes to the pieces that are Miles Davis playing, it will be Miles Davis.
You will? You’ll be playing his songs yourself?No. I’m not going to be, we’re going to be using Miles Davis playing. [Laughs] We’re not going to do a movie with the rights to his music and not have him playing.
We’re going to use his recordings. I’ve learned how to play. There will be elements of me playing the movie but when it comes to the pieces that are Miles Davis playing, it will be Miles Davis.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Good to read that it'll mostly focus on the intense gym routines he enjoyed in his later years and will heavily feature music from his early albums Workin', Steamin', Liftin' and Pumpin'.
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Not to mention Stretches of Spain.
Kind of blew out my arms during that epic lift sesh
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
The idea of a miles biopic that concentrates exclusively on 1975-1979 is amazing. No flashbacks, just a dark house and occasional visits from Herbie Hancock and Lester Bowie.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
you guys are tripping. Miles used to box
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
he def had biceps.
also this must be based on eric nisiensen's stories, in part.
http://www.amazon.com/Round-About-Midnight-Portrait-Miles/dp/0306806843
this was the first Miles bio I read .. he used to hang out w/ Miles all the time during that era
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J2i_zouRBH8/T-dKD592yLI/AAAAAAAAGfs/MoX-ypwdfek/s1600/Arnaud+Baumann+~+Miles+Davis,+ca.+1980.jpg
Miles, late 70s/v. early 80s
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Actually, that photo is from somewhere around 1989-90; it's from the same photo session that yielded the album cover of Doo-Bop, which was released in 1991. This is a picture of Miles in the late '60s/early '70s:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jd80_x84iUE/TqSYqpD-UhI/AAAAAAAAAjU/SVSe7pWG5xU/s1600/miles-davis3.jpg
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Based on the sunglasses, I'd guess that photo is '73/'74; he's wearing the same glasses on the cover of Get Up With It.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
lol thought he looked old, Google lied to me
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
i guess he does have muscles on the cover of jack johnson too, but he sure looks like a skinny motherfucker in a bunch of photos from later in the decade
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2010/9/2/1283425873645/Miles-Davis-Muhammad-Ali-006.jpg
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
ok fuck this biopic shit and let's change the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJDi1gQZu8
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
I ran across this at my local library:
http://www.amazon.com/Live-Europe-1969-Bootleg-Series/dp/B008YCMM2AMD Quintet live in Europe 1969.
It is as awesome as you would expect with generally good-to-very-good sounding recordings.Also the dvd is a nice bonus.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
lolhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLu5mk4VAAAJ0nW.png:large
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
who is spc
― marcos, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
sony pictures classics
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
pics look crazy but kent jones loved it, fwiw
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
haha, i was posting because of the "iconic singer" bit in the release...
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
Script notes:
-- Love the outline, just curious: Does he have to play trumpet? Not a problem, we can keep it, it's just ... you know how people get all puffy-cheeked when they play trumpet? Kinda gross. Just a thought.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 6 August 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
iconic singer is funny cos i don't think MIles was supposed to talk above a whisper for years. Apparently he had throat surgery after he had nodes on his larynx or something and I think he lost his temper at somebody during a 2 week or something period that he was supposed to rest his voice. Shouted and wrecked his ability to talk, or so the story goes. I wonder what his singing would have been like otherwise. Might have been an interesting aspect to hear him vocalise as well
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 August 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
Don Cheadle's last two tweets:
1. It wouldn't be entirely correct to call this a biopic
SteveKUVO @SteveKUVO 3h3 hours agoDenver's East High grad @IamDonCheadle debuts #MilesDavis biopic in NYC this Oct. http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=2783 …
Don Cheadle @IamDonCheadle 3h3 hours ago@SteveKUVO Not a biopic, but thanks for the shout out!
2. but it's totally fair to call miles a singer
Subliminal Threat. @tallblackguy 2h2 hours agoDoes @IamDonCheadle know that the studio putting out his film thinks Miles Davis is a singer?0 retweets 0 favorites
Don Cheadle @IamDonCheadle@tallblackguy He was. Listen to singers talk about his playing.10:30 AM - 6 Aug 2015
― da croupier, Thursday, 6 August 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
I always loved Miles' singing on his album of Jack Johnson covers.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 6 August 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
kent jones loved it, fwiw
Kent Jones also loves the Zemeckis movie recreating the WTC wire walk fwiw
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 August 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
lmao xp
― marcos, Thursday, 6 August 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
I just started going through Amazon reccommendations and found out that there was a date from the Japanese tour that gave us Agharta & Pangaea, recorded 12 days earlier. It just came out on Hi hat last month. Hadn't heard anything about it as far as I can remember.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 August 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
the tokyo shows? must be a european import/bootleg. i think that's basically the kinda label hi-hat is.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Disc 1Sorry, slightly out, must have got the 12 from it being 22nd or something, still somewhat fluey, like.This i sthe Amazon description plus some info supplied from a review
On his tour of Japan in early 1975, Miles Davis presented some of the most searing, electric fusion ever heard in concert. The performances on this 2CD set, FM broadcast, hail from a January 22 gig at Shinjuku Kohseinenkin Hall in Tokyo. Staged ten days earlier than the February 1 shows at which his Agharta and Pangaea LPs were recorded, this includes some songs not contained on those albums, and spotlights one of the most adventurous bands Davis assembled. 1. Prelude & Funk (21:47) 1st set2. Maiysha (15:45) 1st set3. Ife (18:21) 2nd set
Disc 2
1. Mtume (4:11) 2nd set2. Turnaroundphrase (5:19) 2nd set3. Tune In 5 (4:06) 2nd set4. Untitled (10:26) - actually "Hip Skip" 2nd set
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
So slightly out that I can't edit properly so Disc 1 appears above where it was supposed to.
always thought that gig was June 19th 1975, will check when I'm home
all those gigs have been on DIME for years afaict
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
JUst found that I have it already from Dime or somewhere. Just about to have it come on.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Also have 23rd and a couple of Febrary dates.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 6, 2015 1:37 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol ty for this. i can't tell if it's building on a simmering jgl-centric dispute between us. i actually noted this when it got announced for nyff & it made me check my reflex cynicism! i'm pretty curious.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 6 August 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
wrong thread?
here's the info for the Tokyo show I have:
Miles DavisJune 19, 1973Shinjuku Kosei Nenkin HallTokyo, Japan
Disc One:1. Turnaroundphrase - 12:462. Tune in 5 - 9:233. Right Off - 1:204. Funk - 10:445. Unknown F - 10:42
Disc Two:1. Ife - 22:152. Agharta Prelude - 9:483. Zimbabwe (faded during Mtume conga solo) - 13:33
Musicians:Miles Davis - trumpet, organDave Liebman - tenor & soprano saxophonesPete Cosey - guitar, percussionReggie Lucas - guitarMichael Henderson - bassJames "Mtume" Heath - congas, rhythm box, African percussionAl Foster - drums
Source:pre-FM broadcast reel
LineageReel >? >bootleg CD > CDR >EAC >FLAC Frontend
― sleeve, Friday, 7 August 2015 05:17 (eight years ago) link
so '73, not '75
― sleeve, Friday, 7 August 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
No that hi hat is from the same tour as Agharta/Pangaea in 75. I was listening to the circulated bootleg last night. It's one of a few dates from that tour I have.Also got a couple of NYC from the same year. He retired for a few years at some point that year.
― Stevolende, Friday, 7 August 2015 06:40 (eight years ago) link
Also forgot to mention there's video of I think the Tokyo show from that 73 tour. I know I had it, not sure if I still do.
― Stevolende, Friday, 7 August 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/davis-miles-live-in-tokyo-1975-2cd/HH.012CD.html
― tylerw, Friday, 7 August 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
1/22/75 was out previously ashttp://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Disco.aspx?id=AnotherUnity
― Brakhage, Saturday, 8 August 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
So is this 1-22-75 set on HiHat worth buying? Amazon prices for it are ok; mainly wondering about sound quality, since it's FM broadcast (like a home tape?)
― dow, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
of course would also be nice if the performances are distinctively good
― dow, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Is it worth getting if you've already got Agharta and Pangaea? (I've got 80s Japanese imports of Dark Magus and Black Beauty, for that matter; not lacking for this era of Miles, but could use some more, if it's good)
― dow, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
Everything from that era is good, for Pete Cosey as much as (if not more than, sometimes) for Miles. I have that concert under the title Another Unity.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
First clip from the Cheadle bio-pic:http://www.indiewire.com/article/don-cheadle-tries-to-hit-the-right-notes-in-new-clip-from-nyff-closer-miles-ahead-20151008
I'm already ia at seeing an AKG d112 bass drum microphone being used to mic a trumpet section (and several decades before that model of mic existed).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
https://media4.giphy.com/media/TbGwrJaWc9fLG/200_s.gif
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
lol, they probably wanted that vintage ribbon mic look and that was the closest thing they had lying around.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
I can't tell a whole lot from that clip, but I can't say it looks bad.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
The casting still bugs me; Cheadle looks more like Sammy Davis Jr. than he does Miles. I would have preferred to see Michael Wright as Miles. But I guess it's Cheadle's project, so...
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
idg why anyone makes these movies, they're so pointless
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
Can someone help me out by identifying this woman? This is from near the end of the American Masters documentary. I need her name for something. I'm sure she's identified earlier in the film, but I don't want to rewatch the whole thing right now.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/birth.JPG
(Terribly photographed with a camera, because you can't take screenshots from Netflix.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link
Is it Frances Taylor? I feel like she was interviewed quite a bit in that.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 19 March 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
She is, but it's not her (she appears directly after that scene and is identified). I think I'll have to watch the film again--my friend, who interviewed Davis in the late '80s, wasn't sure either. They must identify her earlier in the film.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 March 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
Marguerite Cantu
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 20 March 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
Yes! Many thanks.
― clemenza, Monday, 20 March 2023 01:54 (one year ago) link
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now," right now on local station: arrangement briefly intros Miles and then disappears, staying out of his way (thanks, Gil). Living breathing solo.
― dow, Monday, 20 March 2023 02:14 (one year ago) link
Or I should say the melodic statement is the solo, and vice versa. Wow.
― dow, Monday, 20 March 2023 02:16 (one year ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CtHljmUJxKM/
Jack DeJohnette’s Tribute to Miles Davis & MoreAUGUST 9, 2023 @ 7:30pm
Performers:Jack DeJohnetteWill CalhounVernon ReidDon ByronGeorge ColliganLuisito QuinteroMatt Garrison
Plus: Very Special Guests to be announced August 7, 2023.Who might they be? Well… there’s a reason we need a 1,500 seat theatre!
Ticket Link
You might want to grab your tickets before August 7th…Once we announce, those remaining seats will go Light Speed!!
Let’s Goooo!!! 🎉🙌🙏❤️
― birdistheword, Monday, 5 June 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
In terms of Miles's best known collaborators, I'm guessing maybe Dave Holland, who has some shows in NYC a week later. (He, DeJohnette and Jason Moran played an amazing show together last year in Woodstock.) Could even be Ron Carter - I don't think he has anything booked. Maybe Herbie Hancock? He's playing Newport on August 6 so he could definitely make it. John McLaughlin would be amazing - he's supposed to be retired, but I don't think a one-off performance would be out of the question.
― birdistheword, Monday, 5 June 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
Your comment reminded me about a question that entered my head yesterday: What kind of guitar was John McLaughlin using on IASW?
This thread claims it's a Duo-Sonic, citing compelling evidence from Robben Ford. There's also this picture of JM with Tony Williams:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dVPBBf9Ti6M/TRJIDo5T5PI/AAAAAAAAAIU/k7Yh8hr_2Vo/s1600/Lifetime+7.JPG
― budo jeru, Monday, 5 June 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
on the other hand:
You played an acoustic with Lifetime?!In the beginning, but it was tough because Tony's such a powerful drummer and Larry was pulling these weird sounds out of the organ. It was loud and sometimes would start to feedback, and it's hard to play when the guitar is freaking out. But, for example, [Davis'] In A Silent Way -- that's a Hummingbird, just a pure acoustic with a pickup.
In the beginning, but it was tough because Tony's such a powerful drummer and Larry was pulling these weird sounds out of the organ. It was loud and sometimes would start to feedback, and it's hard to play when the guitar is freaking out. But, for example, [Davis'] In A Silent Way -- that's a Hummingbird, just a pure acoustic with a pickup.
― budo jeru, Monday, 5 June 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
xxp turns out the special guests are Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman Santana.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:43 (ten months ago) link
“And more surprise guests will be joining Carlos, Cindy and Jack at the show. It’s going to be an amazing night at UPAC!”
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:45 (ten months ago) link
To this day I still check the official store hoping for a miracle restock of the On the Corner sessions box. Still haunts me that I missed the brief window they came up for sale again a few years ago.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:04 (ten months ago) link
I stupidly passed on them that time.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 8 September 2023 03:50 (nine months ago) link
I don't need the fancy box or anything, but man I would love a repress.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 September 2023 16:19 (nine months ago) link