25 years after his departure, his audacity to be one of jazz's strongest voices resonates beyond the music.

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Black Music Month originated in 1979. Jimmy Carter proclaimed the month of June as Black Music Month to celebrate the wonderful music, the  achievements, births, important timelines, events and to remember those we lost.

After their great chemistry on the first installment of his ‘Black Radio’ series, Robert Glasper links up with Erykah Badu once again. Glasper is recreating music by the late great Miles Davis for an upcoming tribute album called Everything’s Beautiful. According to an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the album will feature re-created songs with […]

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The singer is gracing us yet again with a new feature on Robert Glasper's remake of the Miles Davis' classic "Maiysha."

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Because who else is going to have a freestyle about Kobe's retirement this soon other than Fabolous?

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In the new trailer for Miles Ahead, we see Don fully embrace the smooth talking, legendary jazz player.

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*The movie has yet to secure distribution in North America, but Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic, “Miles Ahead,” will make its world premiere in New York this fall — as the closing night film at the New York Film Festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the selection Wednesday, according to The AP. The […]

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The Hollywood Reporter announces that Notorious director George Tillman Jr. is developing a feature film about jazz great Miles Davis. The project will compete with Oscar-nominee Don Cheadle’s own plans to make a Davis biopic, which the actor has been trying for years to get off the ground. Both projects have the blessing of one […]

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Don Cheadle is definitely busy now-a-days. Cheadle’s doing promotion for The Guard, released in theaters July 29, and upcoming films The Avengers and Iron Man 3, due out next year. He’s also filming a lead role in the new Showtime comedy House of Lies. Through all the projects, Cheadle is still fighting to get the […]

Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare) Lincoln High School East St. Louis, IL 62201 When: 1939 What: Miles Davis picked up the trumpet at his father’s behest after the family moved from Alton, IL to East St. Louis, IL when he was about a year old. «  PREVIOUS NEXT  » In celebration of Black Music […]

Where: (click below to visit venue on Foursquare)CBS 30th Street Studio 270 E 30th Street, New York, NY 10001 When: April 1970 What: Miles Davis’ first certified gold record sold more than half a million copies, later being recognized as one of jazz’s greatest albums and a progenitor of the jazz rock genre. «  PREVIOUS NEXT  » […]

jive (origin unknown) – 1. the jargon of jazz musicians or enthusiasts. 2. deceptive, nonsensical or glib talk. 3. to play or dance to jive music.