Tag: Miles Davis

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In New York, fashion was swept off the streets of Manhattan to the Spring Studios rooftop in TriBeCa and far-flung Connecticut lawns, while in London designers like Molly Goddard, Roksanda Ilinčić, and Victoria Beckham dived indoors to art galleries and Gasholders penthouses for appointment shows and virtual presentations, as Burberry and Erdem took to the English countryside to escape...

Miles Davis made his name as a bandleader in the first half of the 1950s, defining the genre of hard bop alongside regular players such as Horace Silver, Kenny Clarke, and Percy Heath, luminaries like J. J. Johnson and a young Sonny Rollins, and briefer and more contentious collaborators including Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk. Yet this was also...

Elvis Presley leers atop my list of the five best popular Christmas recordings. 'Blue Christmas', written in 1948 by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, is ostensibly a rejoinder to 'White Christmas', with its lines 'You'll be doing all right, with your Christmas of white / But I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas' - even though the Irving Berlin-penned...