Great Lives - Miles Davis

GREAT LIVES: SERIES 45 - 3. ADRIAN UTLEY OF PORTISHEAD ON MILES DAVIS (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 17th April 2018

Miles Davis - trumpeter, composer, bandleader - is championed by Adrian Utley of Portishead.

"He's always been really important in my life, right from early on when my dad used to play him. It was part of the atmosphere of our house."

From the early years with Charlie Parker and on via Kind of Blue to playing in front of 600,000 hippies on the Isle of Wight, Miles Davis was a musician who never stood still. "Always listen for what you can leave out," he used to say, and Portishead's seminal nineties album Dummy seems to have taken advice from the man. According to Adrian Utley, "The darkness and the sense of space is the thing that I have assimilated from Miles ... he's in my DNA."

With Richard Williams, author of The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music.

Presenter: Matthew Parris

Producer: Miles Warde

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

Soul Music: Series 7 - 2. So What

SOUL MUSIC: SERIES 7 - 2. SO WHAT (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd April 2016

Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional appeal.

Telling the stories of some of the people whose lives have been affected by So What, the opening track on Miles Davis' seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Miles Plugs In - 2. Episode 2

MILES PLUGS IN - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st September 2016

Craig Charles explores Miles Davis' controversial electric period from 1969-1975.

Including contributions from Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, John McLaughlin, Michael Henderson, Paul Buckmaster, Airto Moreira, Jack De Johnette and Julian Cope.

Miles Davis - Summertime [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - Dark Magnus [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - Stuff [CBS]
Miles Davis - Mademoiselle Mabry [Columbia]
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Dark Magnus [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - Calypso Frelimo [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Maiysha Agharta [CBS]
Miles Davis - Gondwana [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down [CBS]
Miles Davis - Spanish Key [CBS]
Miles Davis - Call It Anything (Part 1) [Vinyl Passion]
Miles Davis - Right Off [Columbia]
Miles Davis - On The Corner [Columbia]
Miles Davis - One And One [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Black Satin [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Shhh Peaceful [Columbia/Legacy]
Miles Davis - Vote For Miles [Columbia]

Miles Plugs In - 1. Episode 1

MILES PLUGS IN - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 20th September 2016

Craig Charles explores Miles Davis' controversial electric period from 1969-1975.

Including contributions from Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, John McLaughlin, Michael Henderson, Paul Buckmaster, Airto Moreira, Jack De Johnette and Julian Cope.

Miles Davis - Summertime [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - Dark Magnus [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - Stuff [CBS]
Miles Davis - Mademoiselle Mabry [Columbia]
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Dark Magnus [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - Calypso Frelimo [Sony Jazz]
Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Maiysha Agharta [CBS]
Miles Davis - Gondwana [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down [CBS]
Miles Davis - Spanish Key [CBS]
Miles Davis - Call It Anything (Part 1) [Vinyl Passion]
Miles Davis - Right Off [Columbia]
Miles Davis - On The Corner [Columbia]
Miles Davis - One And One [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Black Satin [Columbia]
Miles Davis - Shhh Peaceful [Columbia/Legacy]
Miles Davis - Vote For Miles [Columbia]