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Magus: Highway 375
by Michael Askounes
Highway 375 is a 20 minute musical journey from the mind and body of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Robinson – and what an incredibly journey it is! Robinson’s brand of futuristic space rock combines Porcupine Tree-style guitar riffs with his own digital synth soundscapes to excellent effect, creating music that is totally engaging and completely relaxing at the same time. The additional fact that Magus manages to make more effective use out of less than 20 minutes than most space-rock bands can ...
read moreDark Magus, by Gregory Davis, to be basis for feature film on his father
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Michael Ricci
MONTCLAIR, NJ: Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis, Gregory Davis's no-holds-barred look at his father's life, published by Backbeat Books in 2006, will be the basis of feature film being developed by George Tillman, Jr., director of Notorious. Gregory Davis will serve as a consultant on the film, which will be called Miles Davis." In Dark Magus, the younger Davis takes a warts-and-all look at the real Miles Davis, stripping away the public perception of his ...
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Miles Davis' Son Reveals All in New Book, "Dark Magus"
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All About Jazz
Scheduled for publication in November, 2006 San Francisco-Dark Magus is a warts-and-all look at the real Miles Davis. As told by his son, this book strips away the public perception of Davis-often based on books written without such intimate access to the man-and gets down to the realities of his personality, his relationships, and his many quirks. Dark Magus details this enigmatic superstar's Jekyll-and-Hyde behavior: his swings between sobriety and prodigious drug use; his tender family moments and his destructive ...
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