Ep452: Managing the Miles Davis Legacy with Vince Wilburn Jr
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Managing the estate of a legend like Miles Davis requires tremendous coordination, detail and creativity. Vince Wilburn Jr, musician, collaborator and nephew of Miles and co-manager of the Miles Davis Estate discusses the contents, complexities and strategies of managing the Miles Davis Legacy.
Topic Include:
- Uncle Miles – The Chief
- Reviewing offers / keeping quality high on Miles Davis legacy
- Good relationships of team and with former labels
- Are any tapes missing? How much unreleased material?
- Archiving films, stage clothing, instruments
- Miles Davis' record collection, getting records delivered
- Musicians he appreciated in the 80s
- Miles' thoughts on early hip hop
- Creating music on the fly, setting up recording sessions adhoc
- He went through many Sony Walkmans
- Where is Miles' record collection?
- Miles was very supportive of Vince playing music
- The story of "The Man With the Horn"
- Advice Miles gave Vince on being a musician
- Did Miles keep in touch with his Jazz contemporaries?
- Some rare Miles recordings found after his passing
- Recent RSD issues of new Miles recordings
- Ron Carter stories
- What is something people get wrong about Miles Davis?
- Did Miles give any guidance on his legacy?
- Zev Feldman, Kevin Donan connections
- Musicians would visit Miles – Prince would call frequently
- Does the album art exist?
- Upcoming Miles Davis legacy projects
- Memories of being young with Miles
- What's Vince's favourite Miles LP?
- UHQRs are the ultimate Kind of Blue pressings
- Test pressings and original acetates are part of the archive
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:21.2 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the vinyl guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:29.0 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:32.5 | Oh, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:34.6 | I hope you're well. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm now back in Sydney, Australia. Pretty happy, but |
| 0:41.4 | I'm quite exhausted still from the trip throughout Southern California. I spent about three |
| 0:47.2 | and a half weeks there. The No Values Festival is stunningly great. I'm sure you guys have |
| 0:52.1 | seen plenty of chatter on that online, as well as all the other shows and the record shops I spent time at. And I really just want to take a moment to thank everyone who came out and said hi. I really enjoyed hanging out with you guys and fellow record nerds from California and beyond. Some people came from different states, which was huge and |
| 1:11.9 | warm the cackles of my heart, if that's a thing. I really enjoyed seeing you all. And thanks again. |
| 1:18.8 | I hope we do it again soon. You know, maybe no values 2025. They're already talking about it. |
| 1:24.6 | It's going to be hard to top 2024, but hey, let's put it out |
| 1:28.6 | the universe. Maybe we'll do the same thing again next year. So far, I'm not totally done |
| 1:33.4 | unpacking. Got a ton of great records and goodies on the trip. I'm putting pictures of that |
| 1:38.6 | and memories up on the Instagram page at Vinyl Guide. Please jump up there if you want to get a |
| 1:43.3 | look, see at all the loot in the |
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