Ep452: Managing the Miles Davis Legacy with Vince Wilburn Jr

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 Extended, Commercial-Free & High Resolution version of this podcast is available at: www.Patreon.com/VinylGuide Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/2Y6ORU0 Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/36qhlc8