Mira, Miles, Sticky Fingers

Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011

We cross the oceans and back again. Director Mira Nair talks about making movies between two worlds –- Calcutta and New York. An Austrian designer raves about his favorite album cover of all time. And back home we look at an American classic: Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue -- perhaps the most recognizable, and the best-selling, jazz record ever.

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