Thirty years after his death, the music of Miles Davis is going strong. Davis defined the sound — and sounds — of modern jazz like no other in the way he integrated the electrical instrumentation of ...

It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue to ascend to a throne it has yet to vacate in all of the decades that have followed. With its scepter, came a ...

From Lana Del Rey, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to the members of Radiohead and guitar legends Carlos Santana, Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia, the number of musicians ...

Today, Nov. 13, Analogue Productions unveils Birth of the Blue, an early rarity from Miles Davis and the storied sextet behind Kind of Blue. In this first-ever standalone release, the dream team of ...

Christian McBride shares the incredible story of how his friend Joey DeFrancesco landed the opportunity to perform with ...

In 1985, I couldn’t escape trumpeter Miles Davis. It seemed like he was everywhere. Raspy-voiced, hidden behind sunglasses, chewing gum, always intimidating. That fall, I watched him in an episode of ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on September 29, 1991. This story was written by Hugh Wyatt and Dick Sheridan.) Legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis died yesterday in a Santa Monica, Cali., ...

In 1954, Miles Davis's future meant considerably more than his past. Recording for Prestige since 1951 (The New Sounds was his first album for the label), the trumpeter came into his own in 1954.

Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s new film about Miles Davis, takes place in 1979, toward the end of his silent years that began in 1975 after a perfect internal storm of burnout, creative block, and various ...

But the truth is that, while we only get to see 28 minutes of Davis in 1973—with a psychedelic-hazed group that also included the do-rag-headed saxophonist Dave Liebman, guitarists Reggie Lucas and ...

Thirty years after his death, the music of Miles Davis is going strong. Davis defined the sound – and sounds – of modern jazz like no other in the way he integrated the electrical instrumentation of ...