In the lineage of jazz, Miles Davis, born 100 years ago, presents something of a paradox: He looms as large as anyone, but he ...
There are many things about Miles Davis to remember as we mark 100 years since his birth. There’s the 1950s and 60s elegance ...
Even among the greatest jazz albums, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue stands apart. It is the one jazz album everyone has heard of, ...
Throughout his long and varied career, Davis (1926-1991) both celebrated and shook up jazz, the notes from his trumpet weaving in and out styles, sounds, and decades of live and r ...
The magic of the jazz idol, 100 years since his birth and 35 years after his death, still lingers, as do the contradictions.
It's Miles Davis' centennial, and fellow musicians discuss how the shapeshifting innovator transformed music over and over ...
Miles Davis, who died in 1991, would have been 100 years old. His estate has generated a special centennial celebration for ...
To bring the music of Miles Davis to life, Music in Place is producing a May 30 concert at Sonoma’s Sebastiani Theatre.
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Miles Davis emerged from Middle America to become the 'Picasso of jazz' and taught us all how to be cool
Miles Dewey Davis III’s first memory was a blue-hot flame on the family stove. “I felt fear, real fear,” he recalled in his ...
Recorded in two marathon 1956 sessions, Miles Davis’ Prestige albums captured his comeback, the rise of a great quintet and a ...
The dramatic story behind what is widely considered to be the most important jazz recording in the history of "The Hall".
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