Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane will perform a centennial celebration of jazz legends Miles Davis and John Coltrane in ...

A visionary. A trailblazer. Miles Davis — often called the father of cool jazz — was an artist who bent sound, broke rules, ...

Ahead of the centenary of Davis’s birth, musicians including Terence Blanchard and John Scofield analyse his brilliance: from his soft phrasing and spiritual feel to his raspy cussing and leather outf ...

There will be celebrations of the man’s music around the world this year, including the promising “Unlimited Miles” ...

Miles Davis, born in Illinois, created and worked on some of the most celebrated, influential and eclectic jazz music the ...

In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Public Domain It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for ...

Another live Miles Davis recording. Well, once the studio outtakes have dried up, this is the only seam left to mine. Happily, with advances in sound technology, old radio broadcasts are increasingly ...

A small-statured man in a fine suit, hunched over and silhouetted against a smoky backdrop — trumpet to his mouth about to play a softly muted note that no one expected but perfectly fits the moment.

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 Davis veered off the road in New York City while driving a model that had also attracted celebs like Eddie Van Halen, ...