Jazz just keeps on getting older. May 26 marked what would have been the 100th birthday of innovative jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, responsible for Kind of Blue, widely regarded as one of the greatest ...

Capsule reviews of Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown's "A Supreme Blue," plus the latest Piranha Rama album, "Phony Frontier.

Before 1955, John Coltrane was a relative nobody on the scene, but after a chance audition with trumpeter Miles Davis, the saxophonist would surge into the later half of that decade as one of the ...

1926 was a booming year for jazz. Louis Armstrong was busy revolutionizing improvisation with his Hot Five band. Jelly Roll Morton was laying down essential tracks with his Red Hot Peppers. And, in a ...

(Newser) - In 1959, Miles Davis was looking to forge a path away from the bebop spearheaded by mentor Charlie Parker, Fred Kaplan writes on Slate. “Parker not only invented bebop, he perfected it,” ...

On the centennial of his birth, John Coltrane's family is trying to turn the home where the composer spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.

Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane will perform a concert in Ann Arbor to celebrate the 100th birthdays of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. The performance is part of a limited national tour and will ...