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.

Craft Recordings celebrates a pivotal year for Miles Davis with Miles ’54: The Prestige Recordings—a new, 20-track compilation, collecting genre-defining recordings from the music icon’s 1954 output, ...

Miles Davis would have been a cool 100 years old were he alive today. Davis, who died in 1991, broke through with 1957's "The Birth of the Cool" and cool was something the trumpeter embodied. Born on ...

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 ...

While jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was cutting his first LPs with Columbia Records in the mid-1950s, rock and roll icons of the 1970s, like Steve Miller and Neil Young, were still in high school. By the ...

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Reservoir Media has acquired a majority interest in the Miles Davis publishing catalog, as well as as well as other rights associated with the late jazz icon’s estate, including a partnership in name ...

Jeff Cornell is a veteran music and entertainment writer, who has contributed to Variety, Billboard, Loudwire, The Hollywood Reporter, and MTV. Miles Davis is one of the greatest and most influential ...

Fast cars, huge shades and, surprisingly, any old trumpet: These are the things that made Miles Miles. Credit...Clockwise from top left, Hulton Archive/Getty Images; David Redfern/Redferns; Mark ...

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