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 ...

Bobby Troup hosted this excellent television show that featured the best in contemporary jazz; this episode collects a stunning array of jazz heavyweights together on one stage. The performance was ...

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 ...

TAMPA, FL — On Sunday, September 28th, Colors of Jazz on WMNF 88.5 FM will pay tribute to one of the most iconic figures in American music history: Miles Davis. Marking the 34th anniversary of his ...

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, who brought subtlety and swing to Miles Davis’ epochal “Kind of Blue” and many other classic albums, ...

James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue is an intimate biographic work that takes you through a fly-on-the-wall journey on the careers of three of the greatest jazz musicians of all time: Miles Davis, John ...

*LOS ANGELES – Author and entertainment executive Michael Stradford pens “MilesStyle: The Fashion Of Miles Davis,” the first book on the style of legendary jazz musician, Miles Davis, often called ...

There’s some historically important and fabulous jazz available again this month on vinyl and CD, and it might be a surprise ...

A great decade in American jazz history occurred between the years 1949 and 1959. It was then that the late Miles Davis latched on to the musical standards of the day and slowed them down, adding ...

Yale Jazz Ensembles Big Band Season Opener to Celebrate Miles Davis's Centennial - "Birth of the Cool" The Yale Jazz Ensembles Big Band, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director, will celebrate the centennial ...

Few musicians have brought as many new sounds and sights to the jazz world as Miles Davis. An intense, ambitious musician, he has managed to make a limited instrumental technique suggest infinite ...