Night #1 of our celebration of the Miles Davis centennial focuses on the trumpet genius's final years and his landmark collaboration with hip-hop producer Easy Mo Bee that resulted in Davis's final ...

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.

Overture; The Doo-Bop Song; Chocolate Chip; Chocolate Chip (reprise); Rappin' Is Fun-damental; Vanilla Brownie; Duke's Beauty; Sonya (and Jane and Loretta and Alice); On the Next Corner; Blow; My ...

Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

The NEC Jazz Orchestra celebrates one of the great jazz trumpeters and bandleaders of all time with Miles Ahead: Miles Davis at 100 on Thursday, April 16 at NEC's Jordan Hall. The concert, conducted ...

At a moment when jazz still loomed large in American culture, 1959 was an unusually monumental year. Those 12 months saw the release of four great and genre-altering albums: Charles Mingus’s Mingus Ah ...

One of the most innovative musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis contributed to the art of jazz in myriad ways. His classic 1959 album, A Kind of Blue, is the best-selling jazz record of all time ...

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 ...