Miles Davis is known as one of the twentieth-century’s most influential musicians and a key figure in shaping modern day jazz. However, many Miles Davis fans and admirers would be surprised to know ...

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 ...

In the cold open of the new HBO documentary Listening to Kenny G, director Penny Lane explains that she set out to learn why the lite-jazz/adult-contemporary saxophonist is so polarizing, and why his ...

Featuring Miles Davis alumni and next-generation innovators, this all-star ensemble is led by Emmy and Grammy Award-winning ...

Legendary musician, Miles Davis, would often exhaust the songs he played. He never performed the same piece the same way twice. It’s why he would change time signatures, song lengths and even keys ...

From the time he burst onto the scene in the mid-1940s to the day he died, Miles Davis was as divisive as he was lauded, as unpredictable as he was pioneering, and as proud as he was troubled. The ...

Navigate the trumpeter’s snaky, endless grooves with picks from Flying Lotus, Cindy Blackman Santana and Terence Blanchard, among other musicians, writers and critics. By Giovanni Russonello For the ...

Miles was more like my good friend. He made sure I was eating, he took care of me, gave me money without asking when we were scuffling along. He was really special. He would ask me, ‘Are you reading?’ ...

Miles Davis was one of the greatest musicians to ever live and he knew it. “I’ve changed music five or six times,” he once recounted. Davis was not arrogant; he was humble. To study the structure of ...

Some of the most crucial tracks by the jazz great Miles Davis have been hiding in plain sight for decades—four numbers, from a May 1958 session, set down by the sextet that the following year would ...

The members of Toto have played on hit records for many other artists over the years - including the biggest selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller. But in 1985 the roles were reversed ...