ST. LOUIS -- Jazz great Miles Davis was born in Alton, Ill., and grew up in East St. Louis, Ill. He left the St. Louis area at 18 to become one of jazz's premiere innovators, a trumpet player, ...

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (WABC) -- The man who made a new documentary about Miles Davis calls the late jazz trumpeter, "the coolest man who ever lived," and producer/director Stanley Nelson says ...

A few years ago, an electronics company claimed in its ads that its products were “slightly ahead of our time.” That’s a perfect description of the way the music now known as Miles Davis’s “The Birth ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank Wess, Warren Vach, Jerry Dodgion, Mary Stallings & Others! New York, NY (February 15, 2007) Jazz at Lincoln Center is proud to present the incomparable Bill Charlap Trio joined by some very ...

Like many music documentaries, this profile of groundbreaking trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis feels constrained by its conventional length, and devotes too little time to too many subjects.