Miles Davis is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of jazz music. Over the course of his career, he had a significant impact on jazz piano, jazz composition, and jazz ...

From Miles Davis to Mahavishnu Orchestra, we run through the 15 greatest albums fusing jazz and rock into arresting new ...

American Jazz musician Jack DeJohnette plays drums as he performs onstage, with the DeJohnette-Coltrane-Garrison Trio, during a Blue Note Jazz Festival concert at Central Park SummerStage, New York, ...

Another live Miles Davis recording. Well, once the studio outtakes have dried up, this is the only seam left to mine. Happily, with advances in sound technology, old radio broadcasts are increasingly ...

A small-statured man in a fine suit, hunched over and silhouetted against a smoky backdrop — trumpet to his mouth about to play a softly muted note that no one expected but perfectly fits the moment.

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 ...

Miles Davis may embody jazz, but to limit him to jazz would be overlooking more than two decades of musical evolution. Apparently someone has acknowledged his impact beyond jazz, because Davis will be ...

Thirty years after his death, the music of Miles Davis is going strong. Davis defined the sound — and sounds — of modern jazz like no other in the way he integrated the electrical instrumentation of ...

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NEW YORK -- Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and a vast array of other jazz greats, has died ...