When the Miles Davis Quintet headed to Europe in spring 1960, John Coltrane had already ... the trumpeter into jazz’s leading man and crowned Coltrane as the tenor saxophonist to watch.

In the spring of 1960, John ... Coltrane's bracingly insistent approach earned him some audience catcalls later in that six-minute solo. But the contrast between his shouts and Miles' whispers ...

The Renaissance, taking man as the measure of all things ... The title of Both Directions at Once alludes to a remark Coltrane made to his successor in Miles Davis’s group, the tenor saxophonist ...

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 ...

For decades, passing 3rd and Wells has conjured, for me, the sound of the classic Miles Davis Quintet ... out that while the legendary tenor man John Coltrane never played in Milwaukee ...

His book is structured around a collective biography of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans, who in 1959 recorded “Kind of Blue,” which defied expectations to become the most popular ...

“We took it to rehearsal and, just like that, fell right into it,” Coltrane said in a 1961 interview. Coltrane on sax with Miles Davis ... And it made John Coltrane a star.

In addition to bandleader Miles Davis (trumpet), the septet who recorded the album included John Coltrane (tenor sax), Bill Evans (piano), Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (alto sax), Paul ...

Although initially, it was far from clear that this would be the case. Miles came to New York from Alton, Illinois aged 19, studied at Juilliard, ran his mouth at every opportunity and then ...