Cables is looking forward to the Miles Davis Celebration Festival. "I love playing at SMOKE. I really enjoy playing with Eddie (Henderson). We go back quite a ways. I also love the music that Miles ...

Miles Davis’ live work with his Second Great Quintet is the focus of the upcoming eighth volume in the late jazz legend’s Bootleg Series.

He made many contributions to the university, including establishing one of the first jazz studies programs in the U.S., adding a graduate curriculum in jazz and launching the annual Pitt Jazz Seminar ...

JJ 11/62: Miles Davis – At Carnegie Hall Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles thought that despite stodgy sounding chorded passages Davis and Evans were productive and provocative.

Four Lessons in Innovation from Jazz Great Miles Davis Miles Davis’s life contains lessons in innovation that any of us can use. The Complete Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Soundtrack ...

The latest in the historical concerts presented by Richard Pite’s Jazz Repertory Company, focuses on a jazz icon, Miles Davis, and his annus mirabilis, 1959. Peter Vacher fills in the background to ...

Miles Davis was one of the geniuses I couldn’t shut up about —mainly, the Miles Davis of the mid-sixties quintet, powered by the drummer Tony Williams and by his newest music, his (for me ...

Miles Davis: Miles Davis: Olympia – Mar 20, 1960 album review by C. Michael Bailey, published on January 14, 2015. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Miles Davis's seminal jazz album, ?Kind of Blue,' turns 50 today. Joining The Takeaway to talk about the impact of this album is WNYC's Evening Music Host Terrance McKnight.

Miles Davis' Great, Often Bizarre 1967 Quintet Kevin Whitehead says this Davis quintet was consistently amazing, not least on its last big tour.

After three years of playing together, Davis' "second great quintet" had evolved into a tight, athletic and adventurous crew. When the band toured Europe in 1967, it made some music for the ages ...

Davis was never one of jazz’s great virtuosos, but he was a masterful arranger and an unimpeachable judge of talent, so with the Miles Davis Quintet—Davis, pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul ...