“Music is always there, it comes before everything,” Miles Davis says early in director Stanley Nelson’s (The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution) documentary Miles Davis: Birth of ...

Miles Davis' newly reissued double LP "The Complete Birth of the Cool" is one of them. It's rich, rewarding, sophisticated music that lifts your spirits — might even make you smile. It's music ...

Stanley Nelson's superbly crafted documentary taps deep into the mystique of Miles Davis ... it’s all part of the same story: Davis’ need to cast music as a form of possession.

Able to create music that was both immediately accessible and defiantly challenging, Miles Davis is one of the most important artists in jazz and American music as a whole, even if at various ...

This time around, Miles took inspiration from classical Indian music, interpolating it into ... So Big Fun received generally weak reviews from writers who (once again) didn’t quite understand what ...

Until now, this music was tacked onto various reissues, most notably at the end of the six-disc or nine-LP set “The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis With John Coltrane,” which was ...

Audiophiles owe themselves a listen to Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics Series of new Miles Davis ... a core quartet — Davis, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke — in expanded sextet and ...

Miles Dewey Davis III, as his full name goes, was born in Alton (Illinois) in 1926. Endlessly versatile, the career of this ...

the complete session from Miles Davis' soundtrack recording to the 1958 Louis Malle film, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud has been out of print on CD for many years. Now Universal Music France has rectified ...

Film critic David Edelstein has this review. DAVID EDELSTEIN ... CHEADLE: (As Miles Davis) Go ahead. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) CHEADLE: (As Miles Davis) Frances loved Chopin. MCGREGOR: (As Dave ...

Miles Davis hated stasis. In the 30-year period between the time he first gained notice playing bebop with Charlie Parker to when he retired for five years in 1975, his music was usually in a ...