Some of the most crucial tracks by the jazz great Miles Davis have been hiding in plain sight for decades—four numbers, from a May 1958 session, set down by the sextet that the following year ...

In the first 20 minutes of the terrific new documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” we see the jazz legend grow up in St. Louis, move to New York, enroll at Juilliard, join Charlie ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more ... I’m thinking: my God, Miles Davis! “I said, ‘Miles, we’re leaving on tour tomorrow. And really, why me? You could have ...

The eighth volume of Sony Legacy’s Bootleg series, a six-CD box set, traces the formation of Miles Davis’s second ... were all then new to both Davis’s music and life on the road, but ...

Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane in a New York studio in 1959. (Don Hunstein/Sony Music Entertainment) Review by Zack Ruskin With Miles Davis, words were never the focus.

and authenticity to commit to telling a story really focusing on the music itself. Your narration is strictly drawn from primary Miles Davis sources. Was there any interpretation on your part ...

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 ...