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

A former Oakley church converted into a 7,500-square foot private residence with a bar and sauna recently hit the market for just under $1M ...

The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.

Craft Recordings’ Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings picks up where Miles ’54 left off, spotlighting sessions from the year Miles Davis found his footing as a bandleader. As Ashley Kahn notes, the ...

It can even be argued that jazzstopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward. Davis was the son of a dental surgeon, Dr. Miles DeweyDavis, Jr., and a music teacher, Cleota Mae (Henry) ...

In this excerpt from the new book 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (Penguin Press, March 5, 2024), author James Kaplan puts us in the room as ...

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 ...

His First Ride Was a Horse. Growing up, Miles Davis spent summers in Noble Lake, Arkansas, where his grandfather gave him his own horse at age seven. Horseback riding, like trumpet improvisation ...

Frank Sinatra biographer James Kaplan has set his sights on three jazz giants — Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans — as their lives and their art lead up to the recording of “Kind of ...

Miles Davis’ “Miles in France, 1963 & 1964: Miles Davis Quintet, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8.” (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune) Miles Davis, ‘Miles in France, 1963 & 1964 ...

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