Miles Davis

How do we understand Blue in the 21st century? Can we think of Mitchell's 1971 album, long considered the apex of confessional songwriting, as a paradigm not of raw emotion, but of care and craft?

Join us for the premiere of electric bassist (and Miles Davis collaborator) Marcus Miller's retrospective concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis going electric!

Miles Davis will forever be etched in history for the way he continually evolved musically. He effortlessly transformed with the times, moving from bebop…

Miles Davis led such a prismatic and changeable career that any attempt at summation is destined to feel incomplete.But the 2019 documentary Miles Davis:…

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Electric Miles. Few word pairings in the jazz lexicon are apt to inspire so much contention and challenge and ferment.What the phrase refers to, of…

No one needs to be reminded that 1959 was an exceptionally good year for jazz. Among other things, it gave us some of the most celebrated jazz albums ever…

We know it can be hard to shop for the jazz fan in your life. Especially in this day and age — when so much of our music arrives in digital form, or…

George Shearing became identified, even in the headlines of some of his 2011 obituaries, as the composer of “Lullaby of Birdland.”Like many a trademark…

John Coltrane’s momentous affiliation with Miles Davis was drawing to a close in March of 1960, when he agreed (with some reluctance) to embark on a…