WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (WABC) -- The man who made a new documentary about Miles Davis calls the late jazz trumpeter, "the coolest man who ever lived," and producer/director Stanley Nelson says ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Miles Davis’ music was a soundtrack to the black experience in America, even as he struggled with relationships, addiction, and health. “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” is a documentary that tells ...

*Prestige Records signed Miles Davis to a one-year deal in January 1951,, but the trumpeter would continue to record for the label into 1956. But Davis was still linked contractually to Prestige, who ...

Few musicians have brought as many new sounds and sights to the jazz world as Miles Davis. An intense, ambitious musician, he has managed to make a limited instrumental technique suggest infinite ...

The documentary delves into the six-decade career of the musical genius: from his days as a Juilliard student to the development of his signature sound on recordings with his famous quintet, from his ...

Like many music documentaries, this profile of groundbreaking trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis feels constrained by its conventional length, and devotes too little time to too many subjects.