From Lana Del Rey, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to the members of Radiohead and guitar legends Carlos Santana, Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia, the number of musicians ...

Sixty-five years ago this week, “Kind of Blue” was recorded and performed by a young group of talented musicians —before they were jazz legends — under the leadership of the visionary trumpeter Miles ...

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, came a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. One time when I was making my way to a museum, I saw a child outside who had decided he didn’t want to walk any further. The boy ...

Today, Nov. 13, Analogue Productions unveils Birth of the Blue, an early rarity from Miles Davis and the storied sextet behind Kind of Blue. In this first-ever standalone release, the dream team of ...

Finding his footing in the bebop world in the late 1940s and early 50s, Davis would go on to reinvent his sound many times-to the consternation of many of his followers and the delight of others. To ...

Miles Davis in 1956 [Tom Palumbo_CC BY-SA ] and, right, Jay Phelps in the play MILES [Colin J Smith] ...

Some of the most crucial tracks by the jazz great Miles Davis have been hiding in plain sight for decades—four numbers, from ...

"This painterly masterpiece would become one of the most important, influential and popular albums in jazz. But at the time it was made, 'Kind of Blue' was a revolution all its own, a radical break ...

Miles Davis probably never played Nintendo. It’s technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the first Nintendo Entertainment System was ...

Trumpeter Miles Davis was the quintessence of cool. A musical icon as well as a cultural one, Davis took his place in the pantheon by ceaselessly seeking and often ushering in the “next thing” in jazz ...