NEA Jazz Masters are returning to Flushing Town Hall with a Miles Davis tribute for jazz lovers to ring in the start of ...

Last week, the Montreux Jazz Festival Miami celebrated the Miles Davis Centennial, a milestone tribute honoring one of the ...

The Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet will honor Miles Davis and John Coltrane in a special centennial tribute performance at The Carver on March 6.

Considered the most influential small jazz group of the middle 1960s, the Miles Davis 'Second Great Quintet' has often been imitated but never equaled. Considered the most influential small jazz group ...

TAMPA, FL — On Sunday, September 28th, Colors of Jazz on WMNF 88.5 FM will pay tribute to one of the most iconic figures in American music history: Miles Davis. Marking the 34th anniversary of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Public Domain It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for ...

A small-statured man in a fine suit, hunched over and silhouetted against a smoky backdrop — trumpet to his mouth about to play a softly muted note that no one expected but perfectly fits the moment.

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 ...

Thirty years after his death, the music of Miles Davis is going strong. Davis defined the sound — and sounds — of modern jazz like no other in the way he integrated the electrical instrumentation of ...

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 ...