One of the most innovative musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis contributed to the art of jazz in myriad ways. His classic 1959 album, A Kind of Blue, is the best-selling jazz record of all time ...

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 ...

James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue is an intimate biographic work that takes you through a fly-on-the-wall journey on the careers of three of the greatest jazz musicians of all time: Miles Davis, John ...

American jazz musician Miles Davis, center, escorts friends to funeral of rock-guitarist Jimi Hendrix in Seattle, Wa., Oct. 1, 1970. Davis is one of many musicians gathered to pay tribute to Hendrix, ...

Miles Dewey Davis III’s first memory was a blue-hot flame on the family stove. “I felt fear, real fear,” he recalled in his 1989 autobiography. He was also exhilarated. That blue, he said, presented ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ahead of the centenary of Davis’s birth, musicians including Terence Blanchard and John Scofield analyse his brilliance: from his soft phrasing and spiritual feel to his raspy cussing and leather ...

In celebration of one of the most revolutionary artists in jazz history, the Eisemann Center for Performing Arts will welcome ...