The twelve tracks collected on 2nd Session 1956 Revisited are, nonetheless, arguably the most perfect Miles ... Columbia, Davis fulfilled his remaining contractual obligations to Prestige by ...

Whatever your point of view about this, there is no argument that Coleman is the forgotten saxophone colossus in Davis' story, overshadowed by Coltrane (and on occasions by Sonny Rollins) in the first ...

Guitarist George Benson joined the Miles Davis Quintet for the 1967 album Miles in the Sky. Davis also was drawn to the music of James Brown and Sly Stone, and he began to use driving funk rhythms ...

Throughout his long career legendary trumpeter Miles Davis, never content to keep to the old script, has always been ready to explore new ideas. Critics and fans have not always been happy to go ...

In the mid-1960s, as Miles Davis’s band rose to its place in the pantheon of jazz greats, the trumpeter boasted that he paid his musicians not to practice. The statement was typically ...

The "Second Quintet" - the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s - was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis- ...

Until now, this short-lived version of the Miles Davis Quintet has been a phantom; it never made a studio recording. After Bitches Brew came out in January 1970, Davis expanded his band and became ...

"Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2," featuring the Miles Davis Quintet in 1969, is the second release in a series of previously unsanctioned music. new release miles davis Toward the ...

If the sun rose this morning, then it must be time for a record label to take another run at repurposing the Miles Davis ... 1967 concerts by Davis’ vaunted ‘Second Great Quintet’: Wayne ...

The fifth three-CD set in Columbia’s Bootleg Series celebrates the 50th anniversary of the studio album Miles Smiles, recorded while the trumpeter’s second great quintet was at a creative peak.

Kind of Blue isn’t close to the best music Miles Davis ever made. Nor is it the best music from this period. Milestones from the previous year, waxed by the first great quintet with the addition ...

Until now, this short-lived version of the Miles Davis Quintet has been a phantom; it never made a studio recording. After Bitches Brew came out in January 1970, Davis expanded his band and became ...