For more than five years in the late 1970s, Miles Davis disappeared from public view, retreating into a drug-fed haze and unwilling or unable to perform, record or compose the ...

Fortunately, the latest Davis documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” — premiering in L.A. Friday at the Landmark Theater and various Laemmle theaters Sep.6– offers more than a simple ...

In contrast, the Electric Band, which drew from Miles’ late ’60s/early ’70s Bitches Brew period, had the most latitude. With its fusion of jazz, funk, rock and avant garde sounds, the impact ...

Miles Davis, a revolutionary trumpeter and jazz visionary who changed the course of the music several times over, died Saturday of pneumonia and a stroke in Santa Monica, Calif. Mr. Davis, 65, had … ...

Radio & Podcasts '70s Jazz Rock Fusion, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis and Tony Williams Lifetime by Len Davis November 3, 2023 A nostalgic trip to the '70s with music from Miles Davis, Weather ...

OK, you first bought Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” in its original incarnation as an LP. Then, since you wanted to listen in your car, you picked up the cassette version. And, of course, when ...

Back in the early ’70s, when Miles Davis was releasing the albums “At Fillmore,” “Live/Evil” and “In Concert,” a lot of his fans thought he had lost his way, if not his mind.

Miles Davis’ sumptuous, all-instrumental reinvention of George Gershwin’s classic 1939 jazz opera, “Porgy and Bess,” is a ...

NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL Rhode Island is world famous for its Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, which have found a home at Fort ...

When Miles Davis’ nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. saw the newest documentary exploring the life of the late trumpeter, his eyes swelled with tears. According to the drummer, who worked alongside Davis ...