CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will present “Legends of Jazz,” a musical retrospective celebrating the works of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, on Friday, Nov. 13, at the Maltz ...

From Donald Byrd and Eddie Harris to Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, the OGs of Jazz Funk Laid Down A Blueprint for Jam Jazz ...

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 ...

Everybody said he could play, the Trumpet his tool, on stage he’d displayHe was non- conformist, unapologetic, he made Jazz do what they do and say;Miles the Chaos, Miles the cool,He saw opportunity, ...

LOS ANGELES, March 31 (Reuters) - Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer-songwriter Laufey says her mission is simple: get young people to fall in love with jazz. "It's literally all I care about as an artist ...

The Hollywood Bowl began as a picnic ground called Daisy Dell, a canyon chosen for its acoustics, willed into being largely by women, chief among them Artie Mason Carter, a music teacher who believed ...

In 1954, Miles Davis's future meant considerably more than his past. Recording for Prestige since 1951 (The New Sounds was his first album for the label), the trumpeter came into his own in 1954.

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, ...

Nas is stepping into the role of literary curator by penning a foreword for Simon & Schuster’s centennial edition of Miles Davis’s autobiography, recognizing how the jazz legend’s journey mirrors ...

Miles Davis, whose centennial arrives on May 26, did more than leave a mark on jazz. He made reinvention a discipline. In an art form where many great musicians found a signature style and spent ...

I always find it a bit difficult when I try to write about Laura Nyro's music.Is she a singer-songwriter?Is she a soul singer?Is she a pop musician?Or is she a composer influenced by jazz?None of ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 “Kind of Blue” is widely considered the best jazz album of all time: 65 years later, one can’t help but wonder if that’s only because it’s the least ...