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 ...

It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue to ascend to a throne it has yet to vacate in all of the decades that have followed. With its scepter, came a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, jazz was 'hot.' Then it became 'cool.' That pivotal moment — and the guy who launched it — are honored in William Paterson series ...

An icon, an iconoclast: Both terms apply equally to Miles Davis, who was born a century ago, on May 26, 1926. If that sounds like a paradox, it's just one among many in the life and career of this ...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (First Alert 4) - A visionary. A trailblazer. Miles Davis — often called the father of cool jazz — was an artist who bent sound, broke rules, and helped write America’s story in ...

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, ...

Artist and jazz trumpeter Dave Chisholm has created a series of graphic novels that combine his two loves. The most recent was Enter the Blue (Z2 Comics, 2022), a supernatural jazz story incorporating ...

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 ...

No question, Miles Davis is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. For over decades, from his birthing of “cool” jazz through his groundbreaking works with Gil Evans, to his ’60s quintet, to ...