Miles Davis learned the trumpet at school and by the 1940s he was wowing crowds with big jazz names like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Miles Davis learned the trumpet at school and by the 1940s ...

This week, a mix to mirror book one of the 1983 Miles Davis biography by Jack Chambers that I'm reading. Two full hours, celebrating the music of Miles and his collaborators pre-1960.

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Back in the 1980s, Spin magazine asked Quincy Troupe who he’d like to write about and the poet and journalist didn’t hesitate to answer. “I said I’d like to write about Miles Davis,” Troupe, 83, says ...

This documentary on jazz icon Miles Davis opens with black and white footage of the trumpet player throwing punches in a boxing ring. A lifelong enthusiast of “the sweet science,” it also pops up ...

Ian Carr, a Scottish-born trumpeter who, like his formidable influence, Miles Davis, was an early practitioner of jazz-rock fusion and later repaid his artistic debt by writing Davis’s biography, died ...

Yes, Virginia, the world does need another Miles Davis biography. Like the elephant in the Hindu fable, Davis is a looming figure only partially grasped by observers. This is because most people are ...

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.