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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

You know exactly where “3 Shades of Blue” is heading from the first page, even from the front cover. You foresee the point at which its three shades will blend and blur and, for an incandescent moment ...

Miles Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991), one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century, was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

For the 500th episode of the World of Jazz show some of my favourite musicians with a focus on Sam Rivers, a new album from Nate Wooley, and a selection of music from Miles Davis and John Coltrane. To ...

Starting in the mid-1960s, Cicely Tyson had a decades-long, on-again, off-again romance with trumpeter Miles Davis that peaked with their 1981 marriage and ended in a 1989 divorce. Behind the scenes ...

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.