Ford on two moments when Joni Mitchell was right and he was wrong, why his late 80s stint with Davis didn't work out and his go-to Dumble alternative ...

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 ...

In the cold open of the new HBO documentary Listening to Kenny G, director Penny Lane explains that she set out to learn why the lite-jazz/adult-contemporary saxophonist is so polarizing, and why his ...

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, one of the most important figurative painters today, selects an exhibition of works critical to her way of seeing and thinking, inviting audiences on a personal journey through ...

Miles Davis is known as one of the twentieth-century’s most influential musicians and a key figure in shaping modern day jazz. However, many Miles Davis fans and admirers would be surprised to know ...

At the time of this set’s performances, Miles Davis was one of the most pivotal figures in jazz music, and he had long seen France as being important to his career. From a 1949 festival appearance ...

Eventually the steam roller that is the Miles Davis Bootleg Series was going to trundle into the trumpeter's 1980s comeback era. The preceding six volumes in this series have all been uniformly ...

Legendary musician, Miles Davis, would often exhaust the songs he played. He never performed the same piece the same way twice. It’s why he would change time signatures, song lengths and even keys ...

Jack Johnson, released on Feb. 24, 1971, might be the closest Miles Davis ever came to putting out a rock album. But to leave it there is to understate the magnificent accomplishment and importance of ...

Miles was more like my good friend. He made sure I was eating, he took care of me, gave me money without asking when we were scuffling along. He was really special. He would ask me, ‘Are you reading?’ ...

When Miles Davis had a minor stroke in 1982, he suffered from a frozen hand. Advised by his doctor to hold a pencil to aid recovery, he soon he began sketching. So began a passion that would last the ...