The first feature is Miles Davis- The Cool Jazz Sound, Rerelased in 2004 DVD. This 25-minute DVD, rescued from an old television program, is one of the best and most essential jazz videos. The last ...

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans And The Lost Empire Of Cool James Kaplan496 Pages ISBN: #9780525561002 Penguin Random House 2024 James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue is an intimate ...

Synonymous with cool and a signature muted trumpet sound, Miles Davis is one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time — but, he was so much more than that. On the 96th anniversary of his birth ...

“I’d gotten to know Miles by then, and I’d go by his house a lot in those days. He would call up and say, ‘Come by the house, ...

Miles Davis’ 1970 album Bitches Brew marked a considerable departure from the “cool jazz” sound he helped to define with his landmark 1959 LP Kind Of Blue.Davis was always one to push boundaries, and ...

Miles took part in almost every era of jazz including bebop, hard bop, cool jazz and fusion. As usual, the Collective will put their own twist on Miles' music. That means high energy, excitement ...

James Kaplan's ‘3 Shades of Blue’ shows how Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans made the biggest jazz album ever, ... and worrying too much about itself to be cool, “jazz died in 1959. ...

ST. LOUIS -- Jazz great Miles Davis was born in Alton, Ill., and grew up in East St. Louis, Ill. He left the St. Louis area at 18 to become one of jazz's premiere innovators, a trumpet player ...

The best-selling and arguably the best-loved jazz album ever, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue still has the power to awe.

André 3000 talks flutes before his ACL Live show in Austin; plus cool jazz shows this week. ... Saturday: Jeff Lofton’s 1950’s Miles Davis tribute tames the heat with cool jazz.

Ahmad Jamal, the pianist and band leader who helped pioneer the influential style that would come to be called cool jazz, died Sunday of prostate cancer at his home in Ashley Falls, Mass. He was 92.