Miles Davis

...of the Jazz Messengers and went on to lead a variety of hard-bop units and cut over two dozen albums. Collaborations include Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Duke Jordan, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly, Freddie Hubbard, and Rudy Van Gelder. Mobley passed...

In this article: Hank Mobley, Roll Call, Lee Morgan, Heroin, Freddie Hubbard, and Rudy Van Gelder

...in the mid-'40s: "He always said he learned more from Dizzy Gillespie at night than he did from his professors in the daytime." While Davis might have turned his back on the formal study of music, his work will occupy jazz musicologists for...

In this article: Jack Chambers, Paris, Milestones, Kind of Blue, Juilliard, Sony, and John Coltrane

...record or a tear-soaked Pogues-athon. Not so. Much of the 12-track all-instrumental release evokes the bravura melancholy of Miles Davis and Gil Evans's Sketches of Spain, Tortoise's more languorous post-rock reveries (marimba figures...

In this article: Trademark, Sketches of Spain, Gil Evans, Ennio Morricone, Teo Macero, and Lee "Scratch" Perry

...Davis channel is on Sirius 72 and XM 70 now through Nov. 25 (Wednesday). The channel will celebrate Davis' music, life and career. The hosts are Davis' son Erin, nephew drummer Vince Wilburn, Jr., and bassist-producer-writer Marcus...

In this article: Orange County, KABC, Key Club, and KFI

...Japanese-styled mini LP jackets, and includes a 250-page book with a biography, discography, and rare photos for the serious fan. Despite Davis' distinctive sound, his body of work spans 50 years of jazz from the 1940s swing and 1950s...

In this article: DVD, 'round About Midnight, My Funny Valentine, Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Chick Corea, Gil Evans, Grammy, and Sony

...on March 2, 1959 and returned for a second session on April 22. The album was released that August. Davis only told them what he wanted when they arrived. "It was just something Miles had on a slip of manuscript paper," he told AFP in...

In this article: Jimmy Cobb, Kind of Blue, Wynton Kelly, Billie Holiday, Abbey Road, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Madrid, and Rolling Stone magazine

...Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. All the music is available in 2009 over seven separate Prestige albums: Davis' Early Miles, Miles Davis And Horns, Bags Groove and Collectors' Items, Rollins' With The Modern Jazz Quartet, the Davis/Rollins...

In this article: Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath, Charlie Parker, and Art Taylor

Jazz This Week: Shaun Robinson, a Tribute to Miles Davis, Student Big Bands, and More While there are no major touring jazz musicians visiting St. Louis this weekend, and a relatively light schedule overall, there are some noteworthy...

In this article: In a Silent Way, Filles de Kilimanjaro, Washington University, and Twitter

...after a few years working with pick-up bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, Miles Davis assembled the band that's since become known as the First Great Quintet. Miles, sub-titled The New Miles...

In this article: Kind of Blue, John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, So What, Wynton Kelly, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb, and Blue

...an ill-conceived, synth-heavy recreation of the Miles/Gil oeuvre at Montreux as a swan song for a fast-fading Miles the music Evans and Davis created together has been revisited, performed and recorded anew. Justin DiCioccio has created...

In this article: Sketches of Spain, Miles Ahead, Gil Evans, Third stream, Dave Liebman, Jazz, Danny Bank, Kind of Blue, and Flamenco Sketches