“Music is always there, it comes before everything,” Miles Davis says early in director Stanley Nelson’s (The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution) documentary Miles Davis: Birth of ...

Miles Davis' newly reissued double LP "The Complete Birth of the Cool" is one of them. It's rich, rewarding, sophisticated music that lifts your spirits — might even make you smile. It's music ...

Stanley Nelson's superbly crafted documentary taps deep into the mystique of Miles Davis ... it’s all part of the same story: Davis’ need to cast music as a form of possession.

Miles Dewey Davis III, as his full name goes, was born in Alton (Illinois) in 1926. Endlessly versatile, the career of this ...

Until now, this music was tacked onto various reissues, most notably at the end of the six-disc or nine-LP set “The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis With John Coltrane,” which was ...

Audiophiles owe themselves a listen to Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics Series of new Miles Davis ... a core quartet — Davis, Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke — in expanded sextet and ...

the complete session from Miles Davis' soundtrack recording to the 1958 Louis Malle film, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud has been out of print on CD for many years. Now Universal Music France has rectified ...

The eighth volume of Sony Legacy’s Bootleg series, a six-CD box set, traces the formation of Miles Davis’s second ... were all then new to both Davis’s music and life on the road, but ...

and authenticity to commit to telling a story really focusing on the music itself. Your narration is strictly drawn from primary Miles Davis sources. Was there any interpretation on your part ...

Miles Dewey Davis III, as his full name goes, was born in Alton, Illinois in 1926. Exceptionally versatile, the career of ...