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Miles Dewey Davis III, as his full name goes, was born in Alton, Illinois in 1926. Exceptionally versatile, the career of ...
Such sentiments come as no surprise to trumpet dynamo and San Diego Symphony jazz curator Gilbert Castellanos, who on Aug. 17 will lead “Miles Davis: Kind of Blue — In Concert” at the Rady ...
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Dr. Eddie Henderson and George Cables about the Miles Davis Celebration Festival at SMOKE Jazz Club ...
It can even be argued that jazzstopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward. Davis was the son of a dental surgeon, Dr. Miles DeweyDavis, Jr., and a music teacher, Cleota Mae (Henry) ...
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 ...
Frank Sinatra biographer James Kaplan has set his sights on three jazz giants — Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans — as their lives and their art lead up to the recording of “Kind of ...
“We’re in the studio and Miles is in the control room and John McLaughlin starts messing around on his guitar and I come in then – whomp! – bassist Michael Henderson hits us with this heavy groove.
Mick Jagger's production company is to produce a new film about Miles Davis, starring Damson Idris as the jazz musician.
Mick Jagger is set to produce the new Miles Davis biopic, 'Miles and Juliette', which will star 'F1' actor Damson Idris as the late legendary singer.
Miles Davis’ “Miles in France, 1963 & 1964: Miles Davis Quintet, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8.” (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune) Miles Davis, ‘Miles in France, 1963 & 1964 ...
Miles Dewey Davis III, as his full name goes, was born in Alton (Illinois) in 1926. Endlessly versatile, the career of this ...