1955: Coltrane joins Miles’s first Great Quintet. Davis has throat polyps removed ... here the modal musical landscape became horizontal.” Bitches Brew (1970) “This helped a lot of young ...

Today, the five tunes on "Kind of Blue"-particularly "So What" and "All Blues"-have become deeply embedded in the musical landscape ... Davis' band in 1963. "I was always asking Miles why is ...

In 1985 Miles Davis was on the verge of turning 60 ... presented a musical landscape that sounded very much of its mid-1980s time, but which also struck some listeners as an updated version ...

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 ...