Read Celebrating Miles Davis's 100th Birthday! Music Representing Three Time Periods (1950-1964, 1965-1968, and 1969-1982) by David W. Daniels on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Radio & ...

The space reserved for Miles Davis in the pantheon of 20th-century music is not simply because he mastered jazz, but because he refused to let it stand still. As musicians and fans mark the centenary ...

Today, we look back at the first real glimpse of electric Miles and the swan song of his brilliant Second Great Quintet. Jimi ...

The "Second Quintet" - the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s - was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis- ...

All-star tribute 'Unlimited Miles' at Presidio Theatre voyaged through five decades of the jazz giant's astonishments.

Miles was more like my good friend. He made sure I was eating, he took care of me, gave me money without asking when we were scuffling along. He was really special. He would ask me, ‘Are you reading?’ ...

In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades. This is ...