Even among the greatest jazz albums, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue stands apart. It is the one jazz album everyone has heard of, ...

The magic of the jazz idol, 100 years since his birth and 35 years after his death, still lingers, as do the contradictions.

From Lana Del Rey, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to the members of Radiohead and guitar legends Carlos Santana, Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia, the number of musicians ...

It's Miles Davis' centennial, and fellow musicians discuss how the shapeshifting innovator transformed music over and over ...

SAN DIEGO — From Lana Del Rey, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to the members of Radiohead and guitar legends Carlos Santana, Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia, the number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Public Domain It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for ...

In the lineage of jazz, Miles Davis, born 100 years ago, presents something of a paradox: He looms as large as anyone, but he means many things to many people.

Step inside the Vinyl Vault as we break down Kind of Blue by Miles Davis — the best-selling jazz album of all time and one of the most influential records ever made. In this episode, we explore how ...

Trumpeter Miles Davis was the quintessence of cool. A musical icon as well as a cultural one, Davis took his place in the pantheon by ceaselessly seeking and often ushering in the “next thing” in jazz ...