Miles Davis' nephew Vincent Wilburn Jr. brings the Miles Electric Band to Saratoga for the jazz icon's centennial year.

Miles Davis authored five musical revolutions with five different teams, by building a system for creating innovation through talent.

In 1954, Miles Davis's future meant considerably more than his past. Recording for Prestige since 1951 (The New Sounds was his first album for the label), the trumpeter came into his own in 1954.

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, who brought subtlety and swing to Miles Davis’ epochal “Kind of Blue” and many other classic albums, ...

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 ...

Even though Miles Davis is frequently credited with having changed the course of jazz history, he felt understood by a ...

What better gift could you think of bestowing on the Miles Davis fan in your family this holiday season than the exhaustively comprehensive The Complete On The Corner Sessions—a set that expands on ...

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 ...

Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis onstage in West Germany, circa 1959. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) Thirty-five years after his death, jazz giant Miles Davis, who would have turned 100 ...

American jazz musician Miles Davis, center, escorts friends to funeral of rock-guitarist Jimi Hendrix in Seattle, Wa., Oct. 1, 1970. Davis is one of many musicians gathered to pay tribute to Hendrix, ...

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 ...