In 1985, I couldn’t escape trumpeter Miles Davis. It seemed like he was everywhere. Raspy-voiced, hidden behind sunglasses, chewing gum, always intimidating. That fall, I watched him in an episode of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis onstage in West Germany, circa 1959. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) Thirty-five ...

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 ...

Miles Davis would have been a cool 100 years old were he alive today. Davis, who died in 1991, broke through with 1957's "The Birth of the Cool" and cool was something the trumpeter embodied. Born on ...

Fast cars, huge shades and, surprisingly, any old trumpet: These are the things that made Miles Miles. Credit...Clockwise from top left, Hulton Archive/Getty Images; David Redfern/Redferns; Mark ...

Few musicians have brought as many new sounds and sights to the jazz world as Miles Davis. An intense, ambitious musician, he has managed to make a limited instrumental technique suggest infinite ...

Miles Davis’ ceaseless reinventions of his art led Duke Ellington to call him the “Picasso of jazz.” Illustration by Benjamin Wachenje; source photo: Getty Images Miles Dewey Davis III’s first memory ...

Miles Davis’ live work with his Second Great Quintet — as documented in a handful of unreleased French concerts — is the focus of the upcoming eighth volume in the late jazz legend’s Bootleg Series.

Reservoir Media has acquired a majority interest in the Miles Davis publishing catalog, as well as as well as other rights associated with the late jazz icon’s estate, including a partnership in name ...