Articles by Emily Steinhilber

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Without a Net, and with Love, Uncle Miles

by Emily Steinhilber
September 29, 2026

When I called Vince Wilburn Jr. to talk about Miles Davis at 100 (read our own tribute), he answered from the Chicago house where he grew up--the same house where Davis used to telephone his mother and ask her to lower the receiver toward the basement so he could listen to his teenage nephew rehearse. More than forty years later, that telephone became the spine of our conversation about family memory, musical inheritance, grief, and Davis' insistence that the musicians ...