Jazz Articles about Miles Davis

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Interview

Author George Cole On Miles Davis' Final Decade

by Jack Kenny
May 9, 2026

All About Jazz interviews George Cole author of The Last Miles, which concentrates on the final period of Miles Davis' life. Cole also maintains a website with additional interviews and research about Davis' life between 1980 and 1991. In these pages John Kelman wrote about The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991, “There simply hasn't been another book published on Miles Davis, in any period that has managed to obtain the wealth of interview material and cover ...

Radio & Podcasts

Musicians on Miles

by Larry Slater
May 8, 2026

Miles Davis would have been 100 years old in May of 2026. He was in the forefront of jazz for over 40 years, and though he's been gone for decades, his impact on musicians continues to this day. In this hour, you'll hear jazz musicians discuss the Miles Davis recordings that helped shape their music. The hour features commentary from trumpeter Jon Faddis on “'Round About Midnight," and trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on “It Never ...

So You Don't Like Jazz

5 Epic Jazz Songs That Forever Changed the World

by Alan Bryson
April 9, 2026

So You Don't Like Jazz normally focuses on ways to turn people on to jazz, but this column focuses on five jazz songs whose impact profoundly changed modern music. In the process they also demonstrated that jazz could be successful in a modern culture dominated by pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues. Arguably the two most powerful examples were released in 1959, on the cusp of the '60s, followed by another in 1961, and then two more examples ...

Book Review

Listening To Prestige

by Kyle Simpler
March 17, 2026

Listening To Prestige Tad Richards 278 Pages ISBN: # 9798855804959 Excelsior Editions/State University of New York 2026 Shortly after World War II ended, a young music lover named Bob Weinstock opened a record store in Times Square, New York City. The store specialized in jazz recordings, the music that Weinstock and his father loved collecting. Things took a dramatic turn one day when Alfred Lion, the owner of Blue Note Records, stopped by ...

Book Review

Tad Richards: Listening to prestige

by Angelo Leonardi
March 13, 2026

Listening to Prestige Tad Richards 266 pagine ISBN: #978-8-85580495-9 State University Of New York Press 2025 Sappiamo tutti che il ruolo delle etichette indipendenti è stato determinante per la diffusione del jazz moderno, negli Stati Uniti degli anni quaranta e cinquanta. Se il contributo della Blue Note Records è stato ampiamente analizzato, quello della Prestige Records è rimasto circoscritto ad articoli su riviste specializzate o rievocazioni sul Web. Ora è disponibile ...

The Blue Note Portal

Claude Debussy on So What

by Blue Note Portal
November 3, 2025

There are rare sacred moments when music stops being sound and becomes light. A perfect note hangs in the air, silence breathes, and for the space of a heartbeat, the veil thins--revealing a place where music lives, along with pure thought, beyond time, space and language. There is only harmonic resonance: the silent conversation between souls who listen deeper than time. Sometimes the opening swings wider, and the Blue Note Portal opens. Claude Debussy (from his dairy) to ...

Album Review

Miles Davis: Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings

Read "Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
September 10, 2025

It is hard to imagine any casual jazz fan failing a blindfold test on the vinyls on offer here. It is a game people play: how quickly can you identify the performer. A lot of horn players make it into the competition, because horns are boisterous and mimic the human voice and persona. Clark Terry, some say, requires one note. And for much of his career, starting in the mid-1950s, a compatriot and mentee of Terry's: Miles Davis was equally ...