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Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid-'40s to the early '90s, since he was in the thick of almost every important innovation and stylistic development in the music during that period, and he often led the way in those changes, both with his own performances and recordings and by choosing sidemen and collaborators who forged the new directions. It can even be argued that jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward.

Album

Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud

By Miles Davis

Label: Decca Records France
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD1 Générique; L’Assassinat de Carala; Sur l’autoroute; Julien dans l’ascenseur; Florence sur les Champs-Elysées; Dîner au motel; Evasion de Julien; Visite du vigile; Au Bar du Petit Bac; Chez le photographe du motel; CD2 Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées; Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 3; Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 3 (Générique); Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 4; (Florence sur les Champs-Elysées); Assassinat – take 1 (Visite du vigile); Assassinat – take 2 (Julien dans l’ascenseur); Assassinat – take 3 (L’assassinat de Carala); Motel (Dîner au motel); Final – take 1; Final – take 2; Final – take 3; (Chez le photographe du motel); L’Interrogatoire de Julien; Ascenseur (Evasion de Julien); Petit Bac – take 1; Petit Bac – take 2 (Au bar du Petit Bac); Voiture – take 1; Voiture – take 2 (Sur l’autoroute);

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Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings

By Miles Davis

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: In Your Own Sweet Way (March 16, 1956 version); No Line; Vierd Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way (May 11, 1956 version); Diane; Trane’s Blues; Something I Dreamed Last Night; It Could Happen to You; Woody’n You; Ahmad’s Blues. CD2: Surrey with the Fringe on Top; It Never Entered My Mind; When I Fall in Love; Salt Peanuts; Four; The Theme (Take 1); The Theme (Take 2); If I Were a Bell; Well, You Needn’t. CD3: ’Round Midnight; Half Nelson; You’re My Everything; I Could Write a Book; Oleo; Airegin; Tune Up; When Lights Are Low; Blues by Five; My Funny Valentine.

Album

Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe

By Miles Davis

Label: AlAy
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD1: Directions; Bitches Brew; It’s About That Time; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Sanctuary; Bitches Brew; Paraphernalia; Nefertiti. CD2: Masqualero; This; Directions; Bitches Brew; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Sanctuary; It’s About Time; Masqualero.

Article: Interview

Erik Truffaz and Antonio Lizana on "Sketches of Spain"

by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
November 12, 2026

This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. Few Miles Davis albums are as deeply rooted in a specific place as Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960). Yet the Spain imagined by Davis and Gil Evans was always an outsider's vision--an inspired interpretation rather than an immersion in ...

Article: Interview

Yazz Ahmed on "Bitches Brew"

by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
November 11, 2026

This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. More than fifty years after its release, Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) still sounds like a leap into the unknown. It remains one of Miles Davis' boldest reinventions, a work whose influence extends well beyond jazz into electronic music, rock ...

Article: Interview

Avishai Cohen on "Jack Johnson"

by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
November 10, 2026

This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. More than a conventional studio album, Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1971) documents a creative process. Assembled by producer Teo Macero from long, exploratory sessions, it embraces spontaneity, interruption and reinvention as part of its very fabric. That openness ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Happy Birthday Rudy Van Gelder! Also 4 Korners Portal Of Gold Album

by David W. Daniels
November 10, 2026

In addition to honoring the album engineering of Rudy Van Gelder with selections from several albums for which he was the recording engineer, this week's program recognizes the birthdays of Jeremy Pelt, Arturo Sandoval, Jeff Lorber, and others. Also featuring newly released music from Janis Siegel, Ralph Moore with David Kikoski, Russell Gunn, and others.

Article: Album Review

Ken Vandermark: A Living Poets Group

Read "A Living Poets Group" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 9, 2026

Artists such as Michelangelo, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci relied on the Medici family to support their creative endeavors. Other influential patrons included Catherine the Great of Russia and Louis XIV of France, while in the 20th century, the Rockefeller Foundation and Peggy Guggenheim helped provide artists with the resources to create ambitious works. Today, crowdfunding ...

Article: Jazz in Long Form

Flamenco Y Jazz Caminan Por Distintas Sendas De Protección Institucional

by Francisco Julio Arenas Cabello
November 7, 2026

Se cumplen nueve décadas desde que acallaron la voz del poeta español, Federico García Lorca (Granada, 1898-Granada, 18 de agosto de 1936), asesinado durante la Guerra Civil española. Sin embargo, su mirada sobre el duende--expresión de una emoción profunda y oscura--y el blues, forjada tanto por Granada como por Harlem, sigue viva y necesitada de protección ...