Miles Davis News

Jazz legend Miles Davis performed the world over, but lived on W. 77th St. The site will soon be marked with a cultural medallion.

It's 11 p.m. on a pleasant early May evening at Havana Hideout in downtown LDub and Tom Regis and his boys are hitting a slow, bluesy version of "Mercy Mercy Mercy," the Joe Zawinul tune made famous by Cannonball Adderley.

Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen is one of a handful of creative upstarts, like trumpeters Nils Petter Molvr or Erik Truffaz , who are embracing electronics and the improvisational side of jazz in their music.

Bebop bassist Oscar Pettiford made his reputation playing with many of the cutting edge jazz artists of the '40s and '50s. An innovative force, his work with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and a host of other jazz giants is often credited with expanding and extending the melodic range and solo possibilities of an instrument more often than not limited to the rhythm section. Late in the '40s, while recovering from a broken arm, he added the cello to his repertoire.

Singer Sarah Vaughan came up in the 1940s alongside bebop lions Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker , starting out in Earl Hines ' big band.

Singer Sarah Vaughan came up in the 1940s alongside bebop lions Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker , starting out in Earl Hines ' big band.

As a sideman to bop's reigning kings ' Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Tadd Dameron ' he was more a bridesmaid than a bride... Read more.

Chick Corea is a celebrated fusion pianist, keyboardist and composer whose work has molded modern jazz for more than five decades.

Loving covers of popular music is a grand jazz tradition. From blues vamps to show tunes to popular song of the day, jazz musicians have explored the harmonic opportunities found in pop music.

In the world of rock music , there are few so great that massive amounts of people still speak of them decades later.

With a set that included everything from Miles Davis to Michael Jackson, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti took the stage fir a sold out show at the Pechanga Theater Saturday, May 11.

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY missed out on the chance to form a supergroup with fellow music icons JIMI HENDRIX and MILES DAVIS in 1969 - because he was on holiday.

Bassist Gary Peacock has played a major role in the development of avant garde jazz.

Alex Wilson spent much of last year touring the world as musical director and featured pianist for Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, and far from being drained by their frenetic musical pace and prodigious mileage, he has returned to his own music with conspicuous vigour.

The man with the white walrus mustache and ergonomic cane sat at the front of the Minneapolis recording studio he founded.

Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970.

BLUE NOTE RECORDS TO PARTNER WITH ARTISTSHARE TO CREATE BLUE NOTE/ARTISTSHARE A GROUNDBREAKING HYBRID CROWDFUNDING/RECORD LABEL MODEL DEDICATED TO NURTURING NEW JAZZ TALENT The legendary jazz label Blue Note Records, historic home to such greats as Thelonious Monk , Miles Davis , John Coltrane , Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock , and current home to ... (more)

This is a Sept. 25, 1969 file photo of Beatle Paul McCartney at the London Pavilion, London.

25, 1969 file photo of Beatle Paul McCartney at the London Pavilion, London. . FILE - In this July 11, 1987 file photo, Miles Davis plays his trumpet during the annual North Sea Jazz Festival held in the Hague Netherlands.

25, 1969 file photo of Beatle Paul McCartney at the London Pavilion, London. . FILE - In this July 11, 1987 file photo, Miles Davis plays his trumpet during the annual North Sea Jazz Festival held in the Hague Netherlands.