*The Wallis Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills welcomed a crowd of jazz enthusiasts for a 100th birthday tribute to ...

A century after the birth of trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane, the seminal jazz innovators still pose a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, circa 1965. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) While it's a coincidence that trumpeter Miles Davis ...

This year would have marked the 100th birthday for both of the legendary players and composers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz great Miles Davis has this to say about why his 1957 album, "Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet," was named as such: "After ...

Get tickets to see Miles Davis, John Coltrane centennial celebration concerts by Ravi Coltrane and Terence Blanchard at SFJAZZ Center.

Sometime around the mid-1980’s, I bought an LP copy of Miles Davis & John Coltrane Live in Stockholm 1960, on the Swedish label Dragon Records. The March 1960 concert featured a stupendous Coltrane ...

1926 was a booming year for jazz. Louis Armstrong was busy revolutionizing improvisation with his Hot Five band. Jelly Roll Morton was laying down essential tracks with his Red Hot Peppers. And, in a ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the spring of 1960, John Coltrane played his last engagements as a sideman with Miles Davis on a European tour. Recordings from these concerts have been bootlegged for years. Now ...

A literal storm was brewing when Miles Davis performed a pair of remarkable San Diego shows on the same night at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay in April 1985. The resulting rains and winds were so ...

As discussed at length in the liners by Ashley Kahn, the general consensus at the time (and a theory Miles' held strongly too) was that his landmark Quintet —Miles Davis, John Coltrane, bassist Paul ...

There’s a great story behind “Miles Davis and John Coltrane—The Final Tour,” the sixth volume in Sony’s “Bootleg Series” of live recordings by Davis (it comes out March 23rd), and that story makes ...