Miles Davis was an innovator from the moment he first picked up the trumpet. But for years, the public didn't have a clear enough picture of Davis' journey from jazz into the rock/funk sounds of James ...

Miles Davis authored five musical revolutions with five different teams, by building a system for creating innovation through talent.

In 1985, I couldn’t escape trumpeter Miles Davis. It seemed like he was everywhere. Raspy-voiced, hidden behind sunglasses, chewing gum, always intimidating. That fall, I watched him in an episode of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis onstage in West Germany, circa 1959. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) Thirty-five ...

From Lana Del Rey, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to the members of Radiohead and guitar legends Carlos Santana, Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia, the number of musicians ...

1949 was a year of massive change for Miles Davis, and not in a good way. It began, in January, with him fronting the first of the recording sessions, made with a nonet, that became generically known ...

Few musicians have brought as many new sounds and sights to the jazz world as Miles Davis. An intense, ambitious musician, he has managed to make a limited instrumental technique suggest infinite ...

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock knows when he is in the presence of genius, something revolutionary, a new way forward. He witnessed it as a young pianist with the Miles Davis Quintet, and again the first ...

Thirty-five years after his death, jazz giant Miles Davis, who would have turned 100 years old Tuesday, remains a truly larger-than-life figure in music and well beyond. Still possessor of the biggest ...