(ThyBlackMan.com) Few musicians have reshaped the sound of modern music as profoundly as Miles Davis. As a visionary trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, Davis revolutionized jazz multiple times over ...

Throughout his long, varied and storied career, Miles Davis was known for many things. As the father/godfather/originator/pioneer of bop, hard bop, fusion and other ...

Miles Davis died in 1991, but his influence on music is still being felt. The new film Miles Ahead, produced, co-written, directed by and starring Don Cheadle, is giving a new audience a fresh take on ...

"I've changed the course of music five times," Miles Davis once joked. The man wasn't lying: his need to try new genres made him one of the most impactful artists of the 20th century, a figure who ...

Many jazz fans are also baseball fans, and this mutual appreciation tends to manifest itself in two basic themes: American cultural milestones and endlessly anal statistical cross-referencing. The ...

It is possible to boil a musician's extensive career down into two CDs. This year, in honor of what would have been trumpeter Miles Davis' 75th birthday, Columbia/Legacy Recordings has compiled The ...

Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (New York University Press, 2003): Music can be an enormous intellectual stimulant for me, but I find that the kind of music that I want ...

Sixty-five years ago this week, “Kind of Blue” was recorded and performed by a young group of talented musicians —before they were jazz legends — under the leadership of the visionary trumpeter Miles ...

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