1955/56 was an inflection point in the career of Miles Davis. The trumpeter and bandleader went from a promising talent to the high profile face of jazz and popular music. The two marathon sessions, ...

With the compact disc in its waning stages of dominance as a medium for music, The Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967—The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 restates the case for the archiving as a means of ...

At the time of this set’s performances, Miles Davis was one of the most pivotal figures in jazz music, and he had long seen France as being important to his career. From a 1949 festival appearance ...

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Jazz legends Miles Davis and John Coltrane will be remembered in concerts at NJPAC and during the Montclair Jazz Festival.

The "Second Quintet" - the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s - was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis- ...

Miles Davis’ live work with his Second Great Quintet — as documented in a handful of unreleased French concerts — is the focus of the upcoming eighth volume in the late jazz legend’s Bootleg Series.

Since the first volume of Miles Davis’ Bootleg Serieswas released in 2011, several other volumes featuring different recordings of live performances and studio sessions the legendary trumpeter had ...