In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades. This is ...

What changed all that was the recruitment of visionary tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter in September 1964, and a revolutionary decision instigated by a tour-weary Tony Williams, tired of playing the ...

The Dallas Mavericks are turning a new leaf after trading Anthony Davis to the Washington Wizards. With the deal being finalized, the Mavericks will send Davis, Jaden Hardy, D'Angelo Russell and Dante ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 100th anniversary of Miles Dewey Davis III’s birthday is May 26. Three and a half decades after his passing, the trumpeter and bandleader’s ever-evolving ...

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 ...

Anthony Davis (hand) will be sidelined about 6 weeks, but the 10-time All-Star won’t need surgery to repair ligament damage. The Associated Press Anthony Davis is not expected to need surgery on his ...

Miles Davis’ ceaseless reinventions of his art led Duke Ellington to call him the “Picasso of jazz.” Illustration by Benjamin Wachenje; source photo: Getty Images Miles Dewey Davis III’s first memory ...

One of the signal releases from Miles Davis’s second ‘great quintet’, the two-night stand recorded for The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965 has long been held in high esteem by both Davis ...

Trumpeter Miles Davis was the quintessence of cool. A musical icon as well as a cultural one, Davis took his place in the pantheon by ceaselessly seeking and often ushering in the “next thing” in jazz ...

The Miles Davis estate gave WSJ. Magazine access to his personal archive—the first publication to be granted such a look. Stylist Ib Kamara headed to the famed trumpeter’s archive in California to ...

From the time he burst onto the scene in the mid-1940s to the day he died, Miles Davis was as divisive as he was lauded, as unpredictable as he was pioneering, and as proud as he was troubled. The ...

Next year would have marked Miles Davis’ 100th birthday. In advance of the centennial, independent music rights company Reservoir Media has struck a deal with the Miles Davis estate to acquire 90% of ...