(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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