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Miles Davis

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Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid-'40s to the early '90s, since he was in the thick of almost every important innovation and stylistic development in the music during that period, and he often led the way in those changes, both with his own performances and recordings and by choosing sidemen and collaborators who forged the new directions. It can even be argued that jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward.

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Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud

Label: Decca Records France
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD1 Générique; L’Assassinat de Carala; Sur l’autoroute; Julien dans l’ascenseur; Florence sur les Champs-Elysées; Dîner au motel; Evasion de Julien; Visite du vigile; Au Bar du Petit Bac; Chez le photographe du motel; CD2 Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées; Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 3; Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 3 (Générique); Nuit sur les Champs-Elysées – take 4; (Florence sur les Champs-Elysées); Assassinat – take 1 (Visite du vigile); Assassinat – take 2 (Julien dans l’ascenseur); Assassinat – take 3 (L’assassinat de Carala); Motel (Dîner au motel); Final – take 1; Final – take 2; Final – take 3; (Chez le photographe du motel); L’Interrogatoire de Julien; Ascenseur (Evasion de Julien); Petit Bac – take 1; Petit Bac – take 2 (Au bar du Petit Bac); Voiture – take 1; Voiture – take 2 (Sur l’autoroute);

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Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: In Your Own Sweet Way (March 16, 1956 version); No Line; Vierd Blues; In Your Own Sweet Way (May 11, 1956 version); Diane; Trane’s Blues; Something I Dreamed Last Night; It Could Happen to You; Woody’n You; Ahmad’s Blues. CD2: Surrey with the Fringe on Top; It Never Entered My Mind; When I Fall in Love; Salt Peanuts; Four; The Theme (Take 1); The Theme (Take 2); If I Were a Bell; Well, You Needn’t. CD3: ’Round Midnight; Half Nelson; You’re My Everything; I Could Write a Book; Oleo; Airegin; Tune Up; When Lights Are Low; Blues by Five; My Funny Valentine.

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Article: Interview

Miho Hazama: Where Groove Meets Orchestra

Read "Miho Hazama: Where Groove Meets Orchestra" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Since making her debut in 2013 at the helm of M_Unit with Journey to Journey, Miho Hazama has built a body of work that has firmly established her among the leading orchestrators of her generation. Over the past decade, the Japanese composer and conductor has collaborated extensively with European orchestras, and since 2020 she ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

Sonny Rollins Blows His Last At 95

Read "Sonny Rollins Blows His Last At 95" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Sonny Rollins, the world-renowned tenor saxophonist who lit up the jazz world for nearly seven decades, has died at the age of 95. Hailed in many quarters as the greatest improvising musician in jazz, his passing feels like the end of an era. In a career that began in the 1940s, Rollins played with ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Miles on Miles: Collaborations with Gil Evans & The 2nd Great Quintet

Read "Miles on Miles: Collaborations with Gil Evans & The 2nd Great Quintet" reviewed by Larry Slater


In the third and final hour of “Miles on Miles," you'll hear Miles Davis discuss his recordings with Gil Evans, and the creation of his second great quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Ron Carter.Miles narration is from his autobiography “Miles: The Autobiography," which was published in 1989. Levar Burton read ...

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Article: In Pictures

First Weekend of the 2026 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Read "First Weekend of the 2026 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival" reviewed by Mark Robbins


The Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots in New Orleans is transformed for two weekends a year into the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Once inside the gates the walk to the far end of the fair grounds to the Jazz Tent is filled the sounds of  music from the Kid's Tent, zydeco, soul and ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Refractions Of Miles Davis At 100

Read "Refractions Of Miles Davis At 100" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


This episode pays tribute to Miles Davis on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Our tribute focuses on musicians who live with the repercussions of and were in dialogue with Miles and his work.Playlist John Coltrane Quartet “Miles' Mode (Live At The Village Vanguard, November 3, 1961)" from The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings ...

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Article: Album Review

Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud

Read "Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud" reviewed by Jack Kenny


A legend has grown up around the music Miles Davis created for Louis Malle's debut film Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud). The story goes that Davis arrived at the Paris studio having never seen the film. He watched the rushes once, then improvised as the footage rolled with his European quintet--René Urtreger on piano, ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim Robitaille: Sonic

Read "Sonic" reviewed by Jack Bowers


As guitarist in a trio setting, Jim Robitaille has to wear a number of hats: melodic, harmonic and improvisational. And on Sonic, the Massachusetts-based guitarist's ninth recording under his name, Robitaille dons one more headdress, as eight of the album's ten numbers are his original compositions. Robitaille plays his parts well, as do his ...


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