Today, Nov. 13, Analogue Productions unveils Birth of the Blue, an early rarity from Miles Davis and the storied sextet behind Kind of Blue. In this first-ever standalone release, the dream team of ...

Some of the most crucial tracks by the jazz great Miles Davis have been hiding in plain sight for decades—four numbers, from a May 1958 session, set down by the sextet that the following year would ...

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 ...

Miles Dewey Davis III’s first memory was a blue-hot flame on the family stove. “I felt fear, real fear,” he recalled in his 1989 autobiography. He was also exhilarated. That blue, he said, presented ...