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When Miles Davis had a minor stroke in 1982, he suffered from a frozen hand. Advised by his doctor to hold a pencil to aid recovery, he soon he began sketching.
Bill Laswell and Chelsea Carmichael join Matthew Sweet to look at the Miles Davis recording which fused the funk of James Brown & Stockhausen's experimentalism with sitar & tablas Show more From ...
Stanley Nelson’s 2019 Miles Davis biopic Birth of the Cool presents the trumpeter as a flawed character who reacted to musical change by forging new ideas of his own.
Miles Davis was always one step ahead of the game. In his 1989 autobiography, he claimed, "If anyone wants to keep creating, they have to be about change." The quote, spoken at the start of a new ...
Miles Davis, the trumpeter whose lyrical playing and ever-changing style made him a touchstone of 20th Century music, has been voted the greatest jazz artist of all time.
Kind of Blue: The jazz album by Miles Davis that transformed music To mark its 60th anniversary, Martin Chilton tells the story of how the trumpeter created a multimillion-selling masterpiece that ...
For one night only, jazz legend Miles Davis played in Wales, as his music led him to make rare appearances in different parts of the UK in the last two years of life.
Reviews Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Review – Documentary Takes the Bell Off the Horn Stanley Nelson brings a studious effort to Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, the music makes it real.