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There are rare sacred moments when music stops being sound and becomes light. A perfect note hangs in the air, silence breathes, and for the space of a heartbeat, the veil thins—revealing a place ...

It's Miles Davis' centennial, and fellow musicians discuss how the shapeshifting innovator transformed music over and over again and became more than a jazz legend. He's a cultural cornerstone.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Miles Davis debuts "Conception" on several rankings in the U.K., ...

Miles Davis would have been a cool 100 years old were he alive today. Davis, who died in 1991, broke through with 1957's "The Birth of the Cool" and cool was something the trumpeter embodied. Born on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dane and Kim Stewart join Musichead gallery owner and curator Sam Milgrom as he examines a photo of Miles Davis taken by their ...

Legendary trumpeter and St. Louis area native Miles Davis is one of the most talked-about and written-about musicians of the late 20th century, and he's now the subject of yet another book, Miles on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis onstage in West Germany, circa 1959. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) Thirty-five ...

Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis onstage in West Germany, circa 1959. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images) Thirty-five years after his death, jazz giant Miles Davis, who would have turned 100 ...