How cool was Miles Davis? Cool enough to create jazz music so powerful it moved even anti-jazz consumers. His music is considered some of the most striking and inventive in history. ...more about Miles Davis
What is immediately noticeable upon listening to this delicately and superbly remastered version of Miles Davis classic first -- and only -- album with his original sextet is how deep the blues presen ...more about Miles Davis
This album is perhaps most significant for the process it set in motion -- the collaboration betweenGil Evansand Miles Davis that would producePorgy and BessandSketches of Spain, two of Davis' best al ...more about Miles Davis
Listening to Miles Davis' originally released version ofIn a Silent Wayin light of the complete sessions released by Sony in 2001 (Columbia Legacy 65362) reveals just how strategic and dramatic a stud ...more about Miles Davis
Thought by many to be the most revolutionary album in jazz history, having virtually created the genre known as jazz-rock fusion (for better or worse) and being the jazz album to most influence rock a ...more about Miles Davis
With their second album,Miles Smiles, the secondMiles Davis Quintetreally began to hit their stride, delving deeper into the more adventurous, exploratory side of their signature sound. ...more about Miles Davis
Nefertiti, the fourth album by Miles Davis' second classic quintet, continues the forward motion ofSorcerer, as the group settles into a low-key, exploratory groove, offering music with recognizable t ...more about Miles Davis
So dubbed because these three sessions -- two from early 1949, one from March 1950 -- are where the sound known as cool jazz essentially formed,The Birth of the Coolremains one of the defining, pivota ...more about Miles Davis
Could there be any more confrontational sound in Miles Davis' vast catalog than the distorted guitars and tinny double-timing drums reacting to a two-note bass riff funking it up on the first track fr ...more about Miles Davis