As part of an ongoing centennial celebration of trumpeter, composer, and cultural icon Miles Davis, Craft Recordings has announced the release of a definitive new box set: Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings. Scheduled for release on June 19, this collection serves as a follow-up to the GRAMMY®-winning Miles ’55, shiftingContinue Reading
Miles Davis moved away from his hard bop style of jazz for his 1959 album Kind Of Blue. Davis had seen the Ballets Africains from Guinea in 1958 and he was aware of George Russell’s music theory book Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization. Pianist Bill Evans had worked withContinue Reading
Miles Davis’s “Moon Dreams” from The Complete Birth of the Cool Collection gets a video. The set was released in June and it was designed to honor the 70th anniversary of Davis’s Birth of the Cool recording sessions which are regarded as his first career breakthrough. The video for “MoonContinue Reading
Miles Davis’ Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions is getting a vinyl box set release. The collection of albums from the 1955-1956 period recorded with famous engineer Rudy Van Gelder was first released as a CD box set in 2006. Davis’ work with his first quintet at that time isContinue Reading