“Of course we’d all heard the myth of Miles Davis – the scary Miles Davis ... Miles playing a little bebop. “It was amazing ...

From bebop to cool jazz, from modal experimentation ... In celebration of Black History Month in February, here are 10 essential Miles Davis blues songs that remain as musically potent today ...

Sporting a green trumpet à la Miles, Paul Higgs started his set with Milestones (the streamlined modal tune from 1958) and ...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right, into his bebop band in the 1940s, Davis’s first professional job The Original Dixieland Jazz band, pictured in 1917 ...