Miles Davis is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of jazz music. Over the course of his career, he had a significant impact on jazz piano, jazz composition, and jazz ...

Celebrate jazz icon Miles Davis's 100th birthday in Alton with a free kickoff, festival, live bands, art tributes, and scholarships honoring his legacy.

This is FRESH AIR. We're ending with some FRESH AIR family news. We want to send our sympathy and love to Terry Gross. Her husband, the noted writer and jazz critic Francis Davis, died Monday under ...

While it's a coincidence that trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane were both born in 1926, the numerous Bay Area concerts marking their centennial birthdays this year highlight the ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. “Jazz has absorbed whatever was around from the very beginning,” the ...

Francis Davis, an articulate and gimlet-eyed cultural critic who achieved an eminent stature in jazz, died on Monday at his home in Philadelphia. He was 78. His wife, Terry Gross, the co-executive ...

He wrote prolifically about various aspects of the arts and popular culture. But he kept his focus on jazz, celebrating its past while worrying about its future. By Adam Nossiter Francis Davis, a ...