Earlier this season, Columbia Records, in partnership with Legacy Recordings, outlined the impending release of Miles in France—Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8, due out on Nov.

Another live Miles Davis recording. Well, once the studio outtakes have dried up, this is the only seam left to mine. Happily, with advances in sound technology, old radio broadcasts are increasingly ...

Miles Davis’ live work with his Second Great Quintet — as documented in a handful of unreleased French concerts — is the focus of the upcoming eighth volume in the late jazz legend’s Bootleg Series.

At the time of this set’s performances, Miles Davis was one of the most pivotal figures in jazz music, and he had long seen France as being important to his career. From a 1949 festival appearance ...

1955/56 was an inflection point in the career of Miles Davis. The trumpeter and bandleader went from a promising talent to the high profile face of jazz and popular music. The two marathon sessions, ...

Norman Granz may not be a household name today, but the influential producer changed the way jazz music was presented and perceived. Through his Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concerts and album ...