This is FRESH AIR. In the spring of 1960, John Coltrane played his last engagements as a sideman with Miles Davis on a European tour. Recordings from these concerts have been bootlegged for years. Now ...

Urban legend has it that in 1957 Miles Davis charged up to a frightened woman at the Washateria Laundromat on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 25th Street. He bellowed, "How long does this ...

1926 was a booming year for jazz. Louis Armstrong was busy revolutionizing improvisation with his Hot Five band. Jelly Roll Morton was laying down essential tracks with his Red Hot Peppers. And, in a ...

Boston Symphony Hall is at Boston Symphony Hall, Boston, MA.

Ahead of his January 27 Santa Barbara appearance, composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard joins Air Time to talk about the Miles Davis and John Coltrane Centennial, a concert honoring two towering ...

The Emmet Cohen Quintet will perform music by Miles Davis and John Coltrane as part of the Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest.

The San Francisco-based string quartet will perform an original work Friday at the Carver Community Cultural Center that celebrates the two jazz icons.

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Describes the collaboration between Miles David and John Coltrane, focusing on their influences upon each other and the impact their music has made ...

In “3 Shades of Blue,” journalist James Kaplan — author, among other books, of “Frank: The Voice,” and “Sinatra: The Chairman” — takes a deep dive into these developments. His book is structured ...

Miles Davis & John Coltrane “The Final Tour — The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6” (Columbia/Legacy) The first entry in Columbia’s massive Miles Davis box set series in 2000 collected the complete studio ...

How do you cut to the chase when contemplating the work of these determinative demigods of jazz? How do you do it in just four tunes? The set started of with Coltrane's reworking of Eric Dolphy's "Red ...