Miles Davis

Rock vs. jazz Rock vs. jazz

For just the second time in 50 years, the top award at the Grammys went to a jazz album. Do the two genres have anything to say to each other?
  • Song of the Day: "Anti Love Song," Betty Davis

    Steamy bedroom funk from a former Mrs. Miles Davis.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    The composer of "the first great piece of electronic music" influenced the Beatles, Miles Davis and numberless others. And he comes from Sirius.
  • Keith Jarrett

    A giant of jazz innovation finds himself reaching new heights by deftly interpreting classic tunes.
  • The return of Miriam Makeba

    "Mama Africa" is back in the USA with a new CD, a summer tour and a lot to say.
  • Sharps & Flats

    Three kings -- Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly -- rip through six CDs of the most ravishing jazz ever played.
  • Thanks, Metatron!

    Carlos Santana gives credit where it's probably not due; stepchild from hell? Hey! That's Shaun Cassidy you're talking about, mister! Plus: Barry White holds a really long grudge.
  • Sharps & Flats

    "Clicks + Cuts" reconciles avant-electronic music with the politics of dancing.
  • Babatunde Olatunji: Delivering the cure

    A strange stranger in a strange land, decades ago Baba introduced millions to the medicine of drumming. Now 72, he's still got the beat.
  • Thinking outside the box

    Not another list of multi-disc sonic money-shots.
  • Sharps & Flats: Elvis Presley

  • Thinking inside the box

    The year's best in box sets provides obsessed fans of country, jazz, blues and rock with some treasures and some trash.
  • A master at dangerous play

    'Bitches Brew' changed jazz history -- and proved again that Miles Davis was the Proteus of 20th century music.
  • Beastie Boys

  • Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

    Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine.
  • Sharps and Flats: Miles Davis Quintet

    The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings -- Sony/Legacy
  • Happy End of the World

  • Black Beauty: Live at Fillmore West

  • Tony Williams

    Michael E. Ross reviews "Wilderness", the best of Tony Williams.
  • Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea

    A survey of the year's best in box sets.
  • The Awful Truth

    The First Annual Golden Panty Awards

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