The son of an East St. Louis dentist, Miles Davis displayed his genius at playing the trumpet as early as age 13, when he played with Eddie Randle’s Blue Devils. During the summer after he graduated ...
Any chance to see archival footage of Miles Davis in performance is a treat, mainly because, for a career that spanned six decades, so little of it seems available. And so EFORFilms, responsible for ...
In an age where celebrity funerals are de rigueur, the documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Coolfits right in and feels like a home-going service three decades in the making. Music industry titans ...
Septuagenarian trumpeter Carl Saunders, whose horn served and enhanced the music of Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and numerous other icons, has been a steady presence on the Summit ...
“You don’t have to sit in your chairs, or listen to this shit with monocles on,” trumpet player and bandleader Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah tells the crowd at the sold-out Harlem Stage Gatehouse, ...
On Nov. 5, Harvard was lucky enough to host famed jazz trumpet player and composer Ingrid Jensen in a performance with the Harvard Monday Jazz Band. Jensen, alongside Yaure Muniz, the Interim Director ...