From Lana Del Rey, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar to the members of Radiohead and guitar legends Carlos Santana, Duane Allman and Jerry Garcia, the number of musicians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Public Domain It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for ...

Over two spring days in 1959, trumpeter Miles Davis convened five other musicians at a Manhattan studio for a new recording project. Released 50 years ago this week, the resulting album — Kind of Blue ...

Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane in a New York studio in 1959. (Don Hunstein/Sony Music Entertainment) Review by Zack Ruskin With Miles Davis, words were never the focus.

James Kaplan’s new book, “3 Shades of Blue,” examines the lives of Miles, John Coltrane and Bill Evans, and the extraordinary album they made. By Peter Keepnews Peter Keepnews is an editor at The ...