TLM: Can you explain how "Can I Play With U?" happened? AL: I'm basing this on my files and Eric's journals and his recollections. Shortly after the meeting at the airport, they swapped numbers and ...

The physical space required to store a piece of information has been steadily shrinking for the last 40 years of personal computing. But it may have recently reached a final frontier. Realistically, ...

Few are the musicians in any era that accurately inhabit the word "superstar" in the sense that artist Andy Warhol used it. He defined a "superstar" as a person of style, influence and panache, a ...

Researchers have made history by storing archival-quality audio recordings in DNA for the first time. Twist Bioscience—a company that specializes in DNA synthesis—announced that it worked in ...

In the long list of Miles Davis collaborators, the name Marcus Miller is rarely mentioned by the old guard of jazz scholars. When Miller's name does come up, it is usually tossed around in a ...

As part of the expansive 34th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, the cordial staff at SFJAZZ presented the outstanding Miles Electric Band in the spacious Miner Auditorium. Vincent Wilburn Jr., ...

When Miles Davis began recording new music again in 1981, it wasn’t too long before he recognized the future in a young funk rocker out of Minneapolis named Prince Rogers Nelson. “His shit was the ...

A single disc selection from the final phase of the trumpeter’s career, drawing on the music he released after his switch from Columbia in 1985. It is billed as the Very Best of Miles Davis, but is ...

Discover the man behind the legend. With full access to the Miles Davis Estate, the film features never-before-seen footage, including studio outtakes from his recording sessions, rare photos and new ...