A landmark album by jazz musician Miles Davis is commended by the US House of Representatives 50 years after it was released. more info

Rolling Stone — Broken Bells — the collaboration between Danger Mouse and the Shins’ James Mercer — will release their debut album March 9th, Pitchfork reports. Starting December 21st, first single “The High Road” will be available on the band’s Website.... more info

BBC News - UK — A landmark album by jazz musician Miles Davis is commended by the US House of Representatives 50 years after it was released. more info

MSN Music — House recognizes 50th anniversary of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" album more info

All About Jazz — The music may never again be a popular force, but it is still swinging--if you know where to listen. Put yourself in this jazz musician's shoes for a minute. Your record label just dropped two of its most acclaimed acts from the roster in order to a... more info

All About Jazz — In the center column, slightly south, you will find the latest Rifftides recommendations in Doug's Picks. We suggest two new CDs, an imperishable 50-year-old recording, a DVD of a blistering big band and a book held over from last time because readin... more info

Guardian Music — While segregation raged in the US, Miles Davis found the freedom and respect he craved in Paris. A new exhibition shows the feeling was mutualParis is many things: a city of romance; a hotbed of culture, and the inspiration for countless artists, mu... more info

Guardian Music — One of the great jazz educators and innovators, this unheralded pianist was an inspiration to generations of musiciansMiles Davis is often associated with the late-1940s jazz that came to be known as The Birth of the Cool. But the blind Chicago piani... more info

Guardian Music — The self-deprecating one-liners about the size of the audience or the quality of the food have gone (its eponymous co-founder once said that 3,000 flies can't be wrong); it is also more commercially managed these days, but Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club at... more info

Since surfacing 60 years ago, the music of Miles Davis has loomed large in the jazz world. This week,it's literally never been ... more info