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Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davis’ electric period band, died on Sunday at the age of 83. Joan Clancy, DeJohnette’s assistant, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was congestive heart failure. “He was very comfortableand at peace,” Clancy tells Rolling …

Miles Davis’ music rights have a new home following an agreement between the late jazz great’s estate and the independent music rights company Reservoir Media. As The New York Times reports, Reservoir has acquired 90 percent of Davis’ publishing rights and the estate’s income from his sound recordings. The deal …

Thank you for the party, but Sly could never stay. Sly Stone was always the ultimate mystery man of American music, a visionary genius who transformed the world with some of the most innovative sounds of the Sixties and Seventies. With Sly and the Family Stone, he fused funk, soul, …

Miles Davis’ live work with his Second Great Quintet — as documented in a handful of unreleased French concerts — is the focus of the upcoming eighth volume in the late jazz legend’s Bootleg Series. Miles in France – Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8, due out …

Kat Von D took the witness stand at her copyright infringement trial in California on Wednesday and told jurors she’s inked thousands of tattoos based off photographs and never once sought a licensing agreement because she considers the practice “fan art.” The artist who shot to fame on the reality …

Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D appeared in aLos Angeles federal courtroom Tuesday to fight claims she violated the copyright of an “iconic” portrait of jazz legend Miles Davis when she tattooed a version of the image on a friend without proper credit or compensation. The former star of reality …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. One night in July 1958, when Miles Davis performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, the jazz visionary would blow the audience away with an iconic set that’d go …

Wayne Shorter, the legendary, Grammy-winning saxophonist who — in addition to his own renowned albums and work with jazz supergroup Weather Report — collaborated with the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, and Joni Mitchell, has died at the age of 89. The venerated musician died Thursday morning, …

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …