Ask enough peo­ple to name their favorite artist of any kind, and soon­er rather than lat­er, some­one will name Miles Davis. The trum­peter and jazz auteur behind — or, strict­ly speak­ing, up in front of — such unchal­lenged mas­ter­pieces as Birth of the Cool, Kind of Blue, Sketch­es of Spain, and Bitch­es Brew has long since ascend­ed to the … Con­tin­ue read­ing The Paint­ings of Miles Davis