"Farewell,General Lee! I wish for your sake and mine that every damned Yankee on earth was sunk ten miles in hell!"

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Trumpet players Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and pianists Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell were some of them.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Through the years, John Lewis worked with some of the biggest names in jazz,including trumpet player Miles Davis.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

But his middle name is Miles which is my mother's maiden name." "Elizabeth is named after my grandmother.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Some of their hit songs include "500 Miles", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer."

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Over the years, the Newport Jazz Festival presented greats like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

She finally reached a huge pine tree, so tall it could be seen for many miles around.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Miles Watson of Los Angeles,California, says watching "Star Trek" on television is one of his earliest memories.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

one of the soldiers said to Smith. "You'll never be able to walk all those miles with that heavy pack on your back."

VOA: special.2009.12.12

This is the sound of a traditional jazz chord progression: But Miles Davis designed the music on "Kind of Blue" around a modal form.

VOA: special.2010.10.18

And then you do twenty-plus miles the next day,you sleep in a tent, you gotta wake up and you got to do it again.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

The anger of the sea was no more to them than it was to a group of chickens a thousand miles away on land.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Well,Bill's horse soon was injured so Bill had to carry it for a hundred miles.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The smoke was seen by United States navy ships a few miles outside Charleston Harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13