Miles Davisauthor profile |
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| born | May 26, 1926 |
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| died | September 28, 1991 |
| gender | male |
| place of birth | Alton, Illinois, United States |
| genre | Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography, Entertainment |
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about this author
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. He was partially responsible for the development of modal jazz, and jazz fusion arose from his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Davis belongs to the great tradition of jazz trumpeters that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, although unlike those musicians he was never considered t...more |
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quotes by Miles Davis
"Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up."
— Miles Davis
— Miles Davis
"I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have his shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it."
— Miles Davis
— Miles Davis










