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Miles Davis


Born
in Alton, Illinois, The United States
May 26, 1926

Died
September 28, 1991

Website

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Music, Nonfiction


With warm, muted style on albums, such as Kind of Blue (1959), noted American trumpeter Miles Dewey Davis, Junior, later experimented with jazz-fusion.

Recordings of Armando Anthony Corea with group of Davis from 1968 to 1970 contributed to the development of jazz-fusion.


Miles Dewey Davis III led a band and composed.

From World War II, people widely considered Davis at the forefront of almost every major development as the most influential musicians of the 20th century, to the 1990s. He played various early bebop and one of the first cool records. He partially responsibly developed modal, and his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s arose.

Davis belongs to the great tradition that started with Buddy Bolden and ra ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 17,332 ratings · 1,026 reviews · 199 distinct works • Similar authors
Miles: The Autobiography
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4.20 avg rating — 17,165 ratings — published 1989 — 64 editions
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Miles Davis: The Playboy In...
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4.48 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2012
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Miles & Miles: The Autobiog...
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4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings — 3 editions
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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
4.43 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Miles Davis: The Collected ...
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4.38 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Birth of the Cool | Miles D...
4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2002
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The Art Of Miles Davis
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4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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Miles Davis Real Book
4.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Miles Davis for Solo Guitar...
4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Miles Davis: Jazz Play Alon...
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“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”
― Miles Davis
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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
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“Don't play what's there; play what's not there.”
― Miles Davis
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