Miles Davis
The most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, a pioneer of multiple jazz styles.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Davis in 2006.[1]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Miles Dewey Davis III
- Born
- 26 May 1926
- Birthplace
- Alton, Illinois, U.S.
- Died
- 28 September 1991
- Place of death
- Santa Monica, California, U.S.
- Genre
- Jazz
- cool jazz
- modal jazz
- jazz fusion
- Discography
- Miles Davis discography
- Occupation
- Musician
- bandleader
- composer
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City before dropping out to perform full-time.[2][3] Davis recorded the album Round About Midnight in 1955, his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers.[2] During the 1970s, he experimented with rock, funk, African rhythms, and emerging electronic music technology.[4] Davis's father gave him a trumpet on his 13th birthday, after which he began music lessons.[5]
From 1944 to 1948, Davis performed professionally for the first time as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet.[2] After retiring for five years because of health issues, Davis returned to music in the 1980s, working with younger musicians and incorporating pop elements into albums like The Man with the Horn.[1]
What the cited sources add
The Miles Davis Official Site states that his debut Columbia album Round About Midnight resulted from three long sessions with multiple recordings of carefully selected material.[6] The same source reports that Davis teamed with arranger Gil Evans for his second Columbia LP, Miles Ahead, on which he played the flugelhorn.[5] The African American Registry also states that Kind of Blue became a landmark in modern jazz and eventually sold over two million copies.[5] A book review by Bailey notes that Davis' recording career spanned almost 50 years between his first recordings in April 1945 and his final recorded dates in August 1991.[7]
The same review states that Yudkin considers the Christmas Eve 1954 recording of "Bags Groove" to be among the first hard bop recordings.[7] Bailey's review also reports that Davis' second quintet, active between 1965 and 1968, was responsible for six albums that introduced the jazz sub-genre post bop.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Miles Davis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Macnie, "Miles Davis Biography"; "Miles Davis", Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; "Miles Davis", Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Macnie, "Miles Davis Biography"; Gerald Lyn, "Ain't But a Place: an anthology of African American writings about St. Louis", Missouri History Museum, 1998, p. 205 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Miles Davis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Yanow 2005, p. 176 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Miles Davis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The Complete Illustrated History 2007, p. 100; Early 2001, p. 209; Early 2001, p. 209; Early 2001, p. 209 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Miles Davis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Freeman 2005, p. 9–11, 155–156; ;; Segell, "The Children of 'Bitches Brew'", December 28, 1978 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Miles Davis, innovative, influential, and respected jazz legend", African American Registry. facts only, no text reused. aaregistry.org
- "'Round About Midnight", Miles Davis Official Site. facts only, no text reused. milesdavis.com
- Bailey, "Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop", All About Jazz, April 11, 2008. facts only, no text reused. allaboutjazz.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Miles Davis (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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