MILES DAVIS
Name: Miles Davis
Birth name: Miles Dewey Davis III
Born: 26 May 1926 Alton, Illinois, USA
Died: 28 September 1991 Santa Monica, California, USA
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 25, 1926 - September 28, 1991) 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 from the Southern United
States that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe "King" Oliver, Louis
Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. His greatest achievement as a
musician, however, was to move beyond being regarded as a distinctive and
influential stylist on his own instrument and to shape whole styles and ways of
making music through the work of his bands, in which many of the most important
jazz musicians of the second half of the Twentieth Century made their names.
Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13,
2006. He has also been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame, Big Band and
Jazz Hall of Fame, and Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.
Name: Miles Davis
Birth name: Miles Dewey Davis III
Born: 26 May 1926 Alton, Illinois, USA
Died: 28 September 1991 Santa Monica, California, USA
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 25, 1926 - September 28, 1991) 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 from the Southern United
States that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe "King" Oliver, Louis
Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. His greatest achievement as a
musician, however, was to move beyond being regarded as a distinctive and
influential stylist on his own instrument and to shape whole styles and ways of
making music through the work of his bands, in which many of the most important
jazz musicians of the second half of the Twentieth Century made their names.
Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13,
2006. He has also been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame, Big Band and
Jazz Hall of Fame, and Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.