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A jazz trumpeter, composer, and small-band leader, Miles Davis was the leading jazz musician for more than two decades. His legend continued to grow even after poor health and diminished creativity removed him from jazz royalty.
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FIFTEEN years after his death Miles Davis has been enjoying a comeback tour. A new marketing campaign, capitalizing on what would have been his 80th birthday earlier this year, has been touting Davis, the trumpeter, bandleader and jazz legend, as “the original icon of cool.” His music is being repackaged and (of course) remixed. And, as befits a musical giant, his life story — one that has long eluded Hollywood — appears finally to be headed for the big screen.
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During 1968-69 Miles Davis' music continued to change. He persuaded Hancock to use electric keyboards, Shorter started doubling on soprano, the influence of rock began to be felt and, after the rhythm section changed (to Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette), Davis headed one of the earliest fusion bands.
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Miles Davis once said that music was "a curse" for him because he thought of nothing else while he was awake. Music was his life. But it wasn't always the passion of his life. At first, Miles wanted to be a baseball player and than a doctor, like his father, who was a dentist. But after his father gave him his first trumpet, at the age of 11, all young Miles wanted to do was learn to play the golden horn better. He practiced for hours everyday and when he entered Lincoln High School, in East St. Louis, Illinois, where he grew up, he became the trumpet star of the band.
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Miles Davis (1926-1991) grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois. His father was a wealthy dentist who was able to provide Miles a privileged life. His family had a big house in the city and a 200 acre country estate where Miles loved to ride horses when he was a boy. After receiving a trumpet from his father, Miles began trumpet lessons and practiced his instrument regularly. He loved music and admired jazz greats, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whom he listened to on the radio.
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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazzmusicians of the latter half of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on some early bebop records and recorded 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 became famous for his languid, melodic style and his laconic, and at times confrontational, personality.
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