Miles Davis

 History of Miles Davis

     Miles Davis was a son of a wealthy dental surgeon and a music teacher. Miles Davis was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. Miles’s father introduces him to the trumpet at age 13. He quickly advanced a talent by having a private tutor of Elwood Buchanan. Elwood Buchanan was a friend of his father who directed a music school. Buchanan played the trumpet without vibrato, which was a opposing to the common style used by trumpeters such as Louis Armstrong, and which would come to influence and help improve to Miles Davis. 

     Miles played professionally while in high school. At the age of 17, the famous Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker invited him to join them on stage when they needed a trumpet player because one of his band mates was sick. In 1944, Miles left Illinois to New York, where he joined the Institute of Musical Art (Julliard). While attending school, Miles look for Charlie Parker, and once he joined with him, Miles began to play at Harlem nightclubs. 

In 1945, Miles decided to drop out of Julliard with the permission of his father and become a full-time jazz musician.In 1949, Davis formed a nine-piece band with uncommon additions, such as the French horn, trombone and tuba.

In 1990, Miles received the Lifetime Achievement Grammy for his figure of work. In 1991, he played with Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Later in that same year, on September 21, 1991, that Davis would accede to pneumonia and respiratory failure and die at the age of 65. He was considered one of the top musicians of his era and he was an influence of Jazz. 

I really like the beat of this song and how he is playing the trumpet.