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Miles Dewey Davis III
(May
26, 1926 – September 28, 1991)
An American
jazz musician widely considered to be one of the
most influential 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 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 was late in a line of jazz trumpeters that
started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe
"King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and
Dizzy Gillespie. Many of the major figures in
post-war jazz played in one of Davis' groups at
some point in their career.
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, and the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. |
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