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Miles Davis Biography
Davis, Miles African Americans Miles Davis Jazz musician and artist A jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and painter, Davis played a vital role in the history of modern jazz.
During a career that spanned more than fifty years, Davis developed an original, lyrical soloing style and emerged as a pioneering leader of several jazz idioms, including cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, jazz-rock, and jazz-funk fusion.
Born: May 26, 1926; Alton, Illinois Died: September 28, 1991; Santa Monica, California Also known as: Miles Dewey Davis III Areas of achievement: Art and photography; Music: bandleading; Music: composition; Music: funk; Music: jazz Early Life Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois, to an affluent, middle-class African American family.
Davis’s father was a dental surgeon who moved his family to an all-white neighborhood in East St. Louis within a year of his son’s birth. Although Davis’s mother, Cleota Henry Davis, wanted him to learn how to