Miles Davis learned the trumpet at school and by the 1940s he was wowing crowds with big jazz names like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Miles Davis learned the trumpet at school and by the 1940s ...

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Ian Carr, a Scottish-born trumpeter who, like his formidable influence, Miles Davis, was an early practitioner of jazz-rock fusion and later repaid his artistic debt by writing Davis’s biography, died ...

His First Ride Was a Horse. Growing up, Miles Davis spent summers in Noble Lake, Arkansas, where his grandfather gave him his own horse at age seven. Horseback riding, like trumpet improvisation, ...

Back in the 1980s, Spin magazine asked Quincy Troupe who he’d like to write about and the poet and journalist didn’t hesitate to answer. “I said I’d like to write about Miles Davis,” Troupe, 83, says ...

Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane in a New York studio in 1959. (Don Hunstein/Sony Music Entertainment) Review by Zack Ruskin With Miles Davis, words were never the focus.

Yes, Virginia, the world does need another Miles Davis biography. Like the elephant in the Hindu fable, Davis is a looming figure only partially grasped by observers. This is because most people are ...

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.