Miles Davis

Also known as Miles Dewey Davis III, Miles Dewey Davis, III Davis, Miles Dewey Davis Jr

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)

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Miles Davis was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer who lived from 1926 to 1991 and is recognized as one of the most influential figures in jazz history. His innovations in trumpet playing and musical composition helped shape the direction of jazz across multiple decades.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 26 May 1926
Died: 28 September1991
Works: 33

Top works

Dark magus
Eight classic jazz originals you can play
Jazz at the Plaza (CK85245)
Miles Ahead
Siesta OST

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Acting · Alton, Illinois, USA

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.

Known for

Miles — himself2026
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)2025
They All Came Out to Montreux — Self (archive footage)2023
A History of the World According to Getty Images — Self (Archive Footage)2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (voice) (archive sound)2022
Universe2020
Miles Davis - Live in Montreal2020
Prince: Live At Paisley Park - December 31, 1987 — Self2020
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool — Self - Musician (archive footage)2019
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes — Self (archive footage)2019

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1926
Active to: 1991

bebopclassicalcool jazzfunkhard bopjazz

Discography

Member of

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,413,306
Total plays: 86,316,772

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
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Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 43,558x
<tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
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Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,354x
User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,781x

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Music

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Quotes

“I’ll play it and tell you what it is later.”
“I can't tell... All those white tenor players sound alike to me.”
“Is that what you wanted, Alfred?”
“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.”
“"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played." and "I love Pops" (Louis' nickname) … Louis has been through all kinds of styles. That's good tuba, by the way. You know you can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played — I mean even modern. I love his approach to the trumpet; he never sounds bad. He plays on the beat — with feeling. That's another phrase for swing. I also love the way he sings.”
“When they make records with all the mistakes in, as well as the rest, then they'll really make jazz records. If the mistakes aren't there too, it ain't none of you.”

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Official website: www.milesdavis.com
Image: Miles Davis 22.jpg

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Commons category: Miles Davis
date of birth: 1926-05-26
date of death: 1991-09-28
Commons gallery: Miles Davis
name in native language: Miles Davis
start of work period: 1944-00-00
social media followers: 45302
end of work period: 1991-00-00
pseudonym: Cleo Henry
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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) 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. In a career spanning nearly five decades, Davis was at the forefront of several major stylistic developments in jazz, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and jazz fusion. His legacy extends into rock, funk, classical, and hip-hop.

Born into an upper class family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens. He left to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly afterwards, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, while addicted to heroin, Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music under Prestige Records. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records, and recorded the album 'Round About Midnight in 1955. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish music–influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold more than five million copies in the U.S. alone and 6.4 million copies worldwide.