Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis 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 after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Miles Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records and recorded the 1957 album 'Round About Midnight. 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-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 over five million copies in the U.S.
Davis made several lineup changes while recording Someday My Prince Will Come (1961), his 1961 Blackhawk concerts, and Seven Steps to Heaven (1963), another mainstream success that introduced bassist Ron Carter, pianist Herbie Hancock, and drummer Tony Williams. After adding saxophonist Wayne Shorter to his new quintet in 1964, Davis led them on a series of more abstract recordings often composed by the band members, helping pioneer the post-bop genre with albums such as E.S.P (1965) and Miles Smiles (1967), before transitioning into his electric period. During the 1970s, he experimented with rock, funk, African rhythms, emerging electronic music technology, and an ever-changing line-up of musicians, including keyboardist Joe Zawinul, drummer Al Foster, and guitarist John McLaughlin. This period, beginning with Davis' 1969 studio album In a Silent Way and concluding with the 1975 concert recording Agharta, was the most controversial in his career, alienating and challenging many in jazz. His million-selling 1970 record Bitches Brew helped spark a resurgence in the genre's commercial popularity with jazz fusion as the decade progressed.
After a five-year retirement due to poor health, Davis resumed his career in the 1980s, employing younger musicians and pop sounds on albums such as The Man with the Horn (1981) and Tutu (1986). Critics were generally unreceptive but the decade garnered the trumpeter his highest level of commercial recognition. He performed sold-out concerts worldwide, while branching out into visual arts, film, and television work, before his death in 1991 from the combined effects of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. In 2006, Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which recognized him as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz." Rolling Stone described him as "the most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century," while Gerald Early called him inarguably one of the most influential and innovative musicians of that period. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis
Albums:
- Young Miles & Birth of the Cool (1945-1950)
- 1945-47 - First Miles
- 1945-1946 - Young Miles Vol 1
- 1946 - Young Miles Vol. 2
- 1948-50 - The Complete Birth Of The Cool
- 1949 - Miles Davis Quintet In Paris (with Tadd Dameron)
- 1950 - The Birdland Sessions
- 1950 - The Last Bebop Session - Live At Birdland, June 30, 1950
- BOX-SET - 1945-50 - Young Miles (4 CDs)
- Hard Bop and the Blue Period (1951–1956)
- 1951-56 - Bluing - Miles Davis Plays The Blues
- 1951 - Conception (with Stan Getz & Lee Konitz)
- 1951 - Dig (with Sonny Rollins)
- 1952 - Miles Davis & Jimmy Forrest - Our Delight
- 1952-53 - The Complete Blue Note Sessions (2 CDs)
- 1953-56 - Collectors' Items
- 1953 - Miles Davis And Horns
- 1953 - Miles Davis with The Lighthouse All-Stars- At Last!
- 1954-56 - Miles Davis And The Modern Jazz Giants
- 1954 - Bags' Groove
- 1954 - Blue Haze
- 1954 - Walkin'
- 1955 - Live At The Hi-Hat Boston (with The Hi-Hat All Stars)
- 1955 - Blue Moods
- 1955 - Quintet&Sextet (with Milt Jackson)
- 1955 - The Musings Of Miles
- 1956 - Cookin'
- 1956 - European Tour '56 with The MJQ & Lester Young
- 1956 - Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
- 1956 - Steamin'
- 1956 - The Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley (with Spider Burks)
- 1956 - Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
- 1st Great Quintet\Sextet + Kind of Blue + Collaboration with Gil Evans (1955–1963)
- 1955-1961 - The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis & John Coltrane (6 CDs)
- 1955 - The New Miles Davis Quintet
- 1956 - The Miles Davis Quintet at Peacock Alley
- 1956-57 - The Complete Live Recordings 1956-1957 (4 CDs)
- 1957-58 - Legrand Jazz & Ascenseur pour l`echafaud (with Michel Legrand)
- 1957 - Amsterdam Concert (With Barney Wilen)
- 1957 - Miles Ahead
- 1957 - 'Round About Midnight (Legacy Edition – 2 CDs)
- 1958-59 - Broadcast Sessions
- 1958-1959 - Live In New York with John Coltrane
- 1958 - 1958Miles (Japanese mini-LP Edition)
- 1958 - '58 Sessions
- 1958 - Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud OST
- 1958 - At Newport
- 1958 - Jazz At the Plaza
- 1958 - Miles & Monk At Newport (with Thelonious Monk)
- 1958 - Miles and Coltrane *** НЕ ПРИСУТСТВУЕТ В РАЗДАЧЕ ВО ИЗБЕЖАНИЕ ПОВТОРОВ (ссылка на альбом под спойлером)
- 1958 - Milestones
- 1958 - Porgy and Bess
- 1959-63 -The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings of Miles Davis & Gil Evans (6 CDs)
- 1959 - Another Tracks of Kind of Blue
- 1959 - Kind Of Blue
- 1959 - Kind of Blue (50th Anniversary Edition) (2 CDs)
- 1959 - Sketches of Spain
- 1959 - Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) (2 CDs)
- 1960 - Free Trade Hall, Manchester (2 CDs)
- 1960 - Green Dolphin Street - Live In Holland
- 1960 - En Concert avec Europe 1 (4 CDs)
- 1960 - Miles Davis/John Coltrane - Copenhagen 1960 (with John Coltrane)
- 1960 - Live in Den Haag
- 1960 - Live In Zurich with John Coltrane
- 1960 - The Complete Live In Stockholm (with John Coltrane & Sonny Stitt) (4 CDs)
- 1961 - Concierto de Aranjuez Live at Carnegie Hall (with Gil Evans)
- 1961 - In Person Vol.1 & 2 (4 CDs)
- 1961 - Someday My Prince Will Come
- 1963 - Quiet Nights (with Gil Evans)
- 2nd Great Quintet (1963-1968)
- 1963-64 - Seven Steps - The Complete Columbia Recordings of 63-64 (7 CDs)
- 1963 - Miles Davis In Europe
- 1963 - Cote Blues
- 1963 - Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival
- 1963 - Miles in St. Louis
- 1963 - Seven Steps to Heaven
- 1964 - Davisiana
- 1964 - The Unissued Japanese Concerts (Tokyo & Kyoto) (2 CDs)
- 1964 - 'Four' and More
- 1964 - Paris, France
- 1964 - Live In Sindelfingen
- 1964 - Miles Davis Quintet at the NY Philharmonic Hall
- 1964 - Miles in Berlin
- 1964 - Miles In Tokyo
- 1964 - My Funny Valentine (Live in NY)
- 1965-68 - Miles Davis Quintet - The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (6 CDs)
- 1965 - E.S.P
- 1965 - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel (8 CDs)
- 1966 - Miles Smiles
- 1967 - Sorcerer
- 1967 - Antwerp Blues
- 1967 - No Blues
- 1967 - DVD-Rip (Audio) - Live in Europe (Karlsruhe)
- 1967 - DVD-Rip (Audio) - Live in Europe (Stockholm)
- 1967 - Live In Europe (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1) (3 CDs)
- 1967 - Nefertiti
- 1967 - Water Babies
- 1968 - Miles in the Sky
- 1969 - Filles De Kilimanjaro
- Electric Miles (1969-1975)
- 1969-70 - Bitches Brew Live (at Newport & Isle of Wight)
- 1969 - In a Silent Way
- 1969 - Live in Rome and Copenhagen (2 CDs)
- 1969 - Live in Paris ("Untitled")
- 1969 - Miles Davis - Festiva de Juan Pins
- 1969 - The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions – (3 CDs)
- 1970 - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
- 1970 - Bitches Brew (2 CDs)
- 1970 - Get Up With It (2 CDs)
- 1970 - Live at Fillmore East (2 CDs)
- 1970 - Live-Evil
- 1970 - More Live at Fillmore East
- 1970 - The Cellar Door Sessions (6 CDs)
- 1970 - The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (4 CDs)
- 1970 - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (5CDs)
- 1971-73 - Another Bitches Brew Live
- 1971 - What I Say (Live in Vienna) Vol.1
- 1971 - What I Say (Live at the Fillmore West) Vol.2
- 1972 - In Concert Live At Philharmonic Hall (2 CDs)
- 1972 - On The Corner
- 1972 - The Complete On The Corner Sessions (6 CDs)
- 1973 - Live in Tokyo at the Shinjuku Kohseinenkin Hall
- 1973 - Live In Vienna
- 1974 - Big Fun (2 CDs)
- 1974 - Dark Magus (2 CDs)
- 1975 - Agharta (2 CDs)
- 1975 - Live at Avery Fisher Hall NY
- 1975 - Pangaea
- 1975 - Black Beauty Live At Fillmore West
- The Late Years (1981-1991)
- 1981 - Miles Davis - Fat Time
- 1981 - The Man With The Horn
- 1981 - Miles! Miles! Miles! (Live in Japan)
- 1982 - We Want Miles
- 1983 - Decoy
- 1983 - Live In Warsaw (2 CDs)
- 1983 - Star People
- 1984 - You are Under Arrest
- 1985 - Aura
- 1986 - Tutu
- 1987 - Music from Siesta (with Marcus Miller)
- 1988-91 - Live Around the world
- 1988 – The Munich Concert (3 CDs)
- 1988 - Perfect Way (Live in Avignon)
- 1989 - Amandla
- 1991 - Doo-Bop
- 1991 - Live At Montreux (with Quincy Jones)
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