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Miles Davis

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Born in:Alton, Illinois,
United States of America
Year of Birth:1926
Year of death:1991

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1955–1956; photograph by Tom Palumbo
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 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 roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
Born into a upper-middle-class family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis... more

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