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By: Mary Katherine

 * =====Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26,1926 and died September 28,1991. =====
 * He was born in Alton, Illnois and in 1927 his family moved to St. Louis, Illinois.
 * He was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, band leader, and composer.
 * He played the trumpet, flugelhorn, piano, organ, and the vocals.
 * The type of music he played were jazz, hardbop, bebop, cool jazz, modal, fusion, third stream, jazz-funk, and jazz rap.
 * In 1940 he went off to New York City to study music at Julliard.
 * Instead he started playing jazz with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, soon playing trumpet behind the biggest bandleaders of the era.
 * As a bandleader himself in the 1950s-1960s, his influence went to cool jazz.
 * As the turn of the decade in 1950 as Miles led his first small groups, an assocation with Gerry Mulligan and arranger Gil Evans ushered in The Birth of the Cool.
 * ﻿He died at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California because of a stroke, pneumonia, and respiratory failure.
 * Davis' mother, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son. Why?
 * His musical studies began at 13, when his father gave him a trumpet and arranged lessons with local musician Elwood Buchanan.
 * He has 67 studio albums, 53 live albums, 61 compilation albums, 17 box sets, 3 soundtrack albums, and 48 vinyl albums.
 * [[image:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2193453631_4c66c4755d.jpg width="251" height="280" align="right"]] Miles when first started playing music was co-leading a band with a pianist Tadd Dameron in 1949.
 * Miles and Gil Evans teamed up with each other for what became their final collaboration(partner work) Quiet Nights. Who is Gil Evans? You say final collaboration so what about the other work together?

**One of his famous quotes is, "Do not fear mistakes-there are none."**


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