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Dewey Davis 1926-1991

Miles Davis
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Miles Davis 1967?
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Miles Davis
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Miles Davis
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Miles Davis in 1958.
On the fashion front,
“I got my looks from my mother
and also my love of clothes and sense of style,”
he wrote.
Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos
The Ensembles of Miles Davis Epitomized Cool
By MICHAEL J. AGOVINO
NYT MARCH 11, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/fashion/mens-style/miles-davis-style-icon.html

Miles Davis
by Anton Corbijn
1985
Collectie Groninger Museum
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Miles Dewey Davis 1926-1991
trumpeter
and composer
whose haunting tone
and ever-changing style
made him an elusive
touchstone of jazz
for
four decades
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0525.html
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/miles-davis
https://www.npr.org/artists/15368370/miles-davis
http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/miles_styles.html
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_davis_miles.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/mulligan/gm-miles.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/miles-davis
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0525.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/
arts/music/lee-konitz-dead-coronavirus.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/01/
wallace-roney-us-jazz-trumpeter-dies-aged-59-from-coronavirus
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/
764813434/miles-davis-first-music-video
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/
717579612/more-than-kind-of-blue-in-1959-a-few-albums-changed-jazz-forever
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/
obituaries/reggie-lucas.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/23/
503034744/grab-a-seat-in-the-studio-with-the-miles-davis-quintet
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/
arts/music/new-miles-davis-boxed-set-features-his-quintet-at-its-peak.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/06/
484808335/behind-the-black-power-goddess-betty-davis-early-demos-released
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/02/
472689554/don-cheadles-miles-davis-the-latest-badass-black-man-on-screen
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/26/
471903220/what-does-genius-look-like
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/
movies/don-cheadle-on-becoming-miles-davis.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/26/
471892355/6-miles-davis-albums-that-changed-music
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/
fashion/mens-style/miles-davis-style-icon.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/16/
miles-davis-voted-greatest-jazz-artist-of-all-time
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/16/
miles-davis-at-newport-1955-1975-review-bootleg-series-vol-4
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/26/
409719330/songs-we-love-miles-davis-quintet-gingerbread-boy-live-at-newport
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/09/
273159153/how-a-stressful-night-for-miles-davis-spawned-two-classic-albums
http://www.npr.org/2000/01/24/
1069554/kind-of-blue - Feb 23, 2012
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/17/
142456771/miles-davis-great-often-bizarre-1967-quintet
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/sep/28/
miles-davis-20-years
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/
4555394/miles-davis-sketches-of-spain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/10/
miles-davis-paris-us-segregation
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jan/19/jazz.shopping
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/may/25/jazz
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/dec/23/jazz.shopping3
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0525.html - September
29, 1991
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1960-1969/Story/0,6051,105517,00.html
-1960
April 19 1960
Davis and Dizzy
compared
From The Guardian archive
April 19 1960
The Guardian
Miles Davis is one of the most advanced innovators in modern jazz: the same
was said of Dizzy Gillespie fifteen years ago. Two recent releases afford an
interesting comparison between them. Davis's work (Fontana TFL 5072) does not
seem as far out of the normal pattern as Gillespie's at the time, but the ear
has now grown more accustomed to accepting change.
The first sound of Gillespie's brittle and angular flights, apparently in
defiance of the chord sequence behind them, struck a world used to the bland
harmonising of "traditional" and swing bands.
The reaction was meat and drink to Gillespie. His music, brash and extrovert,
has always reflected its creator. The more controversy he could stir with his
melodic and rhythmic juggling, the more intricate his experiments became. At one
stage it became a point of principle with him that no other musician should be
able to follow his circumnavigation of any tune. (He and Thelonious Monk used to
map fantastic chord progressions which they set about if any other player came
to sit with them, leaving him adrift wondering where the tune went.)
The questing spirit remains. His latest record (H.M.V. CLP 1318) shows he is
concerning himself with leavening what he regards as the rhythmic dough of jazz.
His fingers press here and there, and the result is a more digestible offering.
In places he has overdone it slightly and we have to make do with puff pastry
where we expected bread, but that is to be expected from experiment.
Davis also concerns himself with rhythmic effect, but in another way. His
preoccupation is mainly with the pattern of the melodic instruments. He is as
fond of riffs as any rock'n'roller, though with a little more sensitivity. Where
the rock man will bash his way up the chord from tonic to dominant and back,
apparently to eternity, Davis plays nervously with repeated semitone figures,
different for each instrument and constantly changing in accent and rhythm. The
effect is less unsettling than it may sound, for Davis's bland, unifying trumpet
knits it together admirably.
There could not be a greater contrast between Davis's and Gillespie's approach.
Where Gillespie looked his audience over, laughed at it and defied it to
understand what he was doing, Davis seems unaware that he has an audience. His
effects are aimed at himself and at those who play with him. He never laughs;
nor, for that matter, does he cry. The general aspect of his music is one of
inquiring melancholy. His work repays study.
Harold Jackson
From The Guardian
archive > April 19 1960 > Davis and Dizzy compared,
G,
Republished 19.4.2007,
p.
32,
http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2007/04/19/pages/ber32.shtml
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