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Miles Davis
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Miles Davis grew up in East St. Louis and came to New York in 1944 to study at the Juilliard School. Dizzy Gillespie was his example, but Miles chose a quieter, more restrained tone. He played in Charlie Parker's quintet. He changed jazz several times: with Birth of the Cool (1949), with his quintet with John Coltrane (1955), with Kind of Blue (1959), with his second quintet (1964) and with the electric music of Bitches Brew (1970). He often used a mute, which made his sound vulnerable. He repeatedly chose young musicians who later became bandleaders themselves, such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and John McLaughlin.
Listening
Listening tip. Notice the space between the notes: Miles plays little, and every note counts.
'Round Midnight · Miles Davis, 1956
So What · Miles Davis, 1959
Spanish Key · Miles Davis, 1969
Blue in Green · Miles Davis, 1959Apple Music ↗
Boplicity · Miles Davis, 1949Apple Music ↗
Concierto de Aranjuez · Miles Davis, 1959
Générique · Miles Davis, 1958
Afterglow · Miles Davis, 1987- Israel · Miles Davis, 1949
In a Silent Way · Miles Davis, 1969
Summertime · Miles Davis, 1958
Bags' Groove · Miles Davis, 1954
Discography
Studio albums
- 1951Modern Jazz Trumpets
- 1951The New Sounds
- 1951The New Sounds
- 1952Young Man With a Horn
- 1953Blue Period
- 1953Miles Davis, Vol. 2
- 1953The Compositions of Al Cohn
- 1954Miles Davis With Sonny Rollins
- 1954Vol. 3
- 1955Blue Moods
- 1955Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet / Sextet
- 1956Blue Haze
- 1956Collectors’ Items
- 1956Dig
- 1957Bags’ Groove
- 1957Birth of the Cool
- 1957Miles Ahead
- 1957’Round About Midnight
- 1957Cookin'
- 1958Milestones
- 1958Porgy and Bess
- 1958Relaxin'
- 1959Kind of Blue
- 1959Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
- 1960Sketches of Spain
- 1960Workin'
- 1961Steamin'
- 1963Quiet Nights
- 1963Seven Steps to Heaven
- 1965E.S.P.
- 1967Sorcerer
- 1968Miles in the Sky
- 1968Nefertiti
- 1969Filles de Kilimanjaro
- 1969In a Silent Way
- 1970Bitches Brew
- 1972On the Corner
- 1974Big Fun
- 1974Get Up With It
- 1976Water Babies
- 1981The Man With the Horn
- 1983Star People
- 1984Decoy
- 1985You’re Under Arrest
- 1986Tutu
- 1989Amandla
- 1989Aura
- 1992Doo‐Bop
- 2019Rubberband
In School of Rock
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- Jazz MapNL Map
- Mixtape 2: Youth Cultures 1950-1980NL Reader
- Mixtape 5: Jazz FestivalNL Reader
- Mixtape 9: The InstrumentNL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 3NL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 4NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 2NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Cool Jazz and modal jazz Genre
In 1949 and 1950 Miles Davis recorded with a nonet the sessions that were later called Birth of the Cool, with French horn and tuba alongside the usual horns and arrangements by, among others, Gil Evans.
- Fusion and jazz rock Genre
Miles Davis listened to Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown, and played with electric instruments on In a Silent Way (1969) and, on Bitches Brew (1970), with several drummers at once.
- Third stream Genre
Johnson and Jimmy Giuffre, with Miles Davis as soloist.
- Modal jazz Genre
Miles Davis applied it on Milestones (1958) and on Kind of Blue, recorded in March and April 1959 in the Columbia studio on 30th Street in New York.
- Nouvelle vague Genre
For Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Miles Davis improvised the music with his group in December 1957 while the images were projected.
- Jazz in film Genre
In France, Miles Davis improvised the music for Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.
- Fender Rhodes Technology
In the late 1960s, Miles Davis had his pianists play the Rhodes, and the instrument became a fixture of jazz rock and soul, and later of neo-soul.
See also
- Blue Moods
- Collectors’ Items
- Dig
- Miles Ahead
- Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
- Sketches of Spain
- Seven Steps to Heaven
- Miles in the Sky
- On the Corner
- Tutu
- Cool Jazz and modal jazz
- Bebop
- Hard bop
- Modal jazz
- Fusion and jazz rock
- Jazz in film
- Nouvelle vague
- Third stream
- Fender Rhodes
- Tomasz Stańko
- Weather Report
- Terence Blanchard
- Jean-Luc Ponty
- Nils Petter Molvær