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Miles Davis |
Miles Davis, the 1950s to the 1960s
One of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century, Miles Dewey Davis III (1926 to 1991) was a monumental figure in the history of jazz. At the vanguard of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s, his contributions were profound.
In addition to being regarded as a distinctive and influential stylist on the trumpet, he shaped whole styles and ways of making music through the work of his bands, in which many of the most important jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century made their names.
Jazz writer Nat Hentoff identified the fundamental elements of Davis' style: "spareness, evocative use of space, intense lyricism, and deep fire underneath it all."
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