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Miles Davis American musician and composer Miles Davis, 1969.

Miles Davis

American musician
Also known as: Miles Dewey Davis III
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Miles Davis was an American jazz musician and one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s to the end of the 20th century. A titan of modern jazz music, Davis was an outstanding trumpeter known for his cool, intimate, luminous playing and a visionary bandleader and composer who changed the direction of jazz several times throughout his career. He recorded best-selling albums, such as the seminal Kind of Blue (1959) and...

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