Davis, for all his talent and success, was a complex, and at times, combative person. Much of this had to do with the racial atmosphere he lived in at the peak of his fame. The s were not an easy time for black people, and celebrities weren't immune to prejudice. One infamous incident happened outside of the Birdland jazz club on Broadway in August Between sets, Miles had gone outside to smoke a cigarette when he was told by a white police officer to leave.
When Davis refused, he was beaten and arrested. Davis would say that this "changed my whole life and my whole attitude again, made me bitter and cynical again when I was really starting to feel good about the things that had changed in this country. Nevertheless, it seemed as if he was always at the forefront of any new musical style, which can be seen in his album Bitches Brew , which blew the doors open on the burgeoning fusion genre, and revolutionized the possibilities of the trumpet.
Dec 12, PM. Ozzie Osborn, is the prince of darkness,. Dec 6, AM. Loved this question. As a fan,I knew the answer. Learn something new every day. Nov 18, PM. Andy the educated troglodyte. Gery Tillmanns, Sharon gave Ozzy a pair of bunny slippers for his birthday Mar 23, AM. Mar 13, AM. Humberto Carrasco. Jan 31, PM. Check out Miles Davis Tribute Band Jan 15, PM. Saw him play a couple of times.
I will always cherish the experience. Jan 13, PM. It is striking that Davis fell so completely under Gillespie and Parker 's spell, since his own slower and less flashy style never really compared to theirs. But bebop was the new sound of the day, and the young trumpeter was bound to follow it.
Shortly after his arrival in Manhattan, he was playing in clubs with Parker , and by he had abandoned his academic studies for a full-time career as a jazz musician, initially joining Benny Carter 's band and making his first recordings as a sideman. He played with Eckstine in and was a member of Parker 's group in , making his recording debut as a leader on a session that featured Parker , pianist John Lewis , bassist Nelson Boyd , and drummer Max Roach.
This was an isolated date, however, and Davis spent most of his time playing and recording behind Parker. But in the summer of , he organized a nine-piece band with an unusual horn section.
In addition to himself, it featured an alto saxophone, a baritone saxophone, a trombone, a French horn, and a tuba. Earning a contract with Capitol Records, the band went into the studio in January for the first of three sessions and produced 12 tracks that attracted little attention at first. Johnson , and Kenny Clarke , and it had a profound influence on the development of the cool jazz style on the West Coast.
Davis , meanwhile, had moved on to co-leading a band with pianist Tadd Dameron in , and the group took him out of the country for an appearance at the Paris Jazz Festival in May.
But the trumpeter's progress was impeded by an addiction to heroin that plagued him in the early '50s. His performances and recordings became more haphazard, but in January he began a long series of recordings for the Prestige label that became his main recording outlet for the next several years. He managed to kick his habit by the middle of the decade, and he made a strong impression playing "'Round Midnight" at the Newport Jazz Festival in July , a performance that led major-label Columbia to sign him.
The prestigious contract allowed him to put together a permanent band, and he organized a quintet featuring saxophonist John Coltrane , pianist Red Garland , bassist Paul Chambers , and drummer Philly Joe Jones , who began recording his Columbia debut, 'Round About Midnight , in October.
As it happened, however, he had a remaining five albums on his Prestige contract, and over the next year he was forced to alternate his Columbia sessions with sessions for Prestige to fulfill this previous commitment.
Released in , the album was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, intended to honor recordings made before the Grammy Awards were instituted in In December , Davis returned to Paris, where he improvised the background music for the film L'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud. Back in the sextet, Davis began to experiment with modal playing, basing his improvisations on scales rather than chord changes. This led to his next band recording, Kind of Blue , in March and April , an album that became a landmark in modern jazz and the most popular album of Davis ' career, eventually selling over two million copies, a phenomenal success for a jazz record.
In sessions held in November and March , Davis again followed his pattern of alternating band releases and collaborations with Gil Evans , recording Sketches of Spain , containing traditional Spanish music and original compositions in that style. By the time Davis returned to the studio to make his next band album in March , Adderley had departed, Wynton Kelly had replaced Bill Evans at the piano, and John Coltrane had left to begin his successful solo career, being replaced by saxophonist Hank Mobley following the brief tenure of Sonny Stitt.
The following month, Davis recorded another live show, as he and his band were joined by an orchestra led by Gil Evans at Carnegie Hall in May. Davis and Evans teamed up again in for what became their final collaboration, Quiet Nights.
Quiet Nights was preceded into the marketplace by Davis ' next band effort, Seven Steps to Heaven , recorded in the spring of with an entirely new lineup consisting of saxophonist George Coleman , pianist Victor Feldman , bassist Ron Carter , and drummer Frank Butler.
The album found Davis making a transition to his next great group, of which Carter , Hancock , and Williams would be members. The quintet followed with two live albums, Miles Davis in Europe , recorded in July , which made the pop charts and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Small Group or Soloist with Small Group, and My Funny Valentine , recorded in February and released in , when it reached the pop charts.
By September , the final member of the classic Miles Davis Quintet of the '60s was in place with the addition of saxophonist Wayne Shorter to the team of Davis , Carter , Hancock , and Williams. While continuing to play standards in concert, this unit embarked on a series of albums of original compositions contributed by the bandmembers themselves, starting in January with E. By the time of Miles in the Sky , the group had begun to turn to electric instruments, presaging Davis ' next stylistic turn.
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