The group was short-lived but during its brief history recorded a dozen tracks that were originally released as singles (1949–50). Mulligan, Gil Evans, and pianist John Lewis did most of the band’s arrangements, which juxtaposed the flexible, improvisatory nature of bebop with a thickly textured orchestral sound. Johnson, Kenny Clarke, and Lee Konitz, as well as players on French horn and tuba, instruments rarely heard in a jazz context. In the summer of 1948, Davis formed a nonet that included the renowned jazz artists Gerry Mulligan, J.J. The deliberation, pacing, and lyricism in his improvisations are striking. With the occasional exception of multinote flurries, his melodic style was direct and unornamented, based on quarter notes and rich with inflections. Rather than emulate the busy, wailing style of such bebop pioneers as Gillespie, Davis explored the trumpet’s middle register, experimenting with harmonies and rhythms and varying the phrasing of his improvisations. By the early 1950s Davis had turned his limitations into considerable assets. Was Mozart murdered? Was Lady Gaga really born that way? And did the Jefferson Airplane start out as a classical music group? Settle the score with this quiz.ĭavis’s early playing was sometimes tentative and not always fully in tune, but his unique, intimate tone and his fertile musical imagination outweighed his technical shortcomings. Davis and Parker recorded together often during the years 1945–48. Louis area before moving to New York City in 1944 to study at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School)-although he skipped many classes and instead was schooled through jam sessions with masters such as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.
(In later years he often spoke of his comfortable upbringing, sometimes to rebuke critics who assumed that a background of poverty and suffering was common to all great jazz artists.) He began studying trumpet in his early teens fortuitously, in light of his later stylistic development, his first teacher advised him to play without vibrato. Louis, Illinois, where his father was a prosperous dental surgeon.
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Miles Davis, in full Miles Dewey Davis III, (born May 26, 1926, Alton, Illinois, U.S.-died September 28, 1991, Santa Monica, California), American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s.
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