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March 6, 2006

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2006: Miles Davis

Herbie Hancock shares an insider's perspective on the legend of Miles Davis
April 22, 2005

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 88) Miles Davis

By Mos Def
December 13, 1969

Miles Davis: The Rolling Stone Interview

Jazz's Picasso puts it in black and white

Recordings and Reviews

Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Box Set

In the DVD that accompanies this reissue, singer Shirley Horn defines what makes Miles Davis' music resonate beyond the jazz world: "He was sexy." Aside from the sexiness in that moody trumpet, Kind of Blue introduced modal jazz — a new, less restrictive method of improvising. There's freedom...

2008 RS: 5of 5 Stars

The Complete On The Corner Sessions

2007

The Cellar Door Sessions 1970

2005

Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings

1996

Doo-Bop

1992

You're Under Arrest

1985

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Biography

Miles Davis played a crucial and inevitably controversial role in every major development in jazz since the mid-'40s, and no other jazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock. Miles Davis was the most widely recognized jazz musician of his era, an outspoken social critic and an arbiter of style - in attitude and fashion - as well as music.

Davis was raised in an upper-middle-class black...

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