May. 26, 2011
One of the great musicians of the 20th C.: Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, composer and band leader - May 26, 1926 - 1991…
Miles innovated the jazz idiom on several occasions, and ultimately created music that far transcended generic limitations. From Birth of the Cool in 1949 to Sketches of Spain in 1960 he already develops the more traditional, acoustic jazz idiom far beyond what any other instrumentalist and arranger could have envisioned. And after that follows the whole electrical, fusion-oriented catalogue…
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