Miles Davis
Miles Davis: The music’s right but the approach is wrong.
Music listeners everywhere have heard at least a smidgen of the music from “the prince of darkness”. Although Miles Davis, dubbed the “most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century” by Rolling Stone Magazine and known as the birth of cool, attitudes and behaviors we never truly kind and the man was notoriously known as a jerk, his music was of great importance to the jazz culture as a whole. Without bashing Miles’ credibility or defacing the legend, this paper is being used to chroniclize the music produced synonymously with his behavior as “a badass”. Miles was the kind of person who didn’t care what anyone thought, he always went for music first and he never went for what was easy. Though, Davis is labeled as genius, he ran over people as if they didn’t matter. From the multitude of albums miles released through the years, from his hugely successful album “Kind of Blue”, to “Bitches Brew”, until his last album in 1976 “Water Babies”, Miles continued to create new and intriguing music that constantly evolved his style to more higher and modern accession. He was one of the foremost pioneers in the inventions of cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz, and fusion. Miles was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois to Dr. Miles Henry Davis, a successful dentist, and Cleota Mae Davis. Miles developed an interest in music at the age of 13 when his father bought him a trumpet. Miles began his musical study with an accomplished local musician named Elwood Buchanan. In Davis’ beginnings, Buchanan discouraged Davis from using vibrato in his music, which was a characteristic that Davis carried throughout the entirety of his career. Funny enough, his mother, Cleota Mae Davis, played blues piano but kept it hidden from him. Miles succeeded so well with trumpet playing that he was accepted into the Juilliard School of Music to study classical music. However,
Music listeners everywhere have heard at least a smidgen of the music from “the prince of darkness”. Although Miles Davis, dubbed the “most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century” by Rolling Stone Magazine and known as the birth of cool, attitudes and behaviors we never truly kind and the man was notoriously known as a jerk, his music was of great importance to the jazz culture as a whole. Without bashing Miles’ credibility or defacing the legend, this paper is being used to chroniclize the music produced synonymously with his behavior as “a badass”. Miles was the kind of person who didn’t care what anyone thought, he always went for music first and he never went for what was easy. Though, Davis is labeled as genius, he ran over people as if they didn’t matter. From the multitude of albums miles released through the years, from his hugely successful album “Kind of Blue”, to “Bitches Brew”, until his last album in 1976 “Water Babies”, Miles continued to create new and intriguing music that constantly evolved his style to more higher and modern accession. He was one of the foremost pioneers in the inventions of cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz, and fusion. Miles was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois to Dr. Miles Henry Davis, a successful dentist, and Cleota Mae Davis. Miles developed an interest in music at the age of 13 when his father bought him a trumpet. Miles began his musical study with an accomplished local musician named Elwood Buchanan. In Davis’ beginnings, Buchanan discouraged Davis from using vibrato in his music, which was a characteristic that Davis carried throughout the entirety of his career. Funny enough, his mother, Cleota Mae Davis, played blues piano but kept it hidden from him. Miles succeeded so well with trumpet playing that he was accepted into the Juilliard School of Music to study classical music. However,