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    • Miles Davis - CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 31: (L-R) Blackbird McKnight, Munyungo Jackson, Nicholas Payton, Gary Thomas and Vince Wilburn Jr. perform during the Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Band event during the 2011 Miles Davis Festival at Martyr's on March 31, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Miles Davis - CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 31: Vince Wilburn Jr. and Brett Batterson attend the Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Band event during the 2011 Miles Davis Festival at Martyr's on March 31, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Miles Davis - CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 31: Nicholas Payton performs during the Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Band event during the 2011 Miles Davis Festival at Martyr's on March 31, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Miles Davis - CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 31: (L-R back row) John Beasley, Darryl Jones, Vince Wilburn Jr., Munyungo Jackson, Blackbird McKnight, Gary Thomas , DJ Logic (L-R front row) Badal Roy, Mino Cinelu and Nicholas Payton attend the Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Band event during the 2011 Miles Davis Festival at Martyr's on March 31, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Miles Davis - CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 31: (L-R) Darryl Jones, DJ Logic, Blackbird McKnight, Mino Cinelu, Nicholas Payton, Vince Wilburn Jr., Gary Thomas, John Beasley, Darryl Jones, Badal Roy and Robert Irving III perform during the Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Band event during the 2011 Miles Davis Festival at Martyr's on March 31, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Miles Davis - CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 30: Erin Davis, Vince Wilburn Jr. and Cheryl Davis pose during a private photo shoot during the 2011 Miles Davis Festival at the Trump International Hotel & Tower on March 30, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
    • Miles Davis - US actor Don Cheadle poses as he visits, on December 11, 2009 at the the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the 'We Want Miles' exhibition spanning American legendary trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991) lifetime from his childhood years in St. Louis, Missouri to a Paris concert shortly before his death.
    • Miles Davis - A Picture taken on October 15, 2009 at the Cite de la Musique in Paris shows (at right) one of US legendary trumpeter Miles Davis' trumpet, presented during 'We want Miles', an exhibition on the 1926-1991 life of Davis from his childhood years in St. Louis to a concert in Paris that he gave shortly before his death. The exhibit runs from October 16, 2009 to January 17, 2009.
    • Miles Davis - A mural depicting muscian Miles Davis looms over the parking lot of Bohemian Caverns, a jazz club where he once played, on July 23, 2010 in Washington.
    • Miles Davis - A mural depicting muscian Miles Davis looms over the parking lot of Bohemian Caverns, a jazz club where he once played, on July 23, 2010 in Washington.
    • Miles Davis - A mural depicting muscian Miles Davis looms over the parking lot of Bohemian Caverns, a jazz club where he once played, on July 23, 2010 in Washington.
    • Miles Davis - LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 06: Erin Davis, son of music legend Miles Davis holds the Miles Davis Tribute headphones at a Monster Cable Products Inc., press event at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Venetian January 6, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company announced the new 'Miles Davis Tribute' high-performance in-ear headphones - the world's first audio hardware product to bear the name and signature of Miles Davis. The USD 500 headphones will also come with the official, 'Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition' boxed set of Davis' album, 'Kind of Blue.' CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow, runs from January 7-10 and is expected to feature 2,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 110,000 attendees.
    • Miles Davis - LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 06: (L-R) Erin Davis, son of music legend Miles Davis, Cheryl Davis, Miles Davis' daughter, and Vince Wilburn, Jr., Davis' nephew, display the Miles Davis Tribute headphones at a Monster Cable Products Inc., press event at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Venetian January 6, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company announced the new 'Miles Davis Tribute' high-performance in-ear headphones - the world's first audio hardware product to bear the name and signature of Miles Davis. The USD 500 headphones will also come with the official, 'Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition' boxed set of Davis' album, 'Kind of Blue.' CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow, runs from January 7-10 and is expected to feature 2,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 110,000 attendees.
    • Miles Davis - LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 06: Erin Davis, son of music legend Miles Davis holds the Miles Davis Tribute headphones at a Monster Cable Products Inc., press event at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Venetian January 6, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company announced the new 'Miles Davis Tribute' high-performance in-ear headphones - the world's first audio hardware product to bear the name and signature of Miles Davis. The USD 500 headphones will also come with the official, 'Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition' boxed set of Davis' album, 'Kind of Blue.' CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow, runs from January 7-10 and is expected to feature 2,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 110,000 attendees.
    • Miles Davis - LAS VEGAS - JANUARY 06: (L-R) Monster Cable Products Inc., founder Noel Lee, Erin Davis, son of music legend Miles Davis, Cheryl Davis, Miles Davis' daughter, and Vince Wilburn, Jr., Davis' nephew, appear at a press event at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Venetian January 6, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company announced the new 'Miles Davis Tribute' high-performance in-ear headphones - the world's first audio hardware product to bear the name and signature of Miles Davis. The USD 500 headphones will also come with the official, 'Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition' boxed set of Davis' album, 'Kind of Blue.' CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology tradeshow, runs from January 7-10 and is expected to feature 2,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 110,000 attendees.
    • Miles Davis - Legendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb performs during a rehearsal in Madrid, on November 6, 2009. The 26th edition of the Madrid Jazz Festival celebrates the 50th anniversaty of the album 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, in which Jimmy Cobb took part.
    • Miles Davis - Legendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb performs during a rehearsal in Madrid, on November 6, 2009. The 26th edition of the Madrid Jazz Festival celebrates the 50th anniversaty of the album 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, in which Jimmy Cobb took part.
    • Miles Davis - Legendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb performs during a rehearsal in Madrid, on November 6, 2009. The 26th edition of the Madrid Jazz Festival celebrates the 50th anniversaty of the album 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, in which Jimmy Cobb took part.
    • Miles Davis - Legendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb performs during a rehearsal in Madrid, on November 6, 2009. The 26th edition of the Madrid Jazz Festival celebrates the 50th anniversaty of the album 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, in which Jimmy Cobb took part.
    • Miles Davis - Legendary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb (R) looks at trumpet player Wallace Roney during a rehearsal in Madrid, on November 6, 2009. The 26th edition of the Madrid Jazz Festival celebrates the 50th anniversaty of the album 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, in which Jimmy Cobb took part.
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    Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine his career is to examine the history of jazz from the mid-'40s to the early ...more
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