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Miles Davis
American musician
Also known as: Miles Dewey Davis III
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Arts & Culture
- In full:
- Miles Dewey Davis III
- Died:
- September 28, 1991, Santa Monica, California (aged 65)
- Notable Family Members:
- spouse Cicely Tyson
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Apr. 4, 2024, 3:15 AM ET (MSN)
Alton city council votes to make Miles Davis' birth home a city landmark
Miles Davis (born May 26, 1926, Alton, Illinois, U.S.—died September 28, 1991, Santa Monica, California) was an 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. Davis grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois, where his father was a prosperous dental surgeon. (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 ...(100 of 1214 words)