Miles Davis

Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Miles Dewey Davis (1926 - 1991) was one of the major figures of jazz (a word he disliked). As the youngest member of Charlie Parker’s band, he was part of the be-bop revolution that ushered in modern jazz, and, starting with the albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, he was the principal pioneer of jazz-rock, also known as fusion.

His collaboration with arranger Gil Evans produced famous albums like Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain and (after Gershwin) Porgy and Bess.

Some of the musicians who passed through Miles's bands were:

Saxophones: John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Sam Rivers, George Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Dave Liebman, Carlos Garnett.