Miles Davis was born on May 25, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. He grew up in East St.
             Louis. Miles collected records as a kid and for his 13th birthday received his first
             trumpet. By age 16, Miles was playing professionally and received his first real taste of
             After high school, Miles was off to study music and enrolled in Julliard in
             September, 1944. He spent his first month rooming with Charlie Parker. Every night
             he would write down chords on matchbook covers. Miles recorded his first recording in
             New York with singer "Rubberleggs" Williams and later recorded "Now's The Time" and
             "Ko-Ko" in Charlie Parker's quintet. After being soaked in the Bebop tradition and
             taught under the "Bird", Charlie Parker, Miles was now ready to lead on his own. After
             a few solo records, Miles transformed jazz into the "Birth of The Cool Sessions" which
             Miles began to win a national reputation with a series of recordings made In the
             late forties with Gil Evans, a Canadian-born composer-arranger. A band was created
             that included a French horn and a tuba, which gave a unique texture to the total sound.
             Miles never stayed with the same groove so in 1955 he created group at the Newport Jazz
             Festival with "Walkin'," a down-home swinging blues song. By the fifties he was
             leading a combo with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly and was going in every
             direction. In 1959 Miles joined up with Gil Evans and organized a nineteen-piece
             orchestra and produced three masterpieces, "Miles Ahead," "Porgy and Bess," and
             Miles has always attracted large numbers of fans for they admire him of his
             awesome personality and his music. Musicians play close attention for Miles is clearly
             an originator in exploring new paths for other jazzmen to foll
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