nds led by Benny Carter and Billy Eckstine (Dewey pp).
             By 1948, Davis was leading his own bop groups and participating in an
             experimental workshop centered on the arranger Gil Evans, which together
             with Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, and Johnny Carisi culminated in a series
             of nonet recordings for Capitol under Davis' name and later collected and
             reissued as "Birth of the Cool" (Dewey pp). "This music gave impetus to
             the West Coast or cool jazz period, and in retrospect, it is apparent Miles
             began doing what he did best - creating a style and then abandoning it for
             In 1949 Davis was performing with Sonny Rollins, Art Bakey and Tadd
             Dameron when heroin addiction interrupted his public career from mid-1949-
             1953, and although he continued to record with famous bop musicians, such
             as Parker, Rollins, Blakey, J.J. Johnson, Horace Silver, and member of the
             Modern Jazz Quartet, for the most part he work in clubs infrequently and
             with inferior accompanists until 1954 (Dewey pp). Davis appeared
             informally at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival and his sensational
             improvisations there brought him widespread publicity and sufficient
             engagements to "establish a quintet (1955-1957) with Red Garland, Paul
             Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and John Coltrane, who in 1956 was joined and
             later replaced by Rollins" (Dewey pp). Many feel that this is where Miles
             moved from being important to being great (Smith pp). In May 1957 Davis
             made the first of several remarkable solo recordings against unusual jazz
             orchestrations by Gil Evans and in the autumn organized a quintet which
             joined by Cannonball Adderley, however proved short-lived (Dewey pp). That
             same year Davis wrote and recorded music in Paris for Louis Malle's film
             Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (Dewey pp).
             When Davis returned to the United States he re-formed his original
             quintet of 1955 with Adderley as a sixth member and for the next five years
             ...