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MILES DAVIS     This is my report on Miles Davis that I have scripted for wad class. When I premier(prenominal) started I didnt even have a clue who Miles Davis was. But for the past week I have been operative on this report I have began to realize the amazing animation that this famous musician has lived. So I hope you learn as much as I did on this wonderful trumpeter.     Even in the beginning he was already miles ahead. Its very evident that Miles knew and lived by that oldish axiom if its named, then its outmoded. Miles Dewey Davis was born May 25, 1926 in Alton, Illinois and grew up in East St. Louis. Miles collected records and for his 13th birthday was given his first trumpet. By age 16, Miles was playing professionally and received his first real perceptivity of what playing jazz was interchangeable when Billy Eckstines band was traveling by dint of and needed to replace a sick horn player. At that time, the band employed Diz and Bird and for two weeks Miles soaked it up     Undoubtedly, the fire had been ignited. later high school, Miles was off to study music and enrolled in Juilliard in family 1944. Practicing his ass off all(prenominal) day and feeding his mind any night Miles sound was taking shape. As a sideman, Miles recorded his first recording in New York with singer "Rubberleggs" Williams and later recorded "Now,s The period" & "Ko-Ko" in Parkers quintet.       Miles Davis was known to the general public primarily as a trumpet player. However, in the world of music he had a great deal of influence not only as a innovative bandleader but also as a composer. His music and call was important in the development of improvisational techniques incorporating modes rather than standard chord changes. Miles experiments with average playing reached its apotheosis in 1959 with his recording of Kind Of Blue.     &nb sp    Brought up in the Bebop tradition and taught under the auspice of Bird and others, Miles was now ready to lead. afterwards a few solo records, Miles transformed jazz into its next anatomy with his BIRTH OF THE COOL sessions, which were recorded 1949-50. These sessions took Bebop, with its fast running styled chords, which changed on every beat, to a more modal concept and chords that changed every other measure, like in the tune "Dig". As a experiment, Miles formed a nine piece band, with Mulligan, Evans and Lewis as arrangers and incorporating Gunther Schuller on French Horn.