Miles Davis Research Paper

Miles Davis was born in Illinois in 1926 into a middle-class household where he was first familiarized with the trumpet at the age of 13 from his father. Davis was a huge symbol of Jazz music and its success by being a trumpeter. Davis learned how to play the trumpet from a family friend that taught music at a local school. One of the aspects that made Davis unique was how he learned to play the trumpet without vibrato used by many famous trumpeters like Louis Armstrong. From there, Davis took his talents to New York City where he made a name for himself playing beautiful jazz music. Davis attended Julliard School and met acquaintances in class including other Jazz artists like Charlie Parker, who played the saxophone. Davis and Parker spent

Davis also released singles of his own work produced into the album Birth of the Cool. However, fame wasn’t easy for Davis. He became addicted to drugs including heroin which caused his performances to be chaotic and jumbled. He overcame his addiction in 1954 and then went on to sign with Columbia Records and formed a band with John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, and Red Garland. Miles Davis was the first jazz artist to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine after his best-selling experiment of jazz and rock fusion, Bitches Brew. In the 1970s, Davis became addicted to cocaine and alcohol which caused to stop making music for almost five years. With the help of his new spouse Cicely Tyson, he became sober and married Tyson in 1981 which inspired him to end his addiction to drugs and alcohol. From then on, Davis tried working with different styles of jazz. He used popular songs from artists like Michael Jackson Cyndi Lauper and construed them on his album You’re Under Arrest. In 1986, Davis released a new album that had samples, drum loops, and synthesizers called Tutu which won him another