Music1944–1991
Miles Davis
Alton, Illinois trumpeter who reinvented jazz at least five times — from bebop to cool jazz to hard bop to fusion — making him the most restless and influential figure in the genre's history.
Origin
Alton, Illinois
Genre
Jazz
The Cultural Record
Discography
Modern Jazz Trumpets1951
Miles Davis With Sonny Rollins1954
Miles Davis, Vol. 21953
Everything’s Beautiful2016
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Doo‐Bop1992
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