By the time he was 19, he was recording with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins.
He recorded three albums for the label and opened for Miles Davis on a festival tour.
Keyboard synthesist Joe Zawinul made a huge mark in the late 1960s Miles Davis bands.
Ashley Kahn is the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece.
In one negotiation, Bernstein name-checks Miles Davis in order to telegraph his worth to another man.
He recalled playing San Francisco clubs like the Blackhawk, where Miles Davis famously recorded.
The album features duets with Miles Davis, Sheryl Crow, Paul Young, Brian May, Sting and The Cranberries' Delores O'Riordan.
Sonny learned melody and harmony from Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis was a regular playing partner.
Mr Carr's biography of Miles Davis reveals that a similar fate almost befell that later jazz trumpeter.
And it might have become a footnote to jazz history had it not been noticed by Miles Davis.
Then we jump into the post-Miles Davis era, at an extravagant, high-flying show.
The festival, which takes place on the shores of Lake Geneva, has featured the likes of Miles Davis and Santana.
On his new CD Streams of Expression, Lovano performs three songs arranged by Gil Evans for the Miles Davis Nonet.
In the 1950s, Dave Brubeck was jazz's resident intellectual (Thelonious Monk the eccentric, Charles Mingus the rebel, Miles Davis the movie star).
Easily the most exquisite pianist of the 1960s, Evans redefined the piano trio after departing the Miles Davis Sextet in late 1958.
In 1960, saxophonist John Coltrane, who had recently left the Miles Davis group, invited Tyner to join his new quartet.
The Miles Davis Nonet's subtle harmonic shadings marked the beginnings of what came to be known as the "cool sound" in jazz.
Jazzman Miles Davis, poet Langston Hughes and singer Lena Horne feature prominently.
The siren smells of kettle corn and barbecue waft throughout and compete for business with vendors of African masks and Miles Davis T-shirts.
Does it diminish their music to know that Frank Sinatra could be a lout and that Miles Davis used his fists on women?
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In the tradition of Miles Davis and Art Blakey, Blanchard has selected an ensemble of young proteges to cook up a unique sound.
But it was on Manhattan's 52nd Street that Roach started experimenting with harmony and melody alongside Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
Leonard Bernstein came out and noted his approval at the time, while Miles Davis famously declared that Ornette was all screwed up inside.
By the end of his life in 1991, Miles Davis was widely acknowledged as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
Even after his death in 1970, Hendrix continues to leave his mark on the music world, influencing legends such as George Clinton and Miles Davis.
Not all executives are like Miles Davis or Charlie Parker, and not all businesses can tolerate and remedy errors the way Ford Motor Company did.
The Belgian-born Thielemans has played with Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones and many others.
But that can be like listening to music, to Miles Davis.
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While Larsen is more likely to be studying the intricacies of microbes than Miles Davis, his latest work puts the two of them closer than ever before.
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