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-[[File:Miles Davis.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Miles Davis.]]
+[[File:Miles Davis.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Miles Davis.]]
-Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
+'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Some of his notable albums include: '' [[wikipedia:Birth Of The Cool|Birth of the Cool]] (1952), [[wikipedia:Kind Of Blue|Kind of Blue]] (1959), [[wikipedia:Sketches of Spain|Sketches of Spain]] (1959)'' and ''[[wikipedia:Bitches Brew|Bitches Brew]] (1969)''.
-Some of his notable albums include:  [[wikipedia:Birth Of The Cool|Birth of the Cool]] (1952), [[wikipedia:Kind Of Blue|Kind of Blue]] (1959), [[wikipedia:Sketches of Spain|Sketches of Spain]] (1959)  and [[wikipedia:Bitches Brew|Bitches Brew]] (1969).
+Among the musicians who once played in Davis' band were Cannonball Adderley, [[John Coltrane]], [[Bill Evans]], [[Herbie Hancock]] and Sonny Rollins.
-[[image:Sketches of Spain.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sketches of Spain.]]
+==Frank Zappa and Miles Davis==
 Zappa and [[Captain Beefheart]] listened to Miles Davis and Gil Evans' album Sketches of Spain when they were teenagers.<ref>Mike Barnes' biography, ''"Captain Beefheart"'' (Quartet Books, 2000)</ref>
 Zappa claimed to have seen Miles Davis in the early 1960s:
-<blockquote>Q: Do People like Miles Davis know about you and your music?
+<blockquote>'''Q''': '''Do People like Miles Davis know about you and your music?'''
-<blockquote>I remember one time I said to Frank that I was also working with Miles. I don’t remember precisely what he said, but he had a lot of respect for Miles and Miles’ band. <ref>  [http://www.idiotbastard.com/Interviews/SergioAlbonico.htm 2018 Interview ]</ref></blockquote>
+'''Frank Zappa''': ''"Well, I met Miles Davis in 1962<ref>Davis played the [[wikipedia:Black Hawk (nightclub)|Black Hawk]] in 1961. A [https://www.discogs.com/release/1773125-Miles-Davis-In-Person-Friday-And-Saturday-Nights-At-The-Blackhawk-San-Francisco 2 disc set of the concert was released by Columbia] in 1961. Davis played Royce Hall and The It Club in Los Angeles September/October 1963.</ref> in a jazz club in San Francisco called the Black Hawk. I really liked his music and I went up to him and introduced myself to him and he turned his back on me. And so I haven't had anything to do with him or his music since that time."''
-In August 1969 as Zappa was recording his jazz-influenced rock album [[Hot Rats]] on the west coast Davis was recording his rock-influenced jazz album, Bitches Brew, on the East Coast.  Their approach to recording was equally distant.   Zappa, as he explained about a later band, requiring his musicians to play what he had written:
+'''Q''': '''In 1962, though, you hadn't recorded anything'''.
-whereas Davis presented the group with some "musical sketches" for the Bitches Brew pieces and told them they could play anything that came to mind as long as they play off of his chosen chord.  He had not arranged each piece because he was unsure of the direction the album was to take and that what was produced came from an improvisational process: <blockquote> "not some prearranged shit."<ref>Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe, Simon & Schuster 1990</ref></blockquote>
+'''Frank Zappa''': ''"That's okay. He had his chance. I don't treat people that way."''<ref>It Just Might Be Frank, RockBill Vol. 3 No. 29, November 1984</ref></blockquote>
-Miles Davis is alluded to at the end of Zappa's song ''[[Latex Solar Beef]]''.  In series 2 of the TV show [[Miami Vice]] Davis appeared in a guest role in episode 6 as did Zappa in episode 19.
+But [[Sergio Albonico]] later recalled:''"I remember one time I said to Frank that I was also working with Miles. I don’t remember precisely what he said, but he had a lot of respect for Miles and Miles’ band."''<ref>[http://www.idiotbastard.com/Interviews/SergioAlbonico.htm 2018 Interview ]</ref>
 ==Notes==
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 ==External links==
-* [[wikipedia:Miles Davis|Wikipedia article on Miles Davis]]<br>
+* [[wikipedia:Miles Davis]]
 [[Category:Jazz Composers|Davis, Miles]]

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 <blockquote>I remember one time I said to Frank that I was also working with Miles. I don’t remember precisely what he said, but he had a lot of respect for Miles and Miles’ band. <ref>  [http://www.idiotbastard.com/Interviews/SergioAlbonico.htm 2018 Interview ]</ref></blockquote>
-In August 1969 as Zappa was recording his jazz-influenced rock album [[Hot Rats]] on the west coat Davis was recording his rock-influenced jazz album, Bitches Brew, on the East Coast.  Their approach to recording was equally distant.   Zappa, as he explained about a later band, requiring his musicians to play what he had written:
+In August 1969 as Zappa was recording his jazz-influenced rock album [[Hot Rats]] on the west coast Davis was recording his rock-influenced jazz album, Bitches Brew, on the East Coast.  Their approach to recording was equally distant.   Zappa, as he explained about a later band, requiring his musicians to play what he had written:
 <blockquote>I hate to have to act like an umpire or referee and go scream at everybody because they're jamming. I don't pay 200 dollars an hour studio time to have guys go in there and jazz out. If you want to practice, do it at home; don't do it in the studio. The studio is the time to make the record.<ref>[[Little Band We Used To Play In]], Keyboard Magazine, 1980</ref></blockquote>

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 [[File:Miles Davis.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Miles Davis.]]
-'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. During the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as one of the most distinguished and experimental jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. His most classic albums are: ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "[[Sketches of Spain]]" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.
+Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
-==Frank Zappa and Miles Davis==
+Some of his notable albums include:  [[wikipedia:Birth Of The Cool|Birth of the Cool]] (1952), [[wikipedia:Kind Of Blue|Kind of Blue]] (1959), [[wikipedia:Sketches of Spain|Sketches of Spain]] (1959)  and [[wikipedia:Bitches Brew|Bitches Brew]] (1969).
-According to page 95 of Mike Barnes' biography, ''"Captain Beefheart"'' (Quartet Books, 2000) Zappa and [[Captain Beefheart]] used to listen to Miles Davis and Gil Evans' album ''"[[Sketches of Spain]]"'' when they were teenagers. Interviewed by Robert O'Brian for RockBill Magazine (1984) Zappa said about Davis: ''"I really liked his music."'' Zappa went to see Davis playing at the Black Hawk in San Francisco in 1961, but unfortunately the grumpy musician just turned his back to him. Zappa: ''"I haven't had anything to do with him or his music since that time"''.<ref>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/zappa-and-jazz-frank-zappa-by-geoffrey-wills.php</ref>
+[[image:Sketches of Spain.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sketches of Spain.]]
 ==Notes==

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	'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. During the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as one of the most distinguished and experimental jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. His most classic albums are: ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "[[Sketches of Spain]]" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.		'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. During the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as one of the most distinguished and experimental jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. His most classic albums are: ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "[[Sketches of Spain]]" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.

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	'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. During the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as one of the most distinguished and experimental jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. His most classic albums are: ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "[[Sketches of Spain]]" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.		'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. During the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as one of the most distinguished and experimental jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. His most classic albums are: ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "[[Sketches of Spain]]" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.

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 [[File:Miles Davis.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Miles Davis.]]
-'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. During the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as one of the most distinguished and experimental jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. His most classic albums are: ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "Sketches Of Spain" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.
+'''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer. During the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as one of the most distinguished and experimental jazz musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. His most classic albums are: ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "[[Sketches of Spain]]" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.
 ==Frank Zappa and Miles Davis==
-According to page 95 of Mike Barnes' biography, ''"Captain Beefheart"'' (Quartet Books, 2000) Zappa and [[Captain Beefheart]] used to listen to Miles Davis and Gil Evans' album ''"Sketches Of Spain"'' when they were teenagers. Interviewed by Robert O'Brian for RockBill Magazine (1984) Zappa said about Davis: ''"I really liked his music."'' Zappa went to see Davis playing at the Black Hawk in San Francisco in 1961, but unfortunately the grumpy musician just turned his back to him. Zappa: ''"I haven't had anything to do with him or his music since that time"''.<ref>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/zappa-and-jazz-frank-zappa-by-geoffrey-wills.php</ref>
+According to page 95 of Mike Barnes' biography, ''"Captain Beefheart"'' (Quartet Books, 2000) Zappa and [[Captain Beefheart]] used to listen to Miles Davis and Gil Evans' album ''"[[Sketches of Spain]]"'' when they were teenagers. Interviewed by Robert O'Brian for RockBill Magazine (1984) Zappa said about Davis: ''"I really liked his music."'' Zappa went to see Davis playing at the Black Hawk in San Francisco in 1961, but unfortunately the grumpy musician just turned his back to him. Zappa: ''"I haven't had anything to do with him or his music since that time"''.<ref>https://www.allaboutjazz.com/zappa-and-jazz-frank-zappa-by-geoffrey-wills.php</ref>
 Miles Davis is mentioned briefly at the end of Zappa's song ''[[Latex Solar Beef]]''.
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 [[Category:Jazz Composers|Davis, Miles]]
 [[Category:Favorite Artists|Davis, Miles]]
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 Miles Davis is mentioned briefly at the end of Zappa's song ''[[Latex Solar Beef]]''.
-Davis, just like Zappa, once appeared in a guest role on ''[[Miami Vice]]'' (though not together, nor in the same episode).
+Davis, just like Zappa, once appeared in a guest role on ''[[Miami Vice]]'' (though not together, nor in the same episode). [[Sergio Albonico]] who was a photographer for Davis, once told Frank Zappa about this and Zappa told him that he respected Davis and his band tremendously. <ref>http://www.idiotbastard.com/Interviews/SergioAlbonico.htm</ref>
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 '''Miles Dewey Davis III''' (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jazz records. He is most famous for his albums ''"Birth Of The Cool" (1952), "Kind Of Blue" (1959), "Sketches Of Spain" (1959)'' and ''"Bitches Brew" (1969)''.
 According to page 95 of Mike Barnes' biography, ''"Captain Beefheart",'' Quartet Books, 2000 Zappa and [[Captain Beefheart]] used to listen to Miles Davis and Gil Evans' album ''"Sketches Of Spain"'', when they were teenagers.
 Further reading:<br>