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MILES DAVIS-BIRTH OF THE COOL RADIO JAZZ STATION
created by: JOHN AMES
August 23, 2008

MILES DEWEY DAVIS 111 WAS AN AMERICAN JAZZ TRUMPETER, BANDLEADER, AND COMPOSER. WIDELY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. DAVIS WAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALMOST EVERY MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN JAZZ FROM WORLD WAR 2 TO THE 1990'S: DAVIS PLAYED ON VARIOUS EARLY BEBOP RECORDS AND RECORDED ONE OF THE FIRST "COOL JAZZ" RECORDS; HE WAS PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODAL JAZZ, AND JAZZ FUSION ARISE FROM HIS WORK WITH OTHER MUSICIANS IN THE LATE 1960'S AND EARLY 1970'S; AND HIS FINAL ALBUM BLENDED JAZZ AND RAP. MANY JAZZ MUSICIANS MADE THEIR NAMES IN DAVIS'S GROUPS, INCLUDING PIANISTS BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CHICK COREA, KEITH JARRETT, SAXOPHONISTS JOHN COLTRANE, CANNONBALL ADDERLEY, GEORGE COLEMAN, WAYNE SHORTER, BASE PLAYER PAUL CHAMBERS, DRUMMERS PHILLY JO JONES, AND TONY WILLIAMS. MILES DAVIS WAS BORN ON MAY 26, 1926 AND DIED ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1991.


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2 O'Clock Lab Band 09-25-2009  
8 Legged Monster 09-25-2009  
Abdullah Ibrahim 09-27-2009  
Afro Blues Quintet Plus 1 09-27-2009  
Ahmad Jamal 09-25-2009  


Song Seeds
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Miles Davis 10-09-2008  
Charlie Parker 11-12-2009  
Miles Davis 11-07-2009  
Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott 11-08-2009  
Dizzy Gillespie 11-06-2009  


Thumbed-up Songs
  Song sort Artist Date  
Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott 11-08-2009  
Jeff Hamilton 11-08-2009  
Gerry Mulligan 09-25-2009  
Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron 12-13-2008  
The Jazz Ambassadors 09-27-2009  


Thumbed-down Songs
  Song sort Artist Date  
Les & Larry Elgart 11-14-2009