* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Hewitt played only Davis Cup matches for the remainder of the year, recording five-set wins over Roger Federer and Juan Carlos Ferrero in the semifinals and final respectively, as Australia went on to win the Davis Cup.

In these early years, recording sessions where Davis was the leader were the exception rather than the rule ; his next date as leader would not come until 1947.

The most important Prestige recordings of this period ( Dig, Blue Haze, Bags ' Groove, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, and Walkin ') originated mostly from recording sessions in 1951 and 1954, after Davis ' recovery from his addiction.

Before leaving Prestige, however, Davis had to fulfill his obligations during two days of recording sessions in 1956.

Almost immediately after the recording of Milestones, Davis fired Garland and, shortly afterward, Jones, again for behavioral problems ; he replaced them with Bill Evans — a young white pianist with a strong classical background — and drummer Jimmy Cobb.

" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.

The trumpet Davis used on the recording is currently displayed in the music building on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

After finishing a 27 minute recording for the armed services, Davis took a break outside the club.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

Running back Kenneth Davis rushed for 391 yards and 6 touchdowns, while also recording 21 receptions for 95 yards.

On July 18, 2012, Jonathan Davis told Billboard. com that Korn was getting ready to start recording their eleventh studio album, which will be released independently.

Prominent Berlioz conductor Colin Davis had already been in the process of recording much of Berlioz's music on the LSO Live label, and has continued this project to this date with a L ' enfance du Christ recording issued in 2007.

Uncle Tupelo was inspired by bands such as Jason & the Scorchers and The Minutemen, influencing the recording of Wilco's A. M .. Tweedy and O ' Rourke enjoyed free jazz artists such as Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Derek Bailey ; they also listen to mainstream jazz by artists such as Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

Gordon also appeared on the debut album by Herbie Hancock-by the mid 1960s, all four of the younger members of the Miles Davis quintet ( Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams ) were recording for the label, and Hancock and Shorter in particular produced a succession of superb albums in a mix of styles.

But it was during the recording of this album in New York that Miles Davis came into the studio while I was singing, stood behind me and started playing.

Louisiana singer / composer Jimmie Davis began recording for Decca the same year, joined by western vocalists Jimmy Wakely and Roy Rogers in 1940.

* March 2 – The first of two recording sessions for the extremely influential Miles Davis album Kind of Blue takes place.

* November 26-Charlie Parker makes his first recording as a lead player, also featuring Miles Davis.

Davis talked Sly into writing and recording a hit record, and he and the band reluctantly provided the single " Dance to the Music ".

It was also the basis for another movie version, Satan Met a Lady ( 1936 ) starring Bette Davis.

After unsuccessfully attempting to turn the business into a software company selling an enterprise version of the search software, Davis concentrated on building the company into an advertising-supported web portal.

Davis created a version that removes the shakiness of the camera, permitting the creature to be seen from a more stable perspective.

Davis has produced a second stabilized version incorporating enlargements of specific elements that he believes are significant.

Davis and Panzer were unhappy with Peckinpah's version, which included a grossly distorted opening sequence of two characters making love.

* Sweeney Todd ( 2006 ), a BBC television drama version with a screenplay written by Joshua St Johnston and starring Ray Winstone in the title role and Essie Davis as Mrs Lovett.

Bette Davis supported Christina's version, saying that Christina could not have made it up ( Davis, while still alive, would later become the target of her own daughter B. D. Hyman's tell-all in 1985, My Mother's Keeper ).

Davis ' version gave the Seneca Falls meeting in 1848 a minor role, equivalent to other local meetings that had been held by women's groups in the late 1840s.

Davis was also offered a role in a film version of the Virginia Kellogg prison drama Women Without Men.

Lillian Hellman wrote the screenplay for a 1941 film version starring Bette Davis.

The 1941 film version was directed by William Wyler and starred Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and Teresa Wright.

* The 1984 film version directed by David Lean, and starring Judy Davis, Victor Bannerjee, James Fox, Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness, won two Oscars and numerous other awards.

Some of the collaborative cues by Davis and Juno Reactor are extensions of material by Juno Reactor ; for example, a version of " Komit " featuring Davis ' strings is used during a flying sequence, and " Burly Brawl " is essentially a combination of Davis ' unused " Multiple Replication " and a piece similar to Juno Reactor's " Masters of the Universe ".

He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius ( with Charles Laughton ); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess ( played by Bette Davis ) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison ; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe ( with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor ).

This version of Rollins Band had some of the most overt jazz leanings of the band's history: Gibbs had begun his career with the jazz fusion group of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and worked with Sonny Sharrock on albums like 1987's Seize The Rainbow, which along with Rollins ' obsession with the late ' 60s / early ' 70s era of iconic trumpeter Miles Davis, shaped this version of the band's music.

Princeton Review placed UC Davis tenth in the nation in the 2009 version of its annual ranking of faculty diversity among American law schools.

David Learner operated his body on television, having previously played and voiced the part for the stage version, and Warwick Davis wore the Marvin costume for the feature film.

A recorded version conducted by Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins has also received good reviews.

The album ended with a version of The Spencer Davis Group song " Gimme Some Loving ", which became a minor hit.

In 2009, Audible. com produced an audio version of Ironweed, narrated by Jonathan Davis as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks.

The 1960s version of the group included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and for a brief stint, Norman Fell.