Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

( based in Florida ), Patti Brooks KGMI ( based in the Pacific Northwest ), Free Talk Live ( based in New Hampshire ), Penn Jillette ( based in Las Vegas ), Jay Severin ( based in Boston, Massachusetts ), and Mark Davis ( based in Ft. Worth and Dallas, Texas ) have also achieved some success.

Some left and achieved national recognition, such as Ike & Tina Turner and the jazz great Miles Davis, who was born in nearby Alton and grew up in East St. Louis.

Such balance has been achieved in leading contemporary projects such as Vauban, Freiburg and Village Homes, Davis.

Though jazz rap had achieved little mainstream success, jazz legend Miles Davis ' final album ( released posthumously in 1992 ), Doo-Bop, was based around hip hop beats and collaborations with producer Easy Mo Bee.

The victory was achieved with Reardon using his old cue with which he had won his world titles, having been encouraged to rebuild it, by Steve Davis.

In 1963, Davis achieved her biggest success with country pop crossover hit " The End of the World ".

Davis achieved one other country-pop hit with the Carole King-penned " I Can't Stay Mad At You ", which peaked at No. 7 on the pop charts and No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart in 1963.

Davis only achieved two other major country hits the rest of the decade, " Fuel to the Flame " ( written by Dolly Parton, whom Davis paid tribute to with an album called Skeeter Sings Dolly in 1972 ), and " There's a Fool Born Every Minute ".

He achieved another success in Hell's House ( 1932 ) co-starring then newcomer Bette Davis.

Having seen the great success that the home-and-away format had achieved in Davis Cup, the format for the Fed Cup was changed in 1995 so that women, as well as men, could play for their country in their country.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos in arco ( bowed ) style, though he was not the first player to do this.

Davis was a guitar playing member of the 1970s glam rock band Mud, who achieved the biggest selling Number One record of 1974 in the United Kingdom, with their song " Tiger Feet ".

The 2003 Yards Simpson rushed for is still the 14 game record ( Eric Dickerson, Barry Sanders and Terrell Davis achieved their marks in 16 games ).

From the late 1840s to 1890 it achieved huge popularity in the United States, where it was promoted by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis.

The Marauders once again achieved the # 1 national soccer ranking in 2008 with a record of 27-1-1 before falling to their arch-rival Davis High School in PK's in the CIF sac-joaquin section semi-finals.

Cameron beat his closest rival David Davis by a margin of more than two to one, taking 134, 446 votes to 64, 398, and announced his intention to reform and realign the Conservative Party in a manner similar to that achieved by the Labour Party in opposition under Tony Blair.

Two of their other children achieved prominence, Evarts Boutell as an American historian at Columbia and Jerome Davis Greene as a foundation administrator, banker, and secretary of the Corporation of Harvard University.

Before it was sold, in the hands of Ted Davis, it achieved with a Black Lightning engine.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

The basic search procedure was proposed in two seminal papers in the early 60s ( see references below ) and is now commonly referred to as the Davis – Putnam – Logemann – Loveland algorithm (" DPLL " or " DLL ").

There, she met Emily Davis, the early feminist and future co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge.

By early 1836, Davis had purchased 16 slaves.

Though Davis remained in bed, he was stable for the next two weeks, but took a turn for the worse in early December.

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.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Davis recorded a series of albums with Gil Evans, often playing flugelhorn as well as trumpet.

Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams.

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).

As befits its roots in the early chemical industry of the region the Tech had pioneered Chemical Engineering as an academic subject in Britain, indeed the lectures by George E. Davis in 1888 were highly influential in defining the discipline.

An early talkie movie remake followed, in 1932, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, with Bette Davis in a supporting role.

Weeks later, in reference to Korn's early albums, Davis stated in an interview with The Pulse of Radio that Welch had not contributed to writing material because of his drug usage.

Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records, whose executive Clive Davis was impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album.

Davis places Lafitte's brother Pierre in Saint-Domingue in the late 1790s and early 19th century.

However, this story is false and probably due to the discovery of jeans made of brown cotton ducks, which was one of the early materials used by Davis and Strauss after 1873.

After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful.

Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as " Betty ", was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Augusta " Ruthie " ( née Favor ) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney ; her sister, Barbara " Bobby ", was born October 25, 1909.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Davis spent the early months of 1942 selling war bonds.

In early 1963 while Raymond Burr was recovering from surgery, Davis guest starred in the first of four episodes of Perry Mason, with Burr doing only cameo roles.

In the early 1970s, Davis was invited to appear in New York, in a stage presentation, Great Ladies of the American Cinema.

John Springer, who had arranged her speaking tours of the early 1970s, wrote that despite the accomplishments of many of her contemporaries, Davis was " the star of the thirties and into the forties ", achieving notability for the variety of her characterizations and her ability to assert herself, even when her material was mediocre.