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The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.
* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
* 1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer ( Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report )
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.
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.
Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.
Jazz innovator Miles Davis recorded and performed with musicians like Khalil Balakrishna, Bihari Sharma, and Badal Roy in his post-1968 electric ensembles.
Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and other jazz musicians, began to cite Brown as a major influence on their own styles.
Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.
Guitarists such as Pat Martino, Al Di Meola, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, John Scofield and Mike Stern ( the latter two both alumni of the Miles Davis band ) fashioned a new language for the guitar which introduced jazz to a new generation of fans.
* Miles, J. H., Davis, J. J., Ferguson-Roberts, S. E., and Giles, R. G. ( 2001 ).
The alternate mix was remastered by legendary sound engineer Steve Hoffman, who is best-known for his meticulousness in remastering high quality audiophile back catalogue recordings of artists such as Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell ( Hoffman gained international prominence for his classic work on gold-plated CDs for the DCC label ).
* 1926 – Miles Davis, American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer ( Miles Davis Quintet ) ( d. 1991 )
* 1923 – Red Garland, American pianist ( Miles Davis Quintet ) ( d. 1984 )
Miles Dewey Davis III ( May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991 ) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.
Miles Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.
Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois.
His father, Miles Henry Davis, was a dentist.
Charlie Parker, Tommy Potter, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Max Roach, August 1947
Coleman Hawkins and Miles Davis, ca.
He finally got the chance to record as a leader in 1946, with an occasional group called the Miles Davis Sextet plus Earl Coleman and Ann Hathaway — one of the rare occasions when Davis, by then a member of the groundbreaking Charlie Parker Quintet, can be heard accompanying singers.

Miles and covered
* Dave Brubeck dedicated " The Duke " ( 1954 ) to Ellington and it became a standard covered by others, both during Ellington's lifetime ( such as by Miles Davis on Miles Ahead, 1957 ) and posthumously ( such as George Shearing on I Hear a Rhapsody: Live at the Blue Note, 1992 ).
In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.
Joan Osborne covered Beefheart's "( His ) Eyes are a Blue Million Miles ", which appears on Early Recordings.
Several years later, in 1990, a then up-and-coming band named the Goo Goo Dolls covered " A Million Miles Away " on their Hold Me Up album.
The phenomenon also appears in " Canción del fuego fatuo " (' Song of the will-o '- the-wisp ') in Manuel de Falla's ballet El amor brujo, later covered by Miles Davis as " Will-O '- The-Wisp " on Sketches Of Spain.
Miles per hour is an imperial unit of speed expressing the number of statute miles covered in one hour.
Miles Marshall Lewis comments that 1990s neo soul " owed its raison d ' être to ' 70s soul superstars like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder ", adding that " in concert, Erykah Badu and D ' Angelo regularly covered Chaka Khan, the Ohio Players, and Al Green, to make the lineage crystal clear.
" The band covered 1960s hits like Donovan's " Sunshine Superman " and The Byrds ' " Eight Miles High " early in its career.
* In November 1963, New Zealander Johnny Devlin ( with Bee Gees on backing vocals ) released the single " Stomp The Tumbarumba ", a song covered later by, among others, the Australian rock band Hoodoo Gurus ( see " Come Anytime " and " 1000 Miles Away ").
In addition to being recorded several times by Motown artists, the song has been covered by a range of musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival, who recorded an eleven-minute version for their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory, and has been used twice in television commercials – each time using session musicians recreating the style of the Marvin Gaye version: the 1985 Levi's commercial, " Launderette ", featuring male model Nick Kamen, and the 1986 California raisins promotion with Buddy Miles as the singer for the clay animation group The California Raisins.
With the redistribution of estates after the Norman Conquest more than two-fifths of the county fell into the hands of the church ; the possessions of the crown covered one-fifth ; while among the chief lay proprietors were Edward of Salisbury, William, Count of Eu, Ralf de Mortimer, Aubrey de Vere II, Robert Fitzgerald, Miles Crispin, Robert d ' Oily and Osbern Giffard.
However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Rowland S. Howard, Miles Kane, Vanilla Fudge, Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Entombed, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Hooverphonic, Anita Lane, Megadeth, Beck, The Tubes, Thin White Rope and Slowdive.
* The English translation of " Canción del fuego fatuo " (' Song of the will-o '- the-wisp ') on Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, later covered by Miles Davis as " Will-O '- The-Wisp " on Sketches Of Spain.
The song is one of Sly & the Family Stone's signature songs, and has been covered by a number of acts, including Diana Ross & the Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Commodores, Miles Davis ( during the Jack Johnson sessions ), The Meters, Prince, The Budos Band, Maceo Parker and others.
In 1984, D. Train had its only Billboard Hot 100 entry with " Something's on Your Mind ," which climbed to # 79 and was later covered by Miles Davis on his album You're Under Arrest.
" Hey Bulldog " has been covered by many artists and groups, including Miles Kane, Alice Cooper, Crash Kings, Jim Schoenfeld, Tea Leaf Green, Eric McFadden, Ween, Elvis Costello, Cyndi Lauper, Fanny, Honeycrack, Ian Moore, Gomez, Rolf Harris, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Firewater, The Gods, Skin Yard, Dave Matthews, Paddy Milner, Of Montreal, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Boxer, the Eric McFadden Trio, as well as The Roots, who covered it during jams in their live shows with the Beatles ' vocals replaced by rapping from their MCs.
Curious as to what he's seen, Miles ventures back to the area where he first spotted the creature only to find the water covered in strange pods he classifies as " eggs "; he takes one home and places it in his parents ' fish tank.
" Eight Miles High " has been covered by many different bands and artists, including, The Ventures, Leathercoated Minds, Lighthouse, Leo Kottke, Roxy Music, Ride, Stewart / Gaskin, Robyn Hitchcock, Rockfour, Les Fradkin, and The Postmarks.
The song was also covered in 1969 by Golden Earring, who put a nineteen-minute version on their Eight Miles High album.
* John Miles covered the song during the 2011 Night of the Proms tour

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