Miles Davis
- MatchMiles Davis
- 91%John Coltrane
- 66%Charles Mingus
- 65%Herbie Hancock
- 60%Cole Porter
- 60%Duke Ellington
- 60%Horace Silver
- 60%Sonny Rollins
- 60%Wayne Shorter
- 58%Thelonious Monk
- 57%Cannonball Adderley
Biography
Miles Dewy Davis, 25 May 1926, Alton, Illinois, USA, d. 28 September 1991, Santa Monica, California, USA. Davis was born into a comparatively wealthy middle-class family and both his mother and sister were capable musicians. He was given a trumpet for his thirteenth birthday by his dentist father, who could not have conceived that his gift would set his son on the road to becoming a giant figure in the development of jazz. Notwithstanding his outstanding talent as master of the trumpet,... Read more