Birth of the Blue
The sextet was less than two weeks old when they assembled at CBS Records’s 30th Street Studio for their first session on May 26. Yet they were ready. They recorded four tunes: three ballads — two inspired by pianist Ahmad Jamal, whose 1950s group Miles adored and drew inspiration from, plus a new Miles original.
Miles
Davis
Miles Davis is one of the most innovative, influential and acclaimed figures in the history of music.
Legend
Miles Davis made music that grew from an uncanny talent to hear the future and a headstrong desire to play it. From his beginnings in the circle of modern jazz, he came to intuit new worlds of sound and challenge. While the vast majority of musicians – jazz, rock, R&B, otherwise – find the experimental charge and imperviousness of youth eventually running down, Miles forever forged ahead. In doing so, Miles became the standard bearer for successive generations of musicians, shaped the course of modern improvisational music more than a half-dozen times.
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