03/26/2018 MUS 116-001 Michael D’Angelo Miles Davis Miles Davis is one of the most influential people in the history of jazz. He was an American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. Davis was a central figure in the evolution of jazz, and one cannot reflect on the progression of this genre without mentioning his name. Throughout his illustrious career, he never stopped evolving and honing his musical talents. Although he had many mentors and influences, Davis always sought to push forward and challenge
Bebop is a fast tempo jazz style, characterized by instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the use of harmonic structure. Among the artist that made bebop famous are Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Miles Davis played bebop with Charlie Parker’s band and contributed pure-toned solos. In 1944 Miles Davis joined Charlie Parker’s band, and steadily he was exploring the phasing and harmonies of Bebop, and he was confidentely finding his own voice. Cool jazz is a modern jazz style characterized
Nine-times Grammy award winner, jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer, Miles Davis had a grand and significant role in the development of Jazz and is considered one of the most influential musician, leaving his legacy behind. Along with his musical groups, Miles Davis was the leading and main reason to numerous great developments of Jazz, such as bebop, jazz-fusion, hard bop, and cool jazz. And yet, his sounds went on to influence many other later styles of music, such as pop and R&B
Miles Davis, raised in Illinois, was a very natural musician who had a drive-a leadership and motivation that always had a thirst for new ideas. He grew a real need to change the definition of Jazz, to modernize its sound, finding and exploring new ways of Jazz music. He had an aura and musicality that attracted many younger people and younger musicians. [Lyons. 2015. University of Ulster] Davis grew a powerful, melodic and expressive style. He developed his own method of playing such as the use
twenties is the jazz. Jazz inspired and also guided the future genre of music. Jazz was usually played with in African Americans in the early 1900. African Americans were most known to play jazz because of their culture from their ancestors that brought it from Africa when they were forced to be slaves. By the time African Americans for free from slavery, they headed north to abandon the surplus racism they had to endure from the south. The Roaring Twenties are often called the Jazz Age, a time where