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Sep 28, 2022, 12 tweets

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#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 50yr career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Bio Pt.1
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Bio Pt.2
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Influential jazz figure. Quincy Thomas Troupe Jr, poet, editor, journalist & Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, CA, wrote a comprehensive biography on Miles.
#History

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Miles…
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Photos…
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Photos…
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Photos…
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926– Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Miles…
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926–Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 5-decade career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

So What (1959)
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926–Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 50yr career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Footprints (1967)
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926–Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 50yr career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Hannibal (1989)
#History #Jazz

#OTD Miles Davis joined the ancestors (May 26, 1926–Sept 28, 1991). Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, influential jazz figure. His variety of musical directions over a 50yr career kept him at the forefront of major stylistic developments in jazz.

Tutu (1989)
#History #Jazz

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