Miles Davis, as seen on the cover
of his landmark album Kind of Blue
On this day in 1926, Miles Dewey Davis was born in Alton, IL. A year later, the family moved to East St. Louis, and...well, if you're any sort of jazz fan, you already know a lot of what happened after that.
Miles will always hold a special place in my heart, because it was his work that first led me to jazz. If I hadn't heard Bitches Brew as an impressionable 15-year-old, I might never have become a musician or music journalist, and could very well be blogging instead about baseball, politics or some other random topic.
To celebrate this jazz giant who changed the course of music so many times over the years, check out his official site or the site maintained by Sony/Legacy, the label for which he did some of his most memorable work. You may also enjoy the fan sites Milestones and Miles Ahead (which has a nice discography and lots of links), as well as Miles Beyond and this essay, which deal with Miles' electric music of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.
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