Miles Dewey Davis III, as his full name goes, was born in Alton, Illinois in 1926. Exceptionally versatile, the career of ...

Davis created some of the 20th century's most challenging and influential music. Born May 25, 1926, in Alton, Ill., Miles Dewey Davis began playing the trumpet as a youngster in East St. Louis ...

Miles was christened Miles Dewey Davis III. His parents divorced but remained on friendly terms and remarried. Both are deceased. The Davises lived in an all-white neighborhood. Davis’ father ...

Miles Dewey Davis III moved to New York City in September of 1944 as a teenager and spent most of his eccentric 65 years in Manhattan. This Saturday would have been the trumpeter’s 92nd birthday ...

Born Miles Dewey Davis 3d, the son of a dentist, in Alton, Ill., on May 25, 1926, he moved at the age of 2 to nearby East St. Louis, where he received his first trumpet from a family friend.

“On behalf of the Miles Davis family, we are honored that the U.S. Postal Service and La Poste are paying homage to the timeless legacy of Sir Miles Dewey Davis,” said Cheryl Davis, Erin Davis ...

On May 26, 2025, the world marks the 99th birthday of Miles Davis, a cultural icon whose revolutionary music continues to ...

In many ways, that says it all about Miles Dewey Davis Jr.: One can imagine there was the same reaction to the early Cubist paintings, the brazen loudmouth strategies of the young Muhammad Ali ...

Jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Dewey Davis III was not what you would call a humble man. At the very least, the multi-talented musician made it a little bit easier to describe his career when ...

You could have easily gone the Walk the Line route with a Miles Davis film, telling the story of Cicely Tyson saving him from heroin addiction. I didn’t want to do that. We watched The Dewey Cox ...

Miles Dewey Davis III, as his full name goes, was born in Alton (Illinois) in 1926. Endlessly versatile, the career of this ...