Biography
Composer and Trumpeter Miles Davis (Miles Davisa) were called the prince of Darkness and Picasso Jazz. According to Rolling Stones, no other jazz musician has had such an influence on rock music as he.Childhood and youth
Jazzman was born in the city of Olton State Illinois on May 26, 1926 in a very unusual family of the Negroid race. Father worked as a doctor in his own dental office, and the mother taught music, playing the violin, dressed in mink coats and diamonds.
The musician, the first son of a succeeding dentist, called Miles Dewey in honor of the Father, so the "Junior" prefix was added to the name of the trumpeter in his youth, which was very annoyed. Jazzman had older sister Dorothy May and the younger brother Vernon Napoleon. After the divorce with the mother of the firstborn Miles Dewey-Middle (grandfather of the musician on the father's line was also called) he married the secondary and in 1959 he got another Supreme Joseph.
Soon after the birth of the heir to the family name, Davisi moved to East Saint Louis. The mines of the dark-skinned family were Jews, Armenians, Germans and Greeks.
Embed from getty imagesAs a child, Miles was fond of sports - boxing, swimming, baseball and American football. For the color of the skin and miniature of the same time, the boy teased with buckwheat. The squad often received a landfast from his father and mother, while Vernon Napoleon, distinguished by the courtesy, was a universal favorite. Misroslev, Miles's younger brother became a homosexual.
In 10 years, despite the material well-being of the family, the future musician began to spread the newspapers: the boy wanted to have pocket money and spend them on candy and other sweets. On Radio, Miles listened to jazz concerts and at 12 years old solid decided to become a trumpet.
The first pipe of the boy presented a friend of Father John Yubanks, the lessons of the beginning instrumentalist gave the musician Elwood Bureken, who treated with Pope Miles's teeth. Mother persuaded Miles to switch to a violin or piano, but the future founder of Kul jazz was adamant. On the 13th anniversary, the father gave a more perfect tool to the young trumpet.
Personal life
From the first lover Irene Reiming (Coteon), Miles met at the School for Black Name Abraham Lincoln. In 1944, the girl gave birth to a novice musician daughter Cheryl. In May 1947, Jazzman composed a work with such a name. By this time, Miles and Iren had a second child - the son of Davis, and the musician was addicted to alcohol and cocaine.In May 1949, during a trip to the Paris International Jazz Festival, Miles twisted an affair with a white singer and actress Juliette Greco, who lasted for several years.
Embed from getty imagesTreason of the musician did not interfere with Irene in August 1950 to make the musician attend the musician. Although the newborn was called in honor of the Father Milz, Jazzman threw the children and their mother. In the personal life of the trumpeter, prostitutes and heroin were occupied.
In 1954, Miles, for the time of defeats, a narcotic dependence, reunited with Greco, which came to New York to present a film with his participation. In 1955, Davis removed polyps from Lornani. The musician violated the prohibition of doctors into conversations during the first weeks after the operation and received a lifetime hoarse.
At the end of 1959, Miles married a Francis Taylor dancer, which met in 1953 in Los Angeles. Photo of the spouse he placed on the cover of the album of 1961 Someday My Prince Will Come. Marriage in which Miles regularly beat his wife, ended in 1968. The aggressive behavior of a man provoked alcohol and drugs, which he tried to muffle pain caused by sickle cell anemia.
In 1965, Davis survived 2 operations on the hip joint. Initially, the musician implaned the bone from the lower leg, and then the plastic prosthesis. In January 1966, Mailz spent 3 months in the hospital because of the liver infection.
Arriving, the man began to meet with actress Siseli Tyson, who helped Davis to reduce alcohol consumption. The photos of the Savior Miles posted on the cover of the album Sorcerer ("Wizard"), who replenished him discography in 1967.
Embed from getty imagesHowever, he married the musician only in 1981, survived before this short-term marriage with a young model and writer of the songs of Betty Maby and Roman with Margaret Escridge, who gave birth to his fourth child - Son Erina. In 1972, Davis received the fractures of both ankles in the car accident and again fell on cocaine and painkillers.
From 1975 to 1980, Trumpeters did not speak and lived in a dirty camork with cockroaches. In 1979, at the request, Margaret Miles was put in prison for non-payment of alimony to the Son. From the shy, the musician got out, paying a fine of $ 10 thousand.
The marriage to Tyson pulled Davis from the bunch of narcotic madness and returned jazzman to music. However, in 1982, when Siseli was on the set in Africa, the trumpeter was broken, moved with alcohol and earned a stroke, temporarized the right hand. The returned wife went out her husband and added to drawing, to which Miles was engaged in the rest of his life. In 1989, the marriage of Davis and Tyson ended.
Music
"I think about music, falling asleep and waking up; This is the only thing for which I live, "the trumpeter wrote in autobiography.Although the individual music units believe that Davis was inferior in talent to such jazzmen as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and John Koltreyne (with the last two Olton native played together), he reached outstanding results thanks to hard work and leadership qualities.
A collection of Davis Kind of Blue, released in 1959, remains the most-selling jazz album of all time. In 1987, Males was awarded the Grammy Award as the best jazz soloist, and after 3 years he received the Grammy for his contribution to the music lifelong.
Embed from getty imagesDavis possessed a gift to catch the blow of the musical fashion and use them in their work. So, in the late 40s of the 20th century, Miles modified the bobop, introducing long notes without vibrato and meaningful pauses, and also created the first ensemble playing "cool jazz". In the mid-60s of the 20th century, a man recorded albums, which became the standards of acoustic jazz, and at the end of the decade diluted the compositions of the fatal reefs and began to use power tools in his ensembles.
The last album of Doo Bop Miles was recorded with a young DJ and Rapper Izi Mo B. The guy who managed to complete the collection after the death of Jazzman, subsequently became famous for the only producer who worked with Tupak Shakur, and with his opponent Notorius B.G.G.
Death
Since February 1989, rumors crawled out that jazzman was sick by AIDS. At the end of the first autumn month of 1991, Miles died at the Hospital of St. John in California Santa Monica. The cause of death was a combination of stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. After the death of Father, Cheryl in the will inherited 20% of his condition, and Davis - 40%. Younger sons Miles did not leave anything.Davis buried along with one of his pipes. The grave of Jazzman is located on the cemetery "Woodlon" in the New York Bronx.
In 2019, the American director Stanley Nelson took off the film "Miles Davis: The birth of a new jazz", which at the end of March 2020 showed the Russian Channel 20. In addition to archival photos and records of trumpeter concerts, the picture shows reasoning about the jazzmen of his colleagues Carlos Santana and Herbian Hancock.
Discography
- 1955-1956 - Round ABOUT MIDNIGHT
- 1958 - Porgy and Bess
- 1959 - Kind of Blue
- 1959-1960 - Sketches Of Spain
- 1961 - Someday My Prince Will Come
- 1963 - Seven Steps to Heaven
- 1967 - Sorcerer
- 1967 - Nefertiti.
- 1968 - Miles In The Sky
- 1968 - Filles de Kilimanjaro
- 1969 - In A Silent Way
- 1969 - Bitches Brew
- 1970 - Black BEAUTY
- 1972 - ON THE CORNER
- 1974 - Get Up With IT
- 1975 - Agharta.
- 1986 - Tutu.
- 1991 - Doo Bop