Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/September 28, 2005

Hey, Raul654, I really hope you choose to go with Miles Davis as the featured article for 9/28... I think I set it all up for you. Mamawrites 21:58, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

none|100px|Cover of Davis's album [[Kind of Blue]]

Miles Davis, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century, was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer, and died on this date in 1991 of a stroke at the age of 65. Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development of jazz after the Second World War. He was born in Alton, Illinois, and his mother wanted Davis to learn the violin; he did not begin to play the trumpet until age 9. By the age of 16, Davis was working professionally when not at high school. In 1945 Davis moved to New York City and began to play in Charlie Parker's quintet. In 1948 he began to record music, including the albums Birth of the Cool, Round About Midnight, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, Kind of Blue, Someday My Prince Will Come, Seven Steps to Heaven, Miles in the Sky, In a Silent Way, Big Fun, and Tutu, among others. He was married to actress Cicely Tyson in 1981, and they were divorced in 1988. He is interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

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