Miles Davis Research Paper

Miles Davis was an ordinary boy, born and raised in Illinois, United States who created one of the most complete jazz albums of all time called Kind of Blue. Davis’s parents were a big part of his early success, being that his father bought him his first trumpet at the age of 13 and his mother being a music teacher helped Davis express his love for music. By the age of 16 Davis was talented enough to play at local restaurants and bars around the city. Within one year a band called “Blue Devils” recognized Davis’s talent and asked him to join. Right after Miles finished high school in 1944 he moved to New York to study at Juilliard School which is arguably one of the most influential art school in the world. Although Juilliard School of Arts helped him improve his musical theory, Miles believed that the music he was being taught was very uninteresting and stated it didn’t fit the style he wanted to play leading him to drop out. Playing for nightclubs and bars while living in the city of jazz it wasn’t hard for a young talent like Miles to go unnoticed. In 1947 he joined …show more content…
Their music had a much more complex melody to it than Davis’s jazz album. Even though the album was created in the late 1950’s, I felt I could relate to it just as much as I do to the music today. It uses fewer chords on the songs from the album, similarly to the songs that are created today. Me being someone who listens to many genres of music, when listening to the Kind of Blue, I felt a correlation to modern music. A rap album called “To Pimp a Butterfly” consists of similar jazz sounds and instrumental sounds as the songs “So What” and “Blue in Green” from the Kind of Blue. Non listeners of jazz can also understand and appreciate the work put into this classic work of art hence making it the bestselling jazz album of all time at four million