Miles Dewey Davis III was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton Illinois. Miles Davis was the son of a music teacher and a dental surgeon. He grew up in a middle-class household. At the age of 13 his dad introduced the trumpet to him. Elwood Buchanan wanted to help develop Davis’s style, he was a friend of Davis’s father. Davis played professionally during high school. Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker liked Davis’s work and invited him onstage to perform when a band member was is and wasn’t able to play. Davis attended Juilliard School (Institute of Musical Art) in 1944, soon after the performance. While attending college, Davis played in nightclubs. Many musicians played alongside him. In 1945, Miles Davis dropped out of with his father’s permission
