Miles Davis: Jazz

Miles Davis The process of establishing Miles Davis in the field of the jazz music has many different aspects. The story of his professional development is very interesting and unstable as it has its breakthroughs and setbacks, and indeed, all turning points in his life has made a significant impact on the evolution of the jazz music sound. In this essay, I am going to discuss how Miles Davis affected every stream of jazz and how jazz affected him during his all life. Miles Davis started his career at the age of fifteen and continued this work for the next fifty years. He is considered to be not only an important figure in the history of jazz, but also a pioneer as many of new jazz genres came into existence thanks to him. Being a solo

Looking for a new sound, he started to work with the arranger Gil Evans, and this cooperation gave birth to a new wave of “cool jazz”. Later, this genre called West Coast cool jazz brought many other new sub-genres. During the same year, Miles formed his own band with a nine members in it where he combined in addition to himself a trombone, a baritone saxophone, an alto saxophone a tuba, and a French horn. At that time, the band included such musicians as John Lewis, Kenny Clarke, Kai Winding, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz and J. J. Johnson. All of them have brought into music relaxing notes. In the period of 1949-1950, the band recorded twelve compositions with the “cool” sound that were included in the album Birth of Cool which was released in 1954. That “cool” sound gave a push for the work in the next few years. Another album Boplicity clearly showed the evolution of the sound: the tempo was more slowly but the compositions still had such bop characteristics as the light style of drumming, keeping the beat with the help of bass, and the playing in unison at the beginning of the

In this composition, Miles meshed the jazz idiom with rock elements. This new style gave the musicians much freedom for creativity. Jack DeJohnette and Billy Cobham both played the drums while Harvey Brooks played the electric bass. Miles Davis’ instrument was electrified for this album, and other members were adding a lot of rock to the sound as well. Of course, this made a right influence on people and brought a lot of new listeners. This music was as cool as it only could be. For the next few years, Miles continued to experiment with fusion jazz and introduced Keith Jarrett and Airto Moreira into the small