Sold Date: March 25, 2019
Start Date: March 24, 2019
Final Price: $18.99 $14.25 (USD)
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RARE 6 Eye copy.  Record looks like VG, plays like VG+, with only light, brief ticking  on side 1 trk 2 ("Spring Is Here"). Sleeve has light wear around edges. Please see pictures. Both record and sleeve have been thoroughly cleaned. Records are visually graded based on Goldmine standards, some are test played to assure distortion free playback.  I am happy to offer combined shipping for LPs paid for in the same order, and shipped to addresses within the US, shipping is $4 for the 1st LP, and $1 for each additional. Please wait to be invoiced if combining shipping.  All records are removed from covers (unless sealed) and shipped in generic sleeve and sturdy record mailers to ensure safe arrival. Thanks.                                                                 Real Name: Miles Dewey Davis III - Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the most important figures in jazz music history, and music history in general. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Winner of eight Grammy awards.  Born: 26 May 1926 in Alton, Illinois, Died: 28 September 1991 in Santa Monica, California, age 65.

Best known for his seminal modern jazz album "Kind Of Blue" (1959), the highest selling jazz album of all time with six million copies sold.

Miles went to NYC to study at the academic school for musicians, where he met Charlie Parker. They started playing together from 1945. In 1948 Miles Davis started to make his own ensembles, at that time he met Gil Evans, The Miles Davis Nonet was born. From the few recordings they made in 1949 to 1950 came the album "Birth Of The Cool" (1956), with Davis and Evans going on to work more together in the future.

Miles Davis was one of the musicians who introduced the 'Hard Bop' in the mid 1950s. In the late 1960s he started to experiment with electronic instruments and rock and funk rhythms. In the mid 1970s he stopped playing because of health problems, though in 1980 he made an 'electronical' comeback. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 (Performer).

The Miles Davis Quintet did not exist continuously, but was formed several times with different basic line-ups. Mainly known are the two "Great Quintets".  "First Miles Davis Quintet" or First Great Miles Davis Quintet" - 1955 to 1958 with the following main artists (changes in line-up not shown here):

Miles Davis — Trumpet

John Coltrane — Tenor Saxophone

Red Garland — Piano

Paul Chambers (3) — Double Bass

"Philly" Joe Jones — Drums

increased to Sextet in 1958 with Cannonball Adderley — Alto Saxophone

"Second Miles Davis Quintet" or "Second Great Miles Davis Quintet" - 1964 to 1969 with the following main artists (changes in line-up not shown here):

Miles Davis — Trumpet

Wayne Shorter — Tenor Saxophone

Herbie Hancock — Piano

Ron Carter — Double Bass

Anthony Williams — Drums