Miles davis bio recordings for the blind

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I still don’t get all the negativity around Miles Davis. I don’t understand where the idea comes from that Miles was nasty, mean and rude. The movie Miles Ahead went even further, idiotically depicting him as hostile and violent (not to mention that Don Cheadle looks absolutely nothing like Miles). That is Not the way Miles is described by musicians who worked with him. Have you ever read or listened to an interview with a former band member that was anything but positive?

In fact, Miles had a habit of leaning over and “hugging” his piano players from the shoulders in order to show them chord voicings (voicings are specific ways to spread out the notes of a chord, and specific notes to add for color). Starting as far back as the late 1940s, he tended to favor “crunchy” voicings —that is, voicings that contain dissonances such as half-steps. Was it necessary to lean over the pianists in order to show them voicin

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• Miles Davis American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991) Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.[1] Born into an upper-middle-class[2] family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens. He left to study at Juilliard in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, while addicted to heroin, D