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BEBOP
Started playing professionally around New York
Held jam sessions with many other musicians around Harlem
Charlie Parker , Thelonious Monk,
COOL JAZZ
Cool Jazz strode from bebop Davis wanted to play jazz with a lighter sound to sound more expressive
Released Birth of the Cool in 1957 I wanted the instruments to sound like human voices singing and they did.
BLUE
Depression and drug addiction period
Heroin habit began around 1950
Lasted for four years, inhibiting recording opportunities
This struggle did influence his works Inspiration from his struggles
"Philly Joe was a bitch. If he'd been a lawyer and white, he would have been president of the United States, because in order to get there you gotta talk fast and carry a lot of bullshit with you; Philly had it all and a lot to spare."
1959-1968
Great success came with Kind of Blue Continued to release albums and toured around the world Continued development of his quintet
Played with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter
Miles Davis Second Great Quintet
1968-1975
Heavily influenced by the funk scene
Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown,
Adopted electric keyboard into his band, guitar Jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz rock Banded with group of musicians to release Bitches Brew
"I remember one time, it might have been a couple times, at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening up for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. he didn't have his shit going on for him, so I'm pissed I got to open up for this non playin' mutha%#cker' just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out, so we would come late and he would have to go on first, then we got there, we smoked the muth%#&ckin' place, everybody dug it"
HOMEWORK IS FUN
Continued to work
Toured, produced, acted until his last years