MILES DAVIS X ROOTS OF FIGHT
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About — Miles Davis
“Don’t play what’s there. Play what’s not there.”
Over the years, there have been thousands of musicians, yet only a select few can be called geniuses. The kind that change music, not once but multiple times through the decades. The type of player who can’t easily be defined, holding a bar of artistry beyond the reach of our yearning.
A linguist of the brass who invents impossible sound against the constraints of his era.
You already know who it is. The legend himself, Miles Davis. The Prince of Darkness. The counter to everything square and whose trumpet soared to where no man dared. Miles is the man.
Born and raised in East St. Louis a stone’s throw from the mighty Mississippi, Davis poured his soul into jazz. From the sounds of black radio in the 1940s to Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong to his idol Charlie Parker, he took the notes to the highest stage order, made them brood, shaped them into liberation itself. Early on he joined the Rhumboogie Orchestra and made a name. Soon it was New York City. Legendary gigs at Minton’s Playhouse. Monroe’s Uptown. Every swaying spot in Harlem. The bebop was alive.
If St. Louis was the gateway to the west, Miles was the gateway to high art. He influenced everyone from Thelonious Monk to John Coltrane to Beat Generation to Roberto Duran, as he was a boxing aficionado, all by ushering in the Birth of Cool. The decades rolled by with him providing the soundtrack. Culture jumped to the sounds of that trumpet.
As part of our Roots of Fight: Jazz launch, we are thrilled to roll out this new line with the great, Miles Davis!
