50 great moments in jazz: Birth of the Cool

Emerging from the shadow of his hero Charlie Parker, Miles Davis rejected the aggressive tempos of bebop to pioneer a new style that became a landmark in jazz evolutionMiles Davis, the dentist's son from St Louis who came to New York in 1944 to study music, dropped out of college when he met Charlie "Bird" Parker. Like most jazz-obsessed kids his age, Davis fell under Parker's spell, becoming entranced by the revolutionary musician, who seemed an unpredictable force of nature to whom the social...

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