Miles beat the rap and sued the police department for half a million dollars, a lawsuit which he eventually lost.
Along the way, the police revoked Miles' cabaret license so he couldn't perform in New York for awhile. Now, I've been racist toward nobody, but that don't mean I'm going to take shit from a person because he's White.
I didn't grin or shuffle and walk around with a finger up my ass begging for no handout and thinking I was inferior to Whites. I was living in America, too, and I was going to get everything that was coming to me. The death hit Miles hard because his father had always stood by him, even during his years of heroin addiction. By the middle s, jazz was losing some of its popularity.
Reacting to this trend, Columbia Records, where Miles had a recording contract, signed groups such as Blood, Sweat and Tears and Chicago, bands with a jazzy rock sound. Always looking for a new sound, even a radical one, Miles developed one for his next album Bitches Brew, recorded in and released in This album was recorded with electric instruments and had a jazz-fusion sound with plenty of improvisation and was influenced by the current rock-oriented music by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Sly Stone.
This revolutionary album sold very well from the get-go. Management at Columbia suggested that Mile begin playing at venues that attracted a younger crowd.
Miles obliged by playing some concerts at the Fillmore West with the Grateful Dead. Miles met Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist for the Dead, and they hit it off. Garcia loved jazz and had been a big fan of Miles for years. Miles also played at the Isle of Wight concert in England in August , which attracted over , people. At the Isle of Wight, Miles and Jimi Hendrix, who had been friends for awhile, planned to do an album together in the near future.
Unfortunately, Hendrix died only weeks later. By the summer of Miles was considering retirement. For years he had been having trouble with his hip, even after it had been operated on a time or two, and he had bleeding ulcers.
The partying life was taking its toll as well. Miles was heavily into snorting cocaine and had always been a heavy drinker and cigarette smoker.
And he was popping Percodan for his bad hip. It seemed his body was wearing out. Even the amplified music was beginning to wear him down. So, he retired. From until early Miles didn't even pick up his horn. Mostly what he did was hang around the house and party, consuming lots of cocaine, booze and pills such as Seconal; he even returned to injecting heroin.
He also had amorous liaisons with numerous women. During , actress Cicely Tyson began seeing Miles. Tyson helped Miles clean up his act.
She helped him give up cocaine and cut down on his drinking. She also helped him change his diet, emphasizing vegetables and juices and also helped him get acupuncture for his chronically ailing hip. After this therapy, Miles' head cleared somewhat and he began to consider playing his trumpet again. In the spring of , Miles began playing again. Months later, Columbia released the album The Man with the Horn, which most critics didn't like.
Some said Miles was only a shadow of his former self. Late in , Miles married Cicely Tyson, the last of several wives. Miles said that Tyson had a good side and bad side. Apparently, she could be pushy and domineering. The good side probably included helpfulness, because she helped Miles give up cigarettes, which he did cold turkey, as he had done with heroin many years before.
Regarding Miles' many wives and girlfriends, he liked putting photographs of them on his album covers. In Miles played a pimp and dope dealer in an episode of the television show Miami Vice. Black people are acting out roles every day in this country just to keep on getting by. Dave Lee. I watched the Saturday Night 25th last Sunday, and there was a clip of the Miles guest appearance. I was a pretty cool character.
Miles played the same mp just about his entire career. A Heim, bent at the throat, played oriented so it was pointing up. Jerry Callet makes a reproduction of Davis's mouthpiece.
I played one while visiting his shop. Interesting piece. Definately an interestin sound, as compared to the Monettes I was playing at the time, and probably still to the Laskeys I'm playing now. Is the home page address correct? I got an erroe message. Sign up or log in to read this article in full. Sign up. Already have an account? Log in. Resend verification e-mail. Subscribe now. By , however, a combination of exhaustion, personal demons and drug addiction forced him to take time out.
The trumpet was made by the Martin Company, which had been founded in Chicago in by the German instrument-maker, Johann Heinrich Martin. By the middle of the 20th century, demand for its trumpets was pretty much insatiable.
Dizzy Gillespie was a huge fan, Miles Davis was another. Davis was particularly fond of a model called the Committee.
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