Miles Davis. What he Teaches

oscar
3 min readNov 10, 2022
Photo by Joseph Hersh on Unsplash

Saw a wonderful documentary on Miles Davis, the star African American artist, on Netflix.
The blend of archival footage with interviews of relevant people in his life includes clips of the musician himself describing what he was going through at the time.
As a child his parents wanted him to learn to play an instrument. Mother suggested the violin, father insisted on the trumpet. And that was the start of a long creative period that…

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oscar

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