Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born and raised in Illinois, Davis left to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. (read more on wikipedia)

Links to Peel
Although Jazz music never played a major role in John Peel's programmes, he would often occasion play them, even playing one side of Miles Davis' Agartha album in 1975. In 1992, Peel played tracks from trumpeter, Terry Edwards' Miles Davis cover EP called Terry Edwards Executes Miles Davis Numbers. In 1995 in an interview with the Wire magazine, Peel couldn't recognise a Miles Davis tune from the Rated X album, that was played to him by a journalist. After he was told it was Miles Davis, he replied that he thought he'd probably got that album.

Shows Played

 * Miles Davis – Agharta (Full Album) 1975
 * 22 February 1972: Gemini / Double Image (LP – Live Evil) CBS
 * 1975
 * 01 December 1975: Agartha (side 1).
 * 1982
 * 07 July 1982: Rouge (LP - Birth of the Cool) Capitol
 * 1984
 * 24 January 1984: Morpheus
 * 1988
 * 22 August 1988: Moose The Mooche (LP-Miles Davis) Archive Of Folk & Jazz