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Person · 1926–1991

Miles Davis

The trumpeter who reinvented jazz again and again, from bebop to cool to modal to fusion.

A perpetual revolution in [[jazz]].

Across five decades Miles Davis led every major shift in jazz — his "Kind of Blue" remains the best-selling jazz album ever.

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  1. August 17, 1959
    Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue"

    The best-selling and most influential jazz album ever made, defining modal jazz.

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