Miles Davis reinvented jazz at least five times. Every time the world caught up to what he was doing, he abandoned it and started something new. Cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, jazz fusion, electronic experimentation — he pioneered each one and moved on before imitators could settle in.
This episode traces Davis from his middle-class childhood in East St. Louis through his heroin addiction, his landmark albums, and the restless creative drive that made him the most important figure in jazz after Louis Armstrong.
Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time and redefined the genre
He pioneered at least five major movements in jazz across four decades
He overcame a severe heroin addiction in the 1950s through sheer force of will
Bitches Brew fused jazz with rock and created an entirely new genre of music
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