Early Life
Miles Davis was born in Illinois on May 26 1926 in Alton Illinois. His mother Cleota Mae was a music teacher and his father Dr Miles Dewy Davis was a dental surgeon. Davis was introduced to the trumpet at age 12. He began taking trumpet lessons by Elwood Buchanan, a friend of his father who directed a music school. In high school Davis played the trumpet professionally. When he was 17 he was invited by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to replace a sick bandmate. Soon After, Davis moved from Illinois to New York. He enrolled in Juilliard School known at the time as the Institute of Music Art. While at Juilliard, Davis played with Parker at Harlem nightclubs. He met many musicians who he would eventually play with him and create a new style of jazz. In 1945, with his fathers permission Davis dropped out of Juilliard to pursue music full-time and become a Jazz musician. This is when Miles career really began...