Question

Choose one jazz musician and discuss his/her contributions to jazz. What influence did this person have on the development and evolution of jazz music?

Answer 1

One of the famous jazz musician:

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✹ About him:

• Miles Davis, in full Miles Dewey Davis III, (born May 26, 1926, Alton, Illinois, U.S.—died September 28, 1991, Santa Monica, California).
• He is an American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s.
• Instrumental in the development of jazz, Miles Davis is considered one of the top musicians of his era. Born in Illinois in 1926, he traveled at age 18 to New York City to pursue music. 
• Throughout his life, he was at the helm of a changing concept of jazz. Winner of eight Grammy awards, Miles Davis died in 1991 from respiratory distress in Santa Monica, California.
• Honoring his body of work, in 1990, Miles Davis received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award.
• In 1991, he played with Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
• The two performed a retrospective of Davis's early work, some of which he had not played in public for more than 20 years.
• Later that same year, on September 28, 1991, Davis succumbed to pneumonia and respiratory failure, dying at the age of 65. 
• Fittingly, his recording with Quincy Jones would bring Miles Davis his final Grammy, awarded posthumously in 1993.
• The honor was just another testament to the musician's profound and lasting influence on jazz.

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