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Miles Davis was born on May 26, 1926. He grew up in a well-to-do family in East St. Louis. His father was a dentist. The family lived on a ranch and they had horses. (How lucky is that! All I ever wanted as a little girl was a pony.)
He started playing trumpet when he [...]

I got up this morning and decided to watch the Miles Davis interview that was featured on 60 Minutes in 1990. I remembered watching it when I was much younger and today just seemed like a Miles kind of day to me–whatever that means.
Here’s a Miles Davis performance of “Tutu” with Marcus Miller, David [...]