Miles davis parents biography

American dentist

Miles Dewey Davis Jr. (March 1, 1898^[1] – May 21, 1962^[2]) was an American dentist and father of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.

Biography

Davis was born on March 1, 1898, in Noble Lake, Arkansas. He was a son of Miles Dewey Davis Sr. and Mary (Luster) Davis. He was educated at the Arkansas State Normal School (now University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff) in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and received his Bachelor of Science degree at Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock in 1919. His studies continued at Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1924, Davis graduated from Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago, Illinois and began his practice the same year. He was a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and the National Medical Association.^[1]

On June 16, 1924, he married Cloots Mae (or Cleota) Henry. This union produced three children:^[1]

• Dorothy Mae Davis (Mrs. Vincent W

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  Jazz musician Miles Davis: photograph portrait by Tom Palumbo

  Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the twentieth century. A trumpeter, band leader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played on some early bebop records and recorded the first cool jazz records. He was partially responsible for the development of modal jazz, and jazz fusion arose from his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Free jazz was the only post-war jazz style not significantly influenced by Davis, although some musicians from his bands later pursued this style. His sound recordings, along with the live performances of his many influential bands, were vital in jazz's acceptance as music with lasting artistic value. A popularizer as well as an innovator, Davis became famous for his languid, melodic style and h

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Davis, Miles Dewey, III

(b. 26 May 1926 in Alton, Illinois; d. 28 March 1991 in Santa Monica, California), jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and painter who helped introduce the neo-bop and modal styles of music.

Davis was one of three children born to Miles Dewey Davis, II, a dental surgeon, and Cleota Henry, a homemaker. Davis’s father established his practice in East St. Louis, Illinois, and from the age of one Davis was raised and educated there. Davis’s youth was spent in relatively affluent circumstances. He spent vacation times on his father’s 200-acre hog farm near Millstadt, Illinois. From early adolescence Davis came to know big-city nightlife in St. Louis, Missouri, across the Mississippi River from East St. Louis.

Miles Davis had the favor of his father to the point of indulgence, and from him he inherited a strong sense of family pride predicated on three generations of African American success against oppressive odds. Davis’s mother had social pretensions t