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Article: JAZZ LEGEND MILES DAVIS DIES AT 65
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- September 29, 1991
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Miles Davis is shown at a July 14 performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival at The Hague, the Netherlands. (Associated Press photo)
Miles Davis Discography
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Miles Davis, a trumpeter and composer whose haunting tone and ever- changing style made him an elusive touchstone of jazz for four decades, died Saturday at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 65.
He died of pneumonia, respiratory failure and a stroke, his doctor, Jeff Harris, said.
Davis' unmistakable, voicelike, nearly vibratoless tone - at times distant and melancholy, at others assertive yet luminous - has been ...