Miles Davis retrospective celebrates birth of cool
Wednesday, October 3, 2001
ST. LOUIS -- Jazz great Miles Davis was born in Alton, Ill., and grew up in East St. Louis, Ill. He left the St. Louis area at 18 to become one of jazz's premiere innovators, a trumpet player, composer and bandleader who came to epitomize the word cool.
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