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Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in genres such as jazz, classical.. Miles Davis plays with his sextet in New York City, 1958. Robert W. Kelley Time & Life Pictures/Shutterstock Miles Davis (right) plays his trumpet beside a promising talent he'd recruited for his sextet in 1955, a man who'd go on to become a jazz giant in his own right: tenor saxophonist John Coltrane.