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While Miles Davis started learning his craft at an early age a played a few gigs in and around his home town of Alton, Illinois his professional career didn’t get going until 1944 when after his graduation from high school, Miles moved to New York City to study music at the Juilliard School of Music

When he arrived in New York City he started to try to find some of the people he had played with when the Billy Eckstine band had visited East St. Louis. Future greats like Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, and Dizzy Gillespie were part of this band at this time.

The jazz clubs on 52^nd Street were ground zero of the blossoming jazz music scene at the time and when Miles finally found his hero and mentor Charlie he began to play jam sessions with a group of musicians many which were the future leaders of the bebop revolution

Some were young players such as Fats Navarro, Freddie Webster, and J. J. Johnson while others were established musicians including Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke who were also regular contributors.

Miles dropped out of Juilliard as he felt that the curriculum focused too much on the classical European and “white” repertoire. He did feel that Juilliard helped give him a good knowledge in music theory that would prove valuable in later years.

Davis began playing professionally, performing in several 52nd Street clubs with Coleman Hawkins and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and by 1945, he recording for the first time, as a member of Herbie Fields’ group.

He worked as a studio musician and contributed to several sessions until becoming a member of the cutting edge Charlie Parker band as a second trumpet to Dizzy Gillespie as well as having his own band named the Miles Davis Sextet which did some recording in those early years.

When Dizzy Gillespie left the Charlie Parker group Miles was hired as Gillespie’s replacement in his quintet as first trumpet.

This was the beginning of a career that lasted over 45 years and he left us with an unsurpassed library of jazz.

“If you understood everything I say, you’d be me! Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself”.

“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas”.

“You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best”.

These are inspired musical quotes by Miles Davis

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It’s a wild time in May at Santa Maria at the Elks Rodeo and Parade. Spectators can watch real cowboys strut their stuff with bareback riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild horse competitions. Independence Day is marked in San Francisco with the Fourth of July Waterfront Festival at Fisherman’s Wharf. There is all day live entertainment and there is a food festival, arts and crafts and fireworks. Jazz fans will appreciate the Jazz Festival held every September in Vacaville. Halloween sees a number of California events, including the Halloween Carnival in Calabasas where there are theatre productions and games for the children.

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The Chicago Gospel Music Festival takes place here in June. There are free concerts as part of the Grant Park Music Festival, which runs from the end of June to the end of August. Entertainment is provided by the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Country lovers have their own celebration at the Country Music Festival, held in July. Jazz fans too support the Jazz Festival, held over Labor Day weekend. This has been running over twenty years and showcases different types of jazz performed by both local and nationally known acts. Latin music fans are not forgotten and the Viva! Latin Music Festival gets everyone doing the salsa. This event is organized in either August or September, depending on the scheduling of other Chicago events in the year.

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