Miles Davis Information Page

Name	Miles Davis
Occupation	Jazz musician, trumpeter
Birthdate	May 25, 1926
Birthplace	Alton, Illinois, USA
Obtained from	a- Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (contributor), Miles: The Autobiography, Touchstone, 1990 b- Personal conversation c- Radio show
Posted by	1- Joakim Svärd [a] 2- Philip Hentell [b] 3- Levis Morris [a] 4- Austin Prichard-Levy [a, c]
Comments	"He talks about his Julliard years and says how he and his friend used to call out the pitch as soon as a sound was heard.... - I believe he talks about it some more but don't remember where..." [1] "A prominent east coast piano player by the name of Bevan Manson told me that Miles Davis didn't have perfect pitch. He heard it from some side men." [2] "I have read the entire Miles Davis autobiography and he never mentions having perfect or even relative pitch." [3] "His autobiography makes no direct mention of the fact, but just prior to the publication of this book, there was a radio series broadcast about Miles's career, and in this it was revealed that Miles and other students from Juilliard with perfect pitch earned money in their spare time transcribing recordings of sound effects and other audio material derived from nature (e.g. doors slamming, animal noises, bird songs, etc.) for a publishing company that needed to score them in order to give them copyright protection." [4]