Miles Davis
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Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In a career sp
Davis in 1965
The house at 1701 Kansas Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, where Davis lived from 1939 to 1944
Tommy Potter, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Miles Davis and Duke Jordan in August 1947
Davis on piano with Howard McGhee (trumpet), Joe Albany (pianist, standing) and Brick Fleagle (guitarist, smoking), September 1947
Frances Taylor Davis
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Frances Taylor Davis was an American dancer and actress who was a member of the Katherine Dunham Company, and the first African American ballerina to perform with the Paris Opera Ballet.
Miles Davis
…quartet, though he returned for a couple tracks on Davis's album Someday My Prince Will Come (1961). Its front cover shows a photograph of Davis's wife, Frances Taylor, after Davis demanded that Columbia depict black women on his album covers. In December 1962, Davis, Rollins, Kelly, Chambers and Cobb played together…
Taylor Davis in 1964, with her husband, Miles (Swing Journal, January 1965)
Performing as Francisca (left) in the song "I Feel Pretty" for the original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story