Miles Davis
Trumpeter, bandleader, composer
1926–1991, born in Alton, Illinois
Moved to NYC Wikipedia
Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Miles Davis to the Upper West Side, Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 312 West 77th Street
312 West 77th Street, Manhattan: His home from about 1960 until the mid-1980s. The block is now Miles Davis Way.
Source: 6sqft.com
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Carnegie Hall
1891Opened in 1891. By the 1900s Sergei Rachmaninoff was among those staging or performing their own music here, the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini frequently recorded in the Main Hall, and Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis are among the many jazz performers who have played here, per Wikipedia.
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Brooklyn Paramount
1928–1962Opened in 1928 as a movie palace that occasionally hosted concerts. Michael Hittman, an anthropology professor, says it helped introduce Brooklyn to jazz, with artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis, per Wikipedia.
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Beacon Theatre
1929A 1929 movie palace on Broadway that began presenting live entertainment in 1966. Miles Davis played it in the early 1980s and Laurie Anderson during that decade, Sonny Rollins in the second half of the 1990s, and Paul Simon gave the first performances after its 2009 reopening, per Wikipedia.
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Studio
Columbia 30th Street Studio
1948–1981Columbia Records’ studio in a former church, nicknamed “The Church”, from 1948 to 1981. Miles Davis recorded almost exclusively here during his years under contract to Columbia, including Kind of Blue (1959), and Thelonious Monk recorded here too. The building was later demolished, per Wikipedia.
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Birdland (the first club)
1949–1965Named for Charlie Parker, it opened just north of West 52nd Street in December 1949 with Harry Belafonte and Lennie Tristano on the bill. The Count Basie Orchestra was a regular booking and recorded Basie at Birdland here, and Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis appeared. It closed in 1965; today’s Birdland is on West 44th Street, per Wikipedia.
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The Village Gate
1958–1994Art D’Lugoff’s club at Bleecker and Thompson Streets, 1958 to 1994. It featured musicians including Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and Edgard Varèse, and the Alegre label held events there that led to live records, among them the Tico All-Stars’ Descargas (1966) with Tito Puente, Ray Barretto and Joe Cuba. In 2008 its downstairs space reopened as (Le) Poisson Rouge, per Wikipedia.
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Fillmore East
1968–1971Bill Graham’s rock theatre on Second Avenue, open from March 1968 to June 1971. Miles Davis’s band opened for Laura Nyro here on four nights in June 1970, recorded for Miles Davis at Fillmore, and Taj Mahal played eight shows, per Wikipedia.
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The Blue Coronet
1969A Bed-Stuy jazz club, now shut. Its owner told The Independent Ear that Miles Davis played there regularly, that Thelonious Monk drew crowds, and that Etta Jones played it many times. A 1969 bootleg of Davis's quintet is the only known live recording made at the club, per The Independent Ear.
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