Miles Davis Nefertiti 2009 Music On Vinyl LP Reissue Remastered 180 gram NM/NM

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Miles Davis - Nefertiti

Label: Music On Vinyl MOVLP031,  Columbia/Legacy  88697404121

Format: Vinyl  LP Album, Reissue, Remastered,  180 gram

Release: Europe, 2009

Genre: Jazz

Vinyl NM with no visible surface wear, no scratches, clean labels. Sleeve NM- intact edges, no splitting, no cut-outs, no ring wear, clean and unmarked, no writing, no price stickers, very faint surface wear from use, storage and handling.

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Miles Davis (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, and experimental music. Born into an upper-middle-class family in  Alton, Illinois, and raised in  East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens. He left to study at  Juilliard  in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist  Charlie Parker's  bebop  quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the  Birth of the Cool  sessions for  Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of  cool jazz. In the early 1950s, while addicted to heroin, Davis recorded some of the earliest  hard bop  music under  Prestige Records. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the  Newport Jazz Festival, he signed a long-term contract with  Columbia Records, and recorded the album  'Round About Midnight  in 1955.  It was his first work with saxophonist  John Coltrane  and bassist  Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger  Gil Evans, such as the  Spanish music–influenced  Sketches of Spain  (1960), and band recordings, such as  Milestones  (1958) and  Kind of Blue  (1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time,  having sold over five million copies in the U.S.

Davis made several lineup changes while recording  Someday My Prince Will Come  (1961), his  1961 Blackhawk concerts, and  Seven Steps to Heaven  (1963), another commercial success that introduced bassist  Ron Carter, pianist  Herbie Hancock  and drummer  Tony Williams. After adding saxophonist  Wayne Shorter  to his new quintet in 1964, Davis led them on a series of more abstract recordings often composed by the band members, helping pioneer the  post-bop  genre with albums such as  E.S.P.  (1965) and  Miles Smiles  (1967),  before transitioning into his electric period. During the 1970s, he experimented with rock, funk,  African rhythms, emerging  electronic music technology, and an ever-changing lineup of musicians, including keyboardist  Joe Zawinul, drummer  Al Foster, bassist  Michael Henderson  and guitarist  John McLaughlin.  This period, beginning with Davis's 1969 studio album  In a Silent Way  and concluding with the 1975 concert recording  Agharta, was the most controversial in his career, alienating and challenging many in jazz. His million-selling 1970 record  Bitches Brew  helped spark a resurgence in the genre's commercial popularity with  jazz fusion  as the decade progressed. After a five-year retirement due to poor health, Davis resumed his career in the 1980s, employing younger musicians and  pop  sounds on albums such as  The Man with the Horn  (1981),  You're Under Arrest  (1985) and  Tutu  (1986). Critics were often unreceptive but the decade garnered Davis his highest level of commercial recognition. He performed sold-out concerts worldwide, while branching out into visual arts, film and television work, before his death in 1991 from the combined effects of a stroke,  pneumonia  and  respiratory failure.  In 2006, Davis was inducted into the  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,  which recognized him as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz".  Rolling Stone  described him as "the most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century,"  while  Gerald Early  called him inarguably one of the most influential and innovative musicians of that period.