Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (born 1926)

Miles Dewey Davis III 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.