Happy Birthday, Miles Davis!

Posted by D.A. Gutierrez in Commentary, News

May 26th, 2010   No Comments »

Miles Davis, circa Kind of Blue (1959). CREDIT: Don Hunstein © Sony BMG Entertainment

Today marks what would have been the 84th birthday of Miles Davis.

Late last year, the US House of Representatives decided to pay tribute to to his quadruple-platinum selling album, Kind of Blue. In a unanimous vote of 409-0, they recognized Davis’s contribution to jazz and reaffirmed the genre as a national treasure. Read more at Wikipedia.

That’s some talent! How often can anyone get Congress to agree on anything?  Happy Birthday to one of the greats of jazz!