Previous posts for May 26th are available here: William Bolcom (2019), Teresa Stratas (2020), and Isadora Duncan (2021)
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Miles Davis (26 May 1926 – 28 September 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
Left Behind
Critics were often unreceptive but the decade garnered Davis his highest level of commercial recognition. – Wikipedia
When In a Silent Way was released later that year, some critics accused him of "selling out" to the rock and roll audience. – Wikipedia
In a 1982 interview in DownBeat, Wynton Marsalis said: "They call Miles's stuff jazz. That stuff is not jazz, man. Just because somebody played jazz at one time, that doesn't mean they're still playing it." – Wikipedia
The critics objected when Miles
Explored other musical styles.
Their writing derides
His most popular sides,
They said that jazz fusion
Was just an illusion,
And they deeply disparaged such trials.
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