Miles Davis once said that music was "a curse" for him because he thought of nothing else while he was awake. Music was his life. But it wasn't always the passion of his life. At first, Miles wanted to be a baseball player and than a doctor, like his father, who was a dentist”.

For Miles thirteenth birthday, his father bought him his first trumpet. Miles was privileged to come from the family he did, because it meant he was able to have private trumpet lessons. He was trained by a teacher named Elwood Buchanan, before his natural talent and flare for improvisation took over. Miles progressed quickly at the trumpet, and played in a band

“The era of jazz innovation that Davis presided over came to an end with his experiments in jazz fusion. In the late 1970’s he began using drugs again and became a recluse within the walls of his own home. Only a handful of friends visited him, and he rarely talked to them (204).”

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