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- DIED. Miles Davis, 65, jazz trumpeter whose restless ear
- compelled him to invent new sounds; of pneumonia and a stroke;
- in Santa Monica, Calif. "Don't play what you know," Davis said.
- "Play what you hear." His music was about taking risks and went
- through enormous changes as reworked bop, cool jazz or fusion.
- He left East St. Louis, Ill., at the age of 18, then played with
- Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in New York City. With his
- unbeatable ear for talent, he formed his own groups, performing
- beside musicians as varied as John Coltrane and Branford
- Marsalis. The son of a dentist, he overcame a heroin habit in
- the 1950s and a bad auto accident in 1972, but never lost his
- fury. His single rule -- never go back -- sent him in recent
- years into unexplored regions of electrified jazz and funk that
- disappointed some loyalists.
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