VIDEO/DVD: STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Happy Birthday, Miles Davis!

Today is the 86th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis, the most famous and historically significant jazz musician to come from the St. Louis area. In tribute, today we’ve got six extended-length performance videos of Davis for your listening and viewing enjoyment over the holiday weekend.

Representing four different decades of the trumpeter’s career, some of these videos have been excerpted here before, but this is the first time they’re being presented on StLJN in their entirety, adding up to nearly six hours of live sounds from Miles…

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