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Miles Davis #1100

Davis was late in a line of jazz trumpeters that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe “King” Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. He has been compared to Duke Ellington as a musical innovator: both were skillful players on their instruments, but were not considered technical virtuosos.

Miles Davis #1127

Davis was late in a line of jazz trumpeters that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe “King” Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. He has been compared to Duke Ellington as a musical innovator: both were skillful players on their instruments, but were not considered technical virtuosos.

Miles Davis #1273

Davis was late in a line of jazz trumpeters that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe “King” Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. He has been compared to Duke Ellington as a musical innovator: both were skillful players on their instruments, but were not considered technical virtuosos.

Miles Davis #1049

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 25, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one of the most distinguished jazz musicians of the latter half of the 20th century. A trumpeter, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s.

Miles Davis #PP30366

In the same period, he dropped out of Juilliard, having first asked permission from his father. In his autobiography, he criticized the Juilliard classes for centering too much on the classical European and "white" repertoire.

Miles Davis  #PP30367

A contract with Capitol Records granted the nonet several recording sessions between January 1949 and April 1950. This material was released in an album whose title - Birth of the Cool - became the namesake of the so called "cool jazz" movement which developed at the same time and partly shared the musical direction championed by Davis' group.

Nat king Cole #1199

Nat King Cole was a popular American singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. Caption from poster: Sponsors don’t have guts. Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark. – Nat King Cole on the cancellation of the “Nat King Cole Show” for lack of advertisers, December 1957.

Notorious B.I.G. #1250

Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), also known as the Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game), was a successful American rapper and hip-hop artist.

Otis Redding #24-267

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941  – December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. Often called the "King of Soul", he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice.  According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989), Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying.  " In addition, rock critic Jon Landau said in 1967 that '"Otis Redding is rock & roll".   Redding died in a plane crash at the age of 26, one month before his biggest hit, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay", was released.

Paul Robeson #1021

Caption from poster: We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.

Paul Robeson #1234

Caption from poster: “My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I’m going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?”

Paul Robeson #1235

Caption from poster: “Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom sing. Maybe I can touch people’s hearts beter than I can their minds, with the commong struggle of the common man.”