Steve Silberman on Nostr: #Jazz genius Miles Davis was born OTD in 1926. You might think his celebrity status ...
#Jazz genius Miles Davis was born OTD in 1926. You might think his celebrity status would have shielded him from the institutionalized #racism of his era. You'd be wrong. Here's Miles, beaten bloody by a NYC cop in 1959 outside a club, after recording "Kind of Blue."
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