This day in music history.

September 28, 1991, Miles Davis dies of pneumonia, respiratory failure and stroke in Santa Monica, Calf. He was 65 years old. He is considered the greatest trumpeter ever. Miles was a composer, and band leader, he invented his own styles of jazz, cool jazz and free jazz. His mother (Cleota Mae) was a music teacher and she started Miles on the trumpet at the age of 12. At the age of 18, Miles traveled to New York to study at the Julliard School of Music. Shortly after his arrival he met Charlie Parker and started to play local gigs with his band. By 1945 he quit school for a full-time career as a jazz musician. He would go on to play with some of the greatest musicians in the world and influenced every jazz musician since. Miles once said "My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."