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Topic: Miles Davis

American actor Peter Weller on the set of "RoboCop," directed by Paul Verhoeven. (Orion Pictures Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Weller on "RoboCop" to Renaissance man

Chauncey DeVega
Miles Davis performing live on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1969 (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images)

How Miles Davis electrified jazz

Björn Heile - The Conversation
Hugh Hefner, Harold Washington and Sidney Poitier (AP/Suzanne Hanover)

Hugh Hefner's real legacy is racial

Rachel Leah
(Getty/Bloomsbury Publishing)

"Bitches Brew" blew our minds

George Grella Jr.
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David Bowie, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar (AP/Reuters/Shaun Best/Lucy Nicholson/Scott Roth)

Jazz: It's not just for nerds!

Scott Timberg
Don Cheadle in "Miles Ahead" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Don Cheadle on Miles, racism

Andrew O'Hehir
Don Cheadle in "Miles Ahead" (Bifrost Pictures)

A white buddy for Miles Davis

Paula Young Lee
This CD cover image released by Warp Records shows "You're Dead!," by Flying Lotus. (AP Photo/Warp Records)

Flying Lotus on jazz

Sarah Gray
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David Byrne, Thom Yorke (Reuters/Hugo Correia/AP/Chris Pizzello/Photo collage by Salon)

David Byrne was right

Scott Timberg
Jimi Hendrix (AP/Legacy)

Pop music's debt to black rock

Noah Berlatsky
Miles Davis, Don Cheadle, Jay Z (AP/Remy de la Mauviniere/Richard Shotwell/Joel Ryan/Salon)

Hip Hop stole from Miles Davis

Neil Drumming

John Wriggle - LA Review of Books
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