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| | Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler |
 | | We find, for instance, that when Miles Davis was a St. Louis teenager he encountered Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for the first time. |
 | | This meeting proved fateful, and by 1945 a nineteen-year-old Davis had left Julliard to play with Parker on 52nd Street. |
 | | Knowledge of these professional alliances, along with the countless others chronicled in this book, are central to tracing the development of significant jazz movements, such as the "cool jazz" that became one of Miles Davis' hallmarks. |
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