Jazz Double Bassists and Bass Guitarists of Miles Davis

The subject of my dissertation, for which I chose the title " Jazz Double Bassists and Bass Guitarists of Miles Davis" is an introducrion of one of the most outstanding musical personalities of the 20th century, the American jazz trumpet player, composer and leader of several music bands, Miles Davis. In addition, eight of the most important double bass and bass guitar players, who cooperated with Miles in his bands throughout the almost fifty years of his career, are being introduced. In the opening of my thesis, I pay attention to my reasons for choosing Miles Davis as the subject of my study. Next I proceed to describing in great detail his personality and individual life stages, including both personal and professional life. In the following chapters I briefly summarize the characteristics of the individual double bassists and bass guitarists, that Miles chose to engage in his bands and projects, and with whom he then realized his recordings. I present their biographies, discographies as well as I describe the characteristics of their playing.I complement the text with a collection CD with musical excerpts that are typical for the individual players. I also mention these in the text. The CD is a part of my dissertation. I conclude the whole paper with a summary, acknowledgments, and a list of used literature and web addresses. plus a complete list of recordings that I used for the excerpts