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Trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-91) helped create the "cool" sound in jazz during the late 1940s, and later in 11is career he was a pioneer of jazz- rock "fusion" and other jazz idioms. Most crit- ics acknowledge Davis's importance as a cre- ative force in jazz, but in assessing him as a per- former they are made uneasy the "mis- takesJ'-the...