Trumpeter Miles Davis began a relationship with dancer Frances Taylor in 1958, and the couple married in December 1960. It was a particularly bad time for Davis. He was without a stable working group as jazz began to change without him, and he was suffering from sickle cell anemia.
To help ease the pain of his blood disorder, Davis turned to alcohol and cocaine. Domestic violence soon followed. A week after Taylor posed for the cover of Davis's E.S.P. album in 1965 (below), she left him. The couple remained separated until their divorce in 1968.
Here's Frances Davis, Her Story: Life Before & After Miles, a 50-minute video interview with Taylor by videographer Rick Bowman for the Shapshot Music & Arts Foundation headed by Jonathan Bewley...
