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 …
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