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Interview: Miles Davis, 1984

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Marc Myers
Jan 11, 2019
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While Miles Davis was on tour in Baltimore in 1984, he agreed to appear on a daytime public-affairs talk show on WJZ-TV called City Line. For whatever reason, the co-hosts didn't bother to do a lick of research and made the fatal mistake of admitting as much to Davis. One of the hosts even asks Davis if he played with Charlie Parker. Astonished by the i…

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