Jacket, worn by Miles Davis
date: label: date made
content: 1991
name: label: user
content: Davis, Miles
label: maker
content: Versace, Gianni
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This custom jacket was made by Versace in Italy, circa 1991, for American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis (1926 - 1991).</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Davis wore this jacket during his performance with Quincy Jones for the Montreaux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, in 1991. Davis’ collaboration with Jones was one of his last performances and was a return to performing songs arranged by Gil Evans, that were featured on his albums from the 1950s, <i>Miles Ahead</i>, <i>Porgy and Bess</i>, and <i>Sketches of Spain</i>.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Jazz
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Miles Davis Properties
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0049.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0049
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0049.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 10 in x 24 in; 76.2 cm x 25.4 cm x 60.96 cm