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Miles Davis on Getting Stopped By The Police | The D**k Cavett Show

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Miles Davis gives Nicolas Cage a lesson in the trumpet and discusses the police and the racist attitudes they have towards him and his success. Date aired - October 7, 1986 - Miles Davis, Nicolas Cage #MilesDavis #NicolasCage #DickCavett For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-d**k-cavett-show D**k Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and D**k Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, D**k Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC. His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, D**k Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by D**k Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015. Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. #thedickcavettshow

About Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In a career spanning nearly five decades, Davis was at the forefront of several major stylistic developments in jazz, including—but not limited to—bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and jazz fusion. Davis's legacy extends beyond jazz into the realms o...

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