“…I’m quitting Julliard¹ because what they’re teaching me is white and I’m not interested in that….before I quit Juilliard…I took some lessons in symphonic trumpet playing…Trumpet players from the New York Philharmonic orchestra gave me lessons, so I learned some things from them.”

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1 Julliard School of Music is world renowned and for a black student to enter it in the mid-1940s shows how brilliant Miles Davis was in every aspect of music. He travelled from East St. Louis to Julliard, which is in New York, which is a 1,000 miles. Julliard recruits from all over the USA and has a rigorous entry policy. Juilliard School: Acceptance Rate, Tuition, Requirements, and More – Music School Central