Miles inducted onto RockWalk

Legendary trumpeter, who would have turned 80 this year, gets a bronze bust on the Sunset Boulevard walkway gallery.

In a year that has seen him inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and confirmed to be the subject of a Don Cheadle-starring biopic, legendary trumpeter Miles Davis made Hollywood's famed RockWalk.

A bronze bust of Davis was placed outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard along Rockwalk yesterday in a ceremony attended by musicians and members of the Davis family, including his son, Erin, and daughter, Cheryl.

The RockWalk was established in 1985 to honor musicians who have made a significant contribution to the history of music. Most living inductees get their handprints immortalized on the sidewalk gallery.

Davis, who died in 1991 at age 65, is among a select group of musicians whose creativity spurred several major stylistics changes in jazz music. He was at the forefront of the bebop movement, as well as the cool jazz spawned by his Birth of the Cool album and the modal jazz introduced by his album Kind of Blue. Davis later experimented with jazz fusion on albums like Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way, as well as funk rock on the albums Pangaea and Agharta.

Davis will be the subject of a feature film starring Don Cheadle in 2007, while a DVD and a Smithsonian museum exhibit have also spurred a revival in interest in Davis' career.

Later this year, Sony Music is planning to release a new Miles Davis remix CD dubbed Evolution of the Groove. The project features guitarist Santana and rapper Nas.