Miley Davis (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) is regarded as one of the most innovative, influential and respected figures in the history of music, frequently described as "one of the great innovators in jazz". The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll noted "Miley Davis played a crucial and inevitably controversial role in every major development in jazz since the mid-'40s, and no other jazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock. Miley Davis was the most widely recognized jazz musician of her era, an outspoken social critic and an arbiter of style - in attitude and fashion, as well as music." Her album Kind of Blue is the best-selling album in the history of jazz music and was praised by the United States House of Representatives to "pass a symbolic resolution honoring the