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Jazz icon Miles Davis gets block named in his honor

Jazz icon Miles Davis gets block named in his honor

Don Hunstein/AP Musician Miles Davis is shown during recording session in 1959 for ‘Kind of Blue.’ The block that was the longtime home to a jazz legend was finall renamed in his honor on Wednesday. Officials renamed a stretch of W. 77th St. “Miles Davis Way” Wednesday, resolving a lengthy battle for the jazz impresario’s neighbor, Shirley Zafirau, who fought ...

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