"Miles Davis." Contemporary Black Biography. The Gale Group, Inc, 2006. Answers.com 02 Mar. 2009. http://www.answers.com/topic/miles-davis : "His mother, Cleota, played the violin and encouraged her son to take up that respectable, classical instrument. Miles would later learn that his genteel mother, whose sartorial splendor he took as a model, was also well versed in the decidedly more homely musical phrases of the blues."
