Lauren Parks and Jas Gary Pearson have turned the childhood home of music legend Miles Davis into a community catalyst. Story By Daniel DurchholzVisuals By Michael Thomas Jazz music plays softly inside a small house at North 17th Street and Kansas Avenue in East St. Louis. Located on a largely empty block, it’s a nondescript structure, a single family home that sat empty and in disrepair for at…
Stay cool this summer with a visit to jazz great Miles Davis’ childhood home, now the House of Miles East Saint Louis (HOME), founded by the nonprofit of the same name.
“Being in her makes me think of my grandmother,” Cheryl Davis said as she looked around and walked the newly rehabbed first floor of the House of Miles on Thursday in East St. Louis, Illinois. Thanks to tireless work from a team led by House of Miles President Lauren A. Parks, what was once the childhood home of Cheryl’s father, Miles Davis – is now a…
If you know jazz history, there is no conversation about the genre that doesn’t include the late great composer and trumpeter Miles Davis. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see artifacts from where he grew up and other pieces of his journey in one place? One organization is in the process of making this happen. A nonprofit agency called HOME (House of Miles East…