Miles Davis

Miles Davis used several custom Committees throughout his career, as documented in this Wordpress article. The article features one such trumpet, while linking to three others.

Source One (Wordpress):

Miles Davis played a variety of custom-made Martin Committee trumpets throughout his career; in the photo is a Green custom-made, engraved Martin trumpet with a Conn 5 mouthpiece with serial no. 707737. His name is engraved on the trumpet.

Source Two:

A Martin trumpet used by one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed and innovative musicians, the legenday Miles Davis. With an engraving on the front reading The Martin Committee Elkhart-Indiana Miles Davis, this extraordinary piece comes with a letter of provenance dated May 19, 1999 from Davis' son, Gregory, which states To Whom It May Concern I Gregory Davis confirm that this Martin trumpet serial #LM 713071 was used by my father Miles Davis through the late sixty's to the early seventy's. Very Truly Yours, Gregory Davis [sic] The overall condition of the horn is in excellent condition and comes with its own case as well as a black and white poster of Davis holding the trumpet.

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Here’s a trumpet from former NBA star Dominique Wilkins. The Skinner Gallery in Boston started the bidding at $20,000 back in ’07 for a Miles Davis trumpet.

Source Four:

Martin Committee trumpet, serial number 203005. Dark green metallic finish, owned and played by miles Davis. This trumpet was given to the son of Davis' friend in 1966, boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson. Davis was a boxing fan and befriended Sugar Ray and his wife, Edna. It is accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Sugar Ray's son, Ray Robinson, who was personally given the trumpet. The bell of the trumpet reads, "The Martin Committee Model / Elkhart / IND / USA" with ornate floral etchings. Keys are made from mother of pearl. As was typical of Davis, the mouth piece is intentionally bent upward and just below the mouthpiece, where Davis' thumb would have rested, shows signs of wear. (est. $10,000-$20,000)

Davis used a trio of custom-made "Moon and Stars" T3460s, as featured in this September 4, 2019 Christie's article promoting the October 29, 2019 auction of Davis' blue "Moon and Stars" T3460.

Davis continued to record, perform and innovate in the 1960s and early 1970s, absorbing influences from Stockhausen to soul. By 1975, however, a combination of exhaustion, personal demons and drug addiction forced him to take time out. He wouldn’t pick up a musical instrument again in earnest until the early 1980s, which was when the blue-lacquer ‘Moon and Stars’ trumpet, coming to the Exceptional Sale on 29 October at Christie’s in New York, was created for him.

(...) The Committee horn being auctioned was one of a set of three conceived by designer Larry Ramirez, who was a part-time jazz trumpeter himself. At Davis’s request, one was coloured red, one blue and one black — each of them decorated with a gilt moon and stars, and with the word ‘Miles’ inscribed inside the bell.

Ramirez lived in Denver, which — as good luck would have it — was where Davis was playing one of his first comeback concerts, in the summer of 1981. The designer was able to hand-deliver the first two trumpets he’d finished (the blue and the black) to Davis’s motel room one night.

Ramirez told the story, in later life, of the nerves he’d felt at the moment Davis handed him back one of the horns and said, ‘You play, don’t you?’. He duly played a tentative passage from Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and remembers his relief when Davis observed, ‘Man, you play pretty good’.

(...) As for the two other ‘Moon and Stars’ horns made at the same time, the red trumpet has remained in the star’s family since his death in 1991, while the black one is buried at Davis’s side in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

Miles Davis Started on a Selmer Grand Prix Bb trumpet