Jazz icon Miles Davis transfixed us with sleek, silky notes that came from out of this world -- haunting notes which he played with every one of his senses. He was so much more than a trumpeter: he was a shaman and a hypnotist. No one had his sense or sensitivity for time and space. He was ferociously independent but he also put a premium on collaboration. And he never stopped wrestling with his demons. "I have to change," he said. "It's like a curse."