Miles Davis's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter. The birth-card coordinate for May 26 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2006 Performers — Miles Davis

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Miles Davis's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Miles Davis. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

Live 6 of Clubs meaning page

Miles Davis in the public record

He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In a career spanning nearly five decades, Davis was at the forefront of several major stylistic developments in jazz, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and jazz fusion. His legacy extends into rock, funk, classical, and hip-hop. Born into an affluent family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens. He left to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly afterwards, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music under Prestige Records.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Miles Davis (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Queen of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Miles Davis, and not a forecast of induction.

You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next. You're wired to care with depth and intuition—you read what people feel before they say it and you tend to it. You embody emotional wisdom, offering others a felt sense of being truly seen and held. Nurturing is your mastery.

After a five-year retirement due to poor health, Davis resumed his career in the 1980s, employing younger musicians and pop sounds on albums such as The Man with the Horn (1981), You're Under Arrest (1985) and Tutu (1986).

Paired on shared wording: career, you're. This line comes from the Venus position of the 6♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records, and recorded the album 'Round About Midnight in 1955.
2. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s.
3. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish music–influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959).
4. The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold more than five million copies in the U.S. alone and 6.4 million copies worldwide.

Other inductees with this card

• Alan White — 2026 Performers with Oasis
• Alec John Such — 2018 Performers with Bon Jovi
• Bob Weir — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• Chris Wood — 2004 Performers with Traffic
• Colin Blunstone — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
• Cordell Mosson — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Cornell Gunter — 1987 Performers with The Coasters
• Dee Dee Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
• Dickey Betts — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• Don Henley — 1998 Performers with Eagles
• Eddie Jobson — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
• Eric Clapton — 1992 Performers with The Yardbirds; 1993 Performers with Cream; 2000 Performers
• 13 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Miles Davis's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. May 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Miles Davis's dates come from?

Birth date 1926-05-26 is the day-precision date on Miles Davis's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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