Miles Davis MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Miles Davis? Miles Davis is an ISTP personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/sx - 584 in Enneagram, RCUEI in Big 5, SLI in Socionics.
The following text regarding the distinction between ISTPs and INTPs is from @Berx: "Ti is usually harder to spot in ISTPs than in INTPs because of the orientation of their middle axis. Even though Ti seeks principles that are universally valid, auxiliary Se gives ISTPs a sense that the validity of these internal principles are subject to the demands of the present external situation, and so reality itself becomes the proving ground for the principle. Ideally for the ISTP, principles are not explained, they are shown and demonstrated. Because of this, ISTPs are perfectly happy bypassing any verbal expression of an idea if an external manifestation of that idea proves to be more illuminating. This is why they often come across simply as less extraverted ESTPs instead of less abstract INTPs. We see the Se and the introversion, but not the Ti." This is the case with Miles Davis. His notions of the mechanics of music simply through what he did in the music itself. Occasionally, we do see Miles Davis more concretely articulate ideas through Ti, for example in this clip: https://youtu.be/i03h0GxVps4?t=1251 "You could tell that those shock treatments had, like, a split second behind the rhythm, and he was a guy who played all even notes if he played fast and loud. ... When you get shock treatments, you can't [synchronize] ... it's like a micro[second] behind." Here Miles Davis is perfectly demonstrating what Carl Jung has said about the Ti type: "His style is usually loaded and complicated by all sorts of accessories, qualifications, saving clauses, doubts, etc., which spring from his exacting scrupulousness." In other words, Jung is saying that Ti is scrupulous and mechanically precise which is exactly what Miles Davis is demonstrating in that quote. However, for an ISTP musician, a simple verbal explanation of mechanics pales in comparison to a tangible demonstration, where the true meaning of the mechanics is defined by immediate context, in real time.
Biography
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American Jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, and one of the most famous and important musicians ever to have worked in the genre. It's impossible to do justice to his long and innovative career, so we're going to try to sum up the highlights. To Make a Long Story Short: he started as a bebop musician playing trumpet with Charlie Parker, before ending up at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz after The '40s, helping pioneer subgenres such as cool jazz, modal jazz, Jazz Fusion and jazz-rock, and by his death he had become one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century. Basically he can be seen as something like the Nirvana of jazz: EVERYBODY gets into him at a given moment.
