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Cleo Henry is a pseudonym of Miles Davis and Gil Evans used on the tune Boplicity on the album Birth of the Cool. It is the name of Miles Davis' mother, and was used so Miles could release the tune in a different music publishing house than the one he was signed with. [1]

References

  1. ^ Richard Cook (January 2007). It's about that Time: Miles Davis on and Off Record. Oxford University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-19-532266-8.