I cannot imagine seeing this live. So incredible. They knew one another's changes so well. There is a reason this quintet is considered the greatest jazz lineup ever.
i saw this band live over 30 times !! lucky me ,,i was 20 in 67 ,village vanguard ,tuesday through sunday i went every nite every set ,miles played the vanguard like 4 times a year ,,,it was beyond great ,,
After watching Herbies lecture, i tried to find the moment when Miles turnes around the "unexpected" chord (17:40) Hancock had played. Its just so intimate and beautiful. That one moment of only miles carrying on ... thats how babies are made!
@@neocolors I'd argue his memory of which tune this happened on may be a bit foggy after 50 years. I browsed all bootlegs of Miles concerts in 1969 and the only one I heard So What played was in Berkeley. Miles doesn't even solo on that one. Here on Round Midnight, it's clear Miles was going for some kind resolution at the end of the section A repeat, when Herbie plays this colorful chord behind him. Both pause, Miles even takes his hand off the trumpet, then he answers to Herbie and keeps going into section B. Herbie re-joins him a bit later, around the 5th bar of section B, in the descending chords line. I'm pretty sure this is the right spot Herbie was commenting on in his speech.
I get nothing but chills hearing the most over the top ground breaking Jazz group ever ...like a comet from deep space flying by earth....never to pass by again...
I mean, wow. They simply were amazing. The folks in the audience who got this witnessed the absolute best musicianship available anywhere on the planet.
Yes, I know what you mean, I became a Miles Davis, impressive, in mid-late, 1950s I first Saw /heard, Miles davis,Quintet, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK in 1960. Sorry for being boringly nostalgic . Anyway, Peace to all !!
They took this music to an incredible place and sustained it. We are thankful for every recorded note. This is the art of the infinite past, present and future simultaneously. It is at once timeless and for all times. A voyage which never began and will never end.
Right out of the gate, Miles is on fire. And young Tony...I get the feeling that Tony was still.mee to the band, and that Miles was energized by what he was doing.
Look at all the sidemen Miles used over the years. Most become band leaders/composers/arrangers in their own right. What a world wide book of music Miles is responsible for. One of the GOAT
this shit is so fukin good, omg. listen to the interplay between mr hancock and mr shorter, starting around 9mims in, till at least about 13ish mins. and then on top of that, mr williams is entering the conversation all over the place, while mr carter holds it all down...i mean...ser
It's not exactly half time (50% slower) where the half note becomes the quarter. It is a 75% tempo decrease where the dotted eight becomes the quarter. Slightly trickier and way more subtle.
I wish people would also imitate the sensitivity of the rhythm section, the way Miles starts it off, but doesn't stay on for too long, the sensitivity of all of the musicians in general. I came here after listening to Wynton and crew pay tribute to Miles Birth of the Cool, and decided, heck, why not listen to the real thing.
Saw this same group at royce hall university california los angeles and shelly's manne hole in hollywood in the mid- sixties. Incredible and scary. I will never forget it!!
That rendition of Gingerbread Boy is so intense, honest, interconnected and brilliant - each player comes to the table with their very best stuff and then some - its deeply moving and the collective picture is Wow. How did Tony Williams come up with this stuff at age 22 or whatever he was? MILES DAVIS put this thing together.“When Miles walked off the stage .... clean out of sight now...” (Eddie Jefferson lyric)
even Tony's hi-hat [29:50] seems to Jump For Joy in response to the wild inventiveness around it. i was at the Hammersmith Odeon concert in London during that tour but too bad for me for that the concert was not recorded.
Brilliant concert and everything, also the camera. I even listen to it while making yoga. There's another upload of it on you tube and i only can repeat myself: 'how delicious and precious'!!
I seen the 'Miles Davis Story' in Boston somewhere GBH Pubic Radio' sponsored the one night premier of the movie. Clips of this show are in it mostly Agitation,the first tune. I flipped out! When they went away from it I flipped! Lol. Just knowing that this exists was so gratifying to know. I'm not sure if this is the show that they show on Ken Burns Jazz it's probably this one!? If so I saw that first by 2 whole years Wich means I mixed those two occasions together... Lol,I'm a goof! Finally seeing these is there entirety is the most gratifying experience everytime I watch and listen. Wayne Shorter kicks ASS on all of the videos of the Quintet especially THIS. He's really smooth on this night! I love, believe it or not,when it mellows on Footprints and Agitation when the drums drop out. I'm a drummer and Tony is in my Top 5 always changing from one to five depending on the day. Didn't like it because he did it a lot on this but when he plays it's intense
morningblue haha... Very cosmic indeed. I loved all ofWayne's solo's on this and I'd have to agree with that statement. The tempo change is great too. Mellow to insane,to the Moon then.. fuckin PLUTO and Beyond!
Miles traveled with the same repertory and arrangements for concerts in Paris (Wynton Kelly, Sonny Stitt).. prefer them because Kelly and Stitt remain attached to, or guided by, the standards (Round Midnight, Autumn Leaves, etc.) whereas Shorter and Hancock dispense with them from the first bar of their improvisations.
Wrote an entire chapter of my dissertation on this performance, and you know what? I could have written THE WHOLE DISSERTATION on this, and still only scratched the surface. ua-cam.com/video/-NSJtCdlhe4/v-deo.html Miles Davis That slender, violent, poetic, frightening, brilliant night-black man, with the stance of a boxer, the grace of a toreador, and a glare that said “prove it” & “show me something new”; who always heard everything, yet always heard beyond; who could hear past the present, past the future, to alternate possibilities, and the stark, cold, lovely music on the dark side of the moon. --cjs. 2.2.03 Piano Press, 5.15.03
Does anyone know why was Miles touching his ear so often? Was it because of he wanted to tell something to Herbie? I am just curious about it if anyone knows. Thank you
It is not a sample of the bests but also this concert is a summit of showing how the young jazz musiciens had ultimate capabilities which unfortunately we can not have and see nowadays...
Yea I mean with Kamasi Washington, Christian Scott, Chris Potter, Brian Blade, etc... There is a-lot of good new music in literally every style of jazz music to. If your a traditionalist Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band is great.
The essence of jazz is getting your technique (both physical and mental) to the point where it allows you to improvise freely while keeping the form of the tune intact both in terms of harmony and rhythm. "Free jazz" on the other hand is total improv- do what thou wilt type of thing- and it rarely deserves a second hearing. The playing in this concert my friend, is jazz at it's finest. Perfect balance of freedom and restriction. It is not "free form", although it may, sometimes, sound like it is. It simply trascends the limitations that technical and/or "musical" problems of expression impose on less articulate players. It's a great exercise to try to sing the head of each tune to yourself while listening to the solos and in doing so you'll find out that those guys keep the form with religious fervour. It really wouldn't make any sense otherwise.
Not exactly, the basic fundament of it is composed. The song that starts at around 7:28 for example is called footprints. It is originally written by Wayne Shorter. If you look up the orignal (or at least earlier) version by him on his album "Adam's Apple" and then compare to a later arranged version of the same song on the album "Miles Smiles", you can hear how much work they put into the arrangement on that Album. They really reimagined the music into a completely different mood and ambient. From the Moment Miles gathered this version of his Quintet they spent a lot of time rehearsing. The thing is, they got to know each other so incredibly well (in a musical way) that from some point on they could change and experiment on stage with what they were doing at a level I think is mindblowing. That arrangement of footprints is still the basic idea of this recording, but they are in constant Dialogue about how the music is evolving while they are playing on stage. If Tony Williams at the drums is changing something, for example, all the rest of the group is reacting to it. Look at how the mood changes from 11:50 on, they all do it together even if none of them has a concrete part to play, they are aware of and reacting to each other. So coming back to your question. No, it is not exactly rehearsed in the format you listen to it now, but the fundament of it was once written out (even if just sketchwise) and rehearsed. And they rehearsed for the sake of being able to be flexible and improvise not only with the melodic line, but also with every element of the accompaniment. I think the best thing you can do is compare Shorter's original Footprints on 1966 "Adam's Apple" Album then check out the recording of the same song on 1967's "Miles Smiles" and then again come back to this video at 7:28. You'll notice that it is basically the same song, the general Idea is kept, but everything else (the drums, the bass, the piano and of course sax and trumpet) do completely different things than in other recordings. I promise you it's a fun ride to see how much the same basic Idea can change in releases that are less than 2 year's apart. Have fun doing so and I hope this gives you somewhat of an answer :)
@@Nmetajazz You need to refine your definition of Free Jazz. If you think that it doesn't deserve a second listen, then why did you post this video? Much of this is free, but there are absolutely some things that they use to work from, like tunes. The first thing Miles plays is from one of his records. He quotes it again when he returns for his second solo. At one point, they sound almost like one of Ornette Colman's groups. If you don't like free jazz, then just say it, and let people who can speak about it define what "deserves" second listening.
I will never tire of this. Rest In Peace, Wayne Shorter.
They are the greatest quintet ever. Enough said!!!!
I cannot imagine seeing this live. So incredible. They knew one another's changes so well. There is a reason this quintet is considered the greatest jazz lineup ever.
i saw this band live over 30 times !! lucky me ,,i was 20 in 67 ,village vanguard ,tuesday through sunday i went every nite every set ,miles played the vanguard like 4 times a year ,,,it was beyond great ,,
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You lucky guy!!!!!!
VERY lucky !!@@brucejeric6701
After watching Herbies lecture, i tried to find the moment when Miles turnes around the "unexpected" chord (17:40) Hancock had played. Its just so intimate and beautiful. That one moment of only miles carrying on ... thats how babies are made!
Ahhh! Thanks! I didn't catch it the first watch. What a genius improv. Wow
At 1:01:10 in this video: ua-cam.com/video/awboZv5IiTE/v-deo.html
He said it was on ‚so what‘, on the peak of Miles‘ Solo.
@@neocolors I'd argue his memory of which tune this happened on may be a bit foggy after 50 years. I browsed all bootlegs of Miles concerts in 1969 and the only one I heard So What played was in Berkeley. Miles doesn't even solo on that one. Here on Round Midnight, it's clear Miles was going for some kind resolution at the end of the section A repeat, when Herbie plays this colorful chord behind him. Both pause, Miles even takes his hand off the trumpet, then he answers to Herbie and keeps going into section B. Herbie re-joins him a bit later, around the 5th bar of section B, in the descending chords line. I'm pretty sure this is the right spot Herbie was commenting on in his speech.
@@neocolors I imagine it happens more than you think. But it makes this rendition of Round Midnight special...
Tony Williams !
17:43 herbie's mistake and miles' amazing improvisation
I get nothing but chills hearing the most over the top ground breaking Jazz group ever ...like a comet from deep space flying by earth....never to pass by again...
The tempo change @1:30 Is mesmerizing...Just listen to that!
Great bop! Saw all except Miles later, in V.S.O.P.; Tony in Lifetime; & Wayne in Weather Report!
20th century music at it's peak
Haha man Tony really played SO LOUD. Just look at him dig in! I love this so much
He wasnt fucking around that day for damn sure lol
& dig that TINY drumset (by modern standards)...
Their European concerts were just astounding...you'll never see this again, ever.
Agreed!
This is 50 YEARS AGO, and it sounds like tomorrow. How the hell???
VISION. Some others CLEARLY are PUT ON ARTISTS...I don't care WHAT their family name is....!
Because this music is eternal just like the old classical music. How deaf are those that will not hear.
One of the greatest jazz bands in the history of jazz music
Without question the most technically accomplished, most creative and most exciting band jazz has seen-still Miles ahead.
I mean, wow. They simply were amazing. The folks in the audience who got this witnessed the absolute best musicianship available anywhere on the planet.
Miles 2nd Quintet was a Jem!
The gift that keeps on giving.
You were correct in more ways than you intended..
It now GIVES in a color upload..
So..
This band is miles ahead of today...
To see Miles in concert was a life changing experience.
Yes, I know what you mean, I became a Miles Davis, impressive, in mid-late, 1950s
I first Saw /heard, Miles davis,Quintet, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK in 1960.
Sorry for being boringly nostalgic .
Anyway, Peace to all !!
Dare call it the greatest moment on human history
You wanna see it in color?
Very realistic.
00:00 intro
00:30 Agitation (Miles Davis)
07:28 Footprints (Wayne Shorter)
16:35 ‘Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)
25:05 Ginger Bread Boy (Jimmy Heath)
32:41 Theme (Miles Davis)
32:51 outro
Thank you!
Max Roach will always be my favorite drummer. But, man, Tony Williams never fail to amaze me.
Yes, I know what you mean.
They took this music to an incredible place and sustained it. We are thankful for every recorded note. This is the art of the infinite past, present and future simultaneously. It is at once timeless and for all times. A voyage which never began and will never end.
Perfectly expressed.
Right out of the gate, Miles is on fire. And young Tony...I get the feeling that Tony was still.mee to the band, and that Miles was energized by what he was doing.
Best band ever assembled. Ever!
its so freaking insane out of this world energy... will never EVER EVER BE DUPLICATED,.....
Al Libowitz Ever^7
Realmente impresionante
Lo amo
Los amo
Tony❤
Look at all the sidemen Miles used over the years.
Most become band leaders/composers/arrangers in their own right.
What a world wide book of music Miles is responsible for.
One of the GOAT
Miles n Shorter duble FANTAZY
Tony ❤️
Watching this, was like someone giving me oxygen
This is, in fact, a brilliant set.
For all the newbies like me, set list seems to be Agitation, Footprints, "Round Midnight, Gingerbread Boy and The Theme
this shit is so fukin good, omg.
listen to the interplay between mr hancock and mr shorter, starting around 9mims in, till at least about 13ish mins. and then on top of that, mr williams is entering the conversation all over the place, while mr carter holds it all down...i mean...ser
Thank God it was recorded.
God gave these guys a great talent!!!!
My favorite moment is at 1:29 when they hear Miles hinting at the half-time and they ease into it.
Exactly! Like bringing a heavy down hill train quickly into control.
It's not exactly half time (50% slower) where the half note becomes the quarter. It is a 75% tempo decrease where the dotted eight becomes the quarter. Slightly trickier and way more subtle.
I wish people would also imitate the sensitivity of the rhythm section, the way Miles starts it off, but doesn't stay on for too long, the sensitivity of all of the musicians in general. I came here after listening to Wynton and crew pay tribute to Miles Birth of the Cool, and decided, heck, why not listen to the real thing.
Saw this same group at royce hall university california los angeles and shelly's manne hole in hollywood in the mid- sixties. Incredible and scary. I will never forget it!!
Wow. Jealous. Born too late for everything but the fucking Kardashians...yayyyyy
That rendition of Gingerbread Boy is so intense, honest, interconnected and brilliant - each player comes to the table with their very best stuff and then some - its deeply moving and the collective picture is Wow.
How did Tony Williams come up with this stuff at age 22 or whatever he was? MILES DAVIS put this thing together.“When Miles walked off the stage .... clean out of sight now...” (Eddie Jefferson lyric)
Love how Miles walks off the stage after he’s done and let’s Wayne shine w/o the distraction
A masterful confab of Wizards in a skull session on another channel in a fluent flux of hipness!!!!
Modern jazz at its best.
REST IN PEACE AND LOVE, WAYNE SHORTER!
Unreal. Such amazing control and timing.
even Tony's hi-hat [29:50] seems to Jump For Joy in response to the wild inventiveness around it.
i was at the Hammersmith Odeon concert in London during that tour but too bad for me for that the
concert was not recorded.
❤
these cats are still THE contemporary
weirdly true, societal maxima?...
This is timeless music, the concept of contemporary cannot be applied, in my opinion
Absolut nice. Krásne.
You can see the beauty of improvisation in these musics. Love it❤
Excellent
Thats the lineup,no doubt!
The rapport is just scintillating
Beautiful quintet 😎😎😎
There are lots of recordings and a few videos of that tour, and the band sounded different every night.
Yes!
Tony Williams hangs 10 on the surfboard the entire set . . .
The only music in the world !❤️💯
I always see Miles' Ferraris when I hear this quintet.
Both TOPS!
It''s true !
AMAZING concert !
smooth and sweet like a good meal.
Perfect!!!!!!!!
OMG. Great performance. cool.
Jewell!!
Amacing!!
Brilliant concert and everything, also the camera.
I even listen to it while making yoga.
There's another upload of it on you tube and i only can repeat myself: 'how delicious and precious'!!
Ultimate jazz ensemble for real! couldn't find better words,that's awesome!
Goosebumps..........goosebumps.
Jazz Masters at their best! At the 25:00 min mark, I think this is the Best recording of Gingerbread Boy! You be the judge!
still.the.benchmark.
cool and smooth
Man, seeing those bow ties in '67 shows Miles is still catering somewhat to the ofays. Guaranteed by early '68 all that stuff was trashed (forever).
Shorter is great
It helps having that rhythm section
I seen the 'Miles Davis Story' in Boston somewhere GBH Pubic Radio' sponsored the one night premier of the movie. Clips of this show are in it mostly Agitation,the first tune. I flipped out! When they went away from it I flipped! Lol. Just knowing that this exists was so gratifying to know. I'm not sure if this is the show that they show on Ken Burns Jazz it's probably this one!? If so I saw that first by 2 whole years Wich means I mixed those two occasions together... Lol,I'm a goof! Finally seeing these is there entirety is the most gratifying experience everytime I watch and listen. Wayne Shorter kicks ASS on all of the videos of the Quintet especially THIS. He's really smooth on this night! I love, believe it or not,when it mellows on Footprints and Agitation when the drums drop out. I'm a drummer and Tony is in my Top 5 always changing from one to five depending on the day. Didn't like it because he did it a lot on this but when he plays it's intense
impresionante, el mejor quinteto de la historia
26:50 space age blues..... I think this is one of Wayne's greatest solos
morningblue haha... Very cosmic indeed. I loved all ofWayne's solo's on this and I'd have to agree with that statement. The tempo change is great too. Mellow to insane,to the Moon then.. fuckin PLUTO and Beyond!
Funny how he repeats what he played at 2:28 at 26:50.
RIP WAYNE SHORTER! Been listening to Wayne for 25 years. Soundtrack of life, and beyond.
After all of this genius, Miles Davis goes to the electric music idiom and owns that.....just because he could.
No lo habia escuchado, espectacular!! gracias por subirlo!!!
It's in color now
Excellence
haha what a trip...
thanx Mr Stavropoulos for the upload.....check his drumming out Stavropoulos is a kick ass Drummer
Thank you!
25:35 that right hand!
Miles traveled with the same repertory and arrangements for concerts in Paris (Wynton Kelly, Sonny Stitt).. prefer them because Kelly and Stitt remain attached to, or guided by, the standards (Round Midnight, Autumn Leaves, etc.) whereas Shorter and Hancock dispense with them from the first bar of their improvisations.
Most Holy Family Monastery
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Wrote an entire chapter of my dissertation on this performance, and you know what? I could have written THE WHOLE DISSERTATION on this, and still only scratched the surface.
ua-cam.com/video/-NSJtCdlhe4/v-deo.html
Miles Davis
That slender, violent, poetic, frightening, brilliant night-black man,
with the stance of a boxer,
the grace of a toreador,
and a glare that said
“prove it” &
“show me something new”;
who always heard everything,
yet always heard beyond;
who could hear
past the present,
past the future,
to alternate possibilities,
and the stark, cold, lovely music
on the dark side of the moon.
--cjs. 2.2.03
Piano Press, 5.15.03
Μπραβο Γιαννη, που ανεβασες αυτο το διαμαντι
In a way, Miles Davis is boss for just walking off stage after his trumpet session
a real SOS do drummers that want to level up
3:40 ❤
Does anyone know why was Miles touching his ear so often? Was it because of he wanted to tell something to Herbie? I am just curious about it if anyone knows. Thank you
👍
It is not a sample of the bests but also this concert is a summit of showing how the young jazz musiciens had ultimate capabilities which unfortunately we can not have and see nowadays...
Plenty of fire right now. Just saw some footage from Robert Glasper's birthday party, and Herbie Hancock sat in.
Yea I mean with Kamasi Washington, Christian Scott, Chris Potter, Brian Blade, etc... There is a-lot of good new music in literally every style of jazz music to. If your a traditionalist Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band is great.
I can't believe a guy with gray hair would say something like this!
Wrong in every sense of the word haha
I think the meaning of this is: the jazz they were playing was innovative, was creating in terms of what constituted jazz, and not just compositions
My friend wants to know, is this rehearsed or just plain improvising? Love to hear your thoughts on the video. I think is total improvasion.
The essence of jazz is getting your technique (both physical and mental) to the point where it allows you to improvise freely while keeping the form of the tune intact both in terms of harmony and rhythm.
"Free jazz" on the other hand is total improv- do what thou wilt type of thing- and it rarely deserves a second hearing.
The playing in this concert my friend, is jazz at it's finest. Perfect balance of freedom and restriction. It is not "free form", although it may, sometimes, sound like it is. It simply trascends the limitations that technical and/or "musical" problems of expression impose on less articulate players. It's a great exercise to try to sing the head of each tune to yourself while listening to the solos and in doing so you'll find out that those guys keep the form with religious fervour. It really wouldn't make any sense otherwise.
Not exactly, the basic fundament of it is composed. The song that starts at around 7:28 for example is called footprints. It is originally written by Wayne Shorter. If you look up the orignal (or at least earlier) version by him on his album "Adam's Apple" and then compare to a later arranged version of the same song on the album "Miles Smiles", you can hear how much work they put into the arrangement on that Album. They really reimagined the music into a completely different mood and ambient. From the Moment Miles gathered this version of his Quintet they spent a lot of time rehearsing. The thing is, they got to know each other so incredibly well (in a musical way) that from some point on they could change and experiment on stage with what they were doing at a level I think is mindblowing. That arrangement of footprints is still the basic idea of this recording, but they are in constant Dialogue about how the music is evolving while they are playing on stage. If Tony Williams at the drums is changing something, for example, all the rest of the group is reacting to it. Look at how the mood changes from 11:50 on, they all do it together even if none of them has a concrete part to play, they are aware of and reacting to each other.
So coming back to your question. No, it is not exactly rehearsed in the format you listen to it now, but the fundament of it was once written out (even if just sketchwise) and rehearsed. And they rehearsed for the sake of being able to be flexible and improvise not only with the melodic line, but also with every element of the accompaniment. I think the best thing you can do is compare Shorter's original Footprints on 1966 "Adam's Apple" Album then check out the recording of the same song on 1967's "Miles Smiles" and then again come back to this video at 7:28. You'll notice that it is basically the same song, the general Idea is kept, but everything else (the drums, the bass, the piano and of course sax and trumpet) do completely different things than in other recordings. I promise you it's a fun ride to see how much the same basic Idea can change in releases that are less than 2 year's apart. Have fun doing so and I hope this gives you somewhat of an answer :)
@@Nmetajazz You need to refine your definition of Free Jazz. If you think that it doesn't deserve a second listen, then why did you post this video? Much of this is free, but there are absolutely some things that they use to work from, like tunes. The first thing Miles plays is from one of his records. He quotes it again when he returns for his second solo. At one point, they sound almost like one of Ornette Colman's groups. If you don't like free jazz, then just say it, and let people who can speak about it define what "deserves" second listening.
Is this an available recording?
@@Nmetajazz since when is free jazz just doing what you want😂?!
i wonder what hi hat stand Tony is using on the live.......
Walberg and Auge made for Gretsch
😃💙🌱🌼
Buenaso
¿Porqué siempre se toca el oido derecho Davis?
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