How the hell can Michael Henderson play the same thing over and over forever and yet make it sound new and fresh with every repetition? WOW... And Al Foster is layin' it down DEEP. This was one of the GREATEST rhythm sections ever.
This is absolutely the master of them all. Futuristic Miles took them all beyond the stars. He is the Prince of darkness. His music is dark matter, black holes, it sucks you in deep. Thank you Miles for making life bearable when you hear all the crap out there.
Performance Musical Art. I am imagining having this whole concert in my living room on large HD screen, surround sound, incese and candles and dancing naked with abandon. YEAH. Until then, I have UA-cam. I thank God I found this tonight. Get up and danced ya'll
This music is one amazing groove.....it is far-in and very very cool indeed. I love Miles electric period from 1970-1975......the best music of the 20th century.
without no doubt, this is my favourite most beloved period of Miles that shit and and get up with it and on the corner session and live evil but this 73 ife version has everything I need
you are listening to the greatest composer of the 20th century. if anyone out there needs some Miles Davis fusion era music ask me ive got almost all his albums from that point in his career.
El video completo estaba antes por la red, sin embargo fue borrado. Ahora lo encuentro por ti y en partes. Algo es algo, por tu tiempo gracias. Saludos desde México Puebla.
This is a verry trance side of Miles ive never heared before. Thx for the post. Plugged my trumpet into a voice effects box for a band I was in a couple times. good fun but this is crazy awsome.
Yep, mine too...to hear Stern and Scofield straight tear it up with their over the top distorted bebop lines is friggin' awesome! That and I dig saxophonist Bill Evans. The energy and playing on the album is still fresh sounding! "Man With the Horn" is fantastic also!
@HendrixPrinceFlea89 Miles fusion era and avant-garde are the best compositions ever! Kind of blue is a classic, but Electric and Bitches brew make me travel to out of this world!
Bill Evan's description of Japanese brush paiting on the "Kind of Blue" liner notes is a good metaphor. Miles's bands were composing of the fly (sometimes with some tape manipulation being a part of the process). The tension between fully formed results and the risk inherent in that method make Miles' work stand out.
One of the last real contributors to imaginative jazz. Somehow nowadays we have loads of musicians who duck low to avoid getting shot at. Loads of dudes helping put jazz in a grave where classical music already resides. Are you one of them as well? It's time to PUT POP IN PLACE! Get that Jazz going!
@theillfrisch: That's Pete Cosey, who was with Miles's band from 1973 through '75, when they disbanded due to Miles's health problems of the late '70s. Pete is still active on the Jazz scene and leads the band The Chlldren of Agratha. Named for one of Miles's albums, the band is a repertoirey band featuring the music of Miles's electric period.
For the record, Bill Evans wrote most of 'Blue in Green' and is credited as a co-composer now. The intro to 'Flamenco Sketches' is based on Evans' composition from 'New Jazz Conceptions' called 'Peace Piece'. But Miles did compose 'All Blues', 'Freddie Freeloader', and the majority of 'So What' (the intro was reportedly written by Gil Evans).
Being in the "Miles Davis workshop" made you for life. Nobody knew who any of those guys you named were until Miles hired them. I'd hesitate to say he "stole" things.
BAD ASS!! Miles "bad ass" Davis ...in the throws of busting the walls of the Norm down to the ground... smoldering, crumbled, pulverized walls left piled-up in a heep. Thnx for the post, milesdewey!
I would tend to agree, especially on the mid seventies stuff where he doesn't play that much. But I would also say that something about Miles. . . whether it be his being really good at chosing the right people to combine, some musical hints he was able to give them, or whether it was some weird alchemy of his personality. . .made people do their best work with him.
Your kind of right, apparently the signal from the bug (which can only detect when and how he blows, not the fingering) is sent as a seperate channel to the normal mic, and hte two are mixed. Todat it's what is called a wet/dry mix, the 'wet' being the effct sound and the 'dry' is the straight mic sound.
I saw this band (1974-Teatro Municipal- Rio de Janeiro- Brazil): Miles, Trumpet & Keyb; Al Foster, drums; Dave Liebman, Tnor & soprano sax, Michael Henderson, bass, Mtume, perc; Pete Cosey, guitar & perc; Reggie Lucas, wah-wah guitar; Dominique Gaulmont, guitar. Very Hot Suff! Paulinho Guitarra
Can I agree with both of you? I feel like Coltrane leads into Miles, yet at the same time they are undeniably different entities. In any case this is some dope music. Thanks for the upload!
Well take 'Kind of Blue', Miles composed the majority of the tunes and according to Adderley and Evans, Miles arranged and directed the musicians in studio. Evans is credited for bringing modal scales to Miles via Ravel and Debussy (which he did) but Miles was tuned into a lot of African musicians who were experimenting with modes as well. Miles was a great leader of bands from the Birth of the Cool group (as acknowledged by Gerry Mulligan), a quality not to be underrated.
First, let me thank MD for being so generous with these great Miles Davis video and making the effort to upload all of them. They are a real treat, but I have a request. Would you be able to upload them to Google Video? Google Video has a bigger screen AND it doesn't have a 10 minute time limit which means you could upload the Montreux '73 gig with no interruptions. I know you're probably busy but that would be a great gift to Miles fans everywhere.
Hey this IS performance art...sit back and let them take you for the trip. Dance....move....get some of those shades like Miles and look at your bright futures....I am going to check out Part 2 o join me!
absolutely fantastic. it's very rude when you get to 9:56, however. this is the magic music...i've said in the past that elect. Miles is, perhaps, my fave music..i'll say again!
While I completely agree with you for them most part, there is still some underground stuff that is still amazing music and most of the bands thrive in the live setting. The jam scene, bands that took after the Dead and Phish. Some of the better ones know like Umphrey's McGee and moe. are unique and progressive bands and most all of them are self produced so they have not been tainted by the music business. And for more jazzy look up Medeski, Martin and Wood and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.
Hello Im a trumpet player and I play my trumpet with effects sometimes I have always wondered what it the mic miles is using in this clip the model name of the mic ? why is it positioned by the mouthpiece? If anyone knows the answers please send me a note thanks for posting this
Its a wah pick-up in his mouthpiece. He has two pedals. he didnt play into a mic unless he was "off". There isnt a mic connected to his horn. He is amplified.
@realmadridvideos Miles' music wasn't about Miles. Paradoxically, it was all about Miles. It's not his playing (as great as it is) that people 1,000 years from now will remember--it's the music he was able to draw out of the musicians in his band to create a specific and sublime sound that people will be talking about.
Bach & Mozart wd be bored about all that sheet music they were both great improvisers. about Miles: he was a true shaman, take my word, as I'm a wizard, too, in my own right. he was uncanny, beyond good & evil.
As for the quality question, maybe we just have differnt tasts. Sure stuff like the Mahavishnu Orchestra can be intense and exciting, but they were basically just a big jam band compared to the risky high wire acts that Miles was putting on during the sixties and early seventies. If you just want adrynalyne from your music, I'd suggest that Ozzy Osborne guy.
Man, you listen to this and wonder what happened to modern jazz? Thank Kenny G for perverting hard jazz and fusion into a homogenized pile called fusak/smooth jazz! At least I got Miles' "Star People" on CD to remind me of what music can be!
Fair point about discovering their talents, but you got to admit that Coltrane did hisa own homework in terms of developing music and creating this for himself and his groups. Miles gave him exposure, he even inspired him to be more innovative, but coltrane was always working on HIS music by himself, with marvelous results if i might add. in '64, Coltrane beat miles in all the critic's polls.
so your saying that Miles's compositions, his band-leading, his completely new trumpet sound compared to Gillespy and his predecessors, his newe ideas about jazz-rock fusion, his 60's quintets invention of 'time no changes', to name a few things, haven't changed music at all? obviously all th epeople you mentioned have made contributios as well, but I think it's safe to say Miles did his fair share..
Charles Mingus is a much better contender to being better than Miles than those other guys whose names have been thrown around here. I'm not convinced that Mingus expanded the vocabulary of Jazz as much as Miles, but he was a pretty imposing talent. "Root and Blues" is awesome.
All those guys might have been "just fine" as you say, but I just can't see them developing into the great artists they did without Miles. Remember all the stories of Coltrain getting booed off stage for his excessive soloing? But Miles kept him around, allowing him to grow up artistically while playing with the preimmenent Jazz combo of his day. The exceptions would be Bill Evans and Joe Zawanil, but their CAREERS certainly benefited from Miles.
I know that's what any decent jazz performance is about, but Miles pushed both parts of that equation further than anybody else. Maybe it's the classical (via Gerry Milligan and Bill Evans) influence on his work or maybe its the influence of highly structured torchy ballads instead of blues (always there), but I hear a sense of order in Miles that I don't hear very often anywhere else. I'm not denigrating any Miles's collegues, but rarely hit the heights without Miles they did with him.
I must say, though fasion has little to do with music in my honest opinion (not perception), this has got to be the snazziest dressing groups of cats that can play shit you dream up and can never express. This is the music I've been hearing in my head since childhood.
Almost. During "Tune in 5" Miles and Mtume were doing abstract shit on the organ and drum machine. Crowd got annoyed booed him, set ends, and the next set is this. All on the Montreux box set
Do I think Miles's body of work stands head and shoulders above Coltraine's, Evans's, Wayne Shorter's, etc? Yes. That doesn't mean those guys didn't contribute a lot to Miles's work, but it does mean that something about Miles's creative process or his musical guidance did something for them. BTW I do play a couple of instruments, but I wouldn't call myself a musicion. But who cares? Educated enthusiasts are more than qualified to weigh in.
Its so blatenly obvious, if i had to choose one man's music to listen to for rest of my life itd be Miles. It aint even close. Well, mabe Hendrix, but still.... Id have so many different types of music, all of which are being played at the highest level. Shit id even be able to listen to some hip hop!
Nobody is saying anything I don't know or mentioning any records I don't have (those are certainly all wonderful records by the way). I just think Miles's work is better, more challenging, and more original. There's a sense of risk in his work but also a sense of balance that nobody else quite got.
How the hell can Michael Henderson play the same thing over and over forever and yet make it sound new and fresh with every repetition? WOW... And Al Foster is layin' it down DEEP. This was one of the GREATEST rhythm sections ever.
This is absolutely the master of them all. Futuristic Miles took them all beyond the stars. He is the Prince of darkness. His music is dark matter, black holes, it sucks you in deep. Thank you Miles for making life bearable when you hear all the crap out there.
Performance Musical Art. I am imagining having this whole concert in my living room on large HD screen, surround sound, incese and candles and dancing naked with abandon. YEAH.
Until then, I have UA-cam. I thank God I found this tonight. Get up and danced ya'll
Best band performance ever and Miles, what a LEADER!
This music is one amazing groove.....it is far-in and very very cool indeed. I love Miles electric period from 1970-1975......the best music of the 20th century.
without no doubt, this is my favourite most beloved period of Miles
that shit and and get up with it and
on the corner session and live evil
but this 73 ife version has everything I need
Miles was a master and so were all the musicians he has played with.
Tremendous talent. Miles ahead of his time. Wonderful rhythm section helped create the mood.
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Saw him live on the pier in NYC in the 80's.
The filming is fantastic. I was early 70's!
He's so cool, oh man how can smeone be so calm and relaxed :) Really apperciate this guy and his works. Thank you Miles!
you are listening to the greatest composer of the 20th century. if anyone out there needs some Miles Davis fusion era music ask me ive got almost all his albums from that point in his career.
El video completo estaba antes por la red, sin embargo fue borrado. Ahora lo encuentro por ti y en partes. Algo es algo, por tu tiempo gracias. Saludos desde México Puebla.
17 people just don't understand Miles. Fantastic, I love this video!
This is a verry trance side of Miles ive never heared before. Thx for the post. Plugged my trumpet into a voice effects box for a band I was in a couple times. good fun but this is crazy awsome.
Yep, mine too...to hear Stern and Scofield straight tear it up with their over the top distorted bebop lines is friggin' awesome! That and I dig saxophonist Bill Evans. The energy and playing on the album is still fresh sounding! "Man With the Horn" is fantastic also!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS BEAUTIFUL MILES DAVIS SH**IT!!! Thank you, man, for posting it on UA-cam!
*****MILES LIVES!*****
Shiit still hot...aged very well indeed.
@HendrixPrinceFlea89 Miles fusion era and avant-garde are the best compositions ever! Kind of blue is a classic, but Electric and Bitches brew make me travel to out of this world!
Bill Evan's description of Japanese brush paiting on the "Kind of Blue" liner notes is a good metaphor. Miles's bands were composing of the fly (sometimes with some tape manipulation being a part of the process). The tension between fully formed results and the risk inherent in that method make Miles' work stand out.
One of the last real contributors to imaginative jazz. Somehow nowadays we have loads of musicians who duck low to avoid getting shot at. Loads of dudes helping put jazz in a grave where classical music already resides. Are you one of them as well? It's time to PUT POP IN PLACE! Get that Jazz going!
@theillfrisch: That's Pete Cosey, who was with Miles's band from 1973 through '75, when they disbanded due to Miles's health problems of the late '70s. Pete is still active on the Jazz scene and leads the band The Chlldren of Agratha. Named for one of Miles's albums, the band is a repertoirey band featuring the music of Miles's electric period.
For the record, Bill Evans wrote most of 'Blue in Green' and is credited as a co-composer now. The intro to 'Flamenco Sketches' is based on Evans' composition from 'New Jazz Conceptions' called 'Peace Piece'. But Miles did compose 'All Blues', 'Freddie Freeloader', and the majority of 'So What' (the intro was reportedly written by Gil Evans).
Audio from this concert is available on "The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux" box set. But the video really needs to released as a DVD!
Being in the "Miles Davis workshop" made you for life. Nobody knew who any of those guys you named were until Miles hired them. I'd hesitate to say he "stole" things.
its everywhere! beautiful music happening all the time just gotta keep your ears open ;)
My sweet lord!
Long live Miles..
BAD ASS!! Miles "bad ass" Davis ...in the throws of busting the walls of the Norm down to the ground... smoldering, crumbled, pulverized walls left piled-up in a heep. Thnx for the post, milesdewey!
Absolutely pure genius.
any one knows what the song is? I love this kind of stuff, minor key but groovy. Miles was beyond his own time...
It is called Ife: ua-cam.com/video/qlIwgFVSS6w/v-deo.html
I would tend to agree, especially on the mid seventies stuff where he doesn't play that much. But I would also say that something about Miles. . . whether it be his being really good at chosing the right people to combine, some musical hints he was able to give them, or whether it was some weird alchemy of his personality. . .made people do their best work with him.
Great solo by Miles Great avantguard music createing
Your kind of right, apparently the signal from the bug (which can only detect when and how he blows, not the fingering) is sent as a seperate channel to the normal mic, and hte two are mixed. Todat it's what is called a wet/dry mix, the 'wet' being the effct sound and the 'dry' is the straight mic sound.
I saw this band (1974-Teatro Municipal- Rio de Janeiro- Brazil): Miles, Trumpet & Keyb; Al Foster, drums; Dave Liebman, Tnor & soprano sax, Michael Henderson, bass, Mtume, perc; Pete Cosey, guitar & perc; Reggie Lucas, wah-wah guitar; Dominique Gaulmont, guitar. Very Hot Suff!
Paulinho Guitarra
Finally a discussion in wich nobody says "Hey i'm right and you must be dumb if you don't see it". I like it.
Can I agree with both of you? I feel like Coltrane leads into Miles, yet at the same time they are undeniably different entities.
In any case this is some dope music. Thanks for the upload!
No doubt...would luve to timetravel to that concert!
Well take 'Kind of Blue', Miles composed the majority of the tunes and according to Adderley and Evans, Miles arranged and directed the musicians in studio. Evans is credited for bringing modal scales to Miles via Ravel and Debussy (which he did) but Miles was tuned into a lot of African musicians who were experimenting with modes as well. Miles was a great leader of bands from the Birth of the Cool group (as acknowledged by Gerry Mulligan), a quality not to be underrated.
This is Ife...Amazing how many different versions there are of this song..
TOCA MUITO!!!
RAÇA UNIP!!!!
the best jazz musician ever
Miles is the baddest man to walk the planet. None gets badder.
Pure art!! Astonishing!!
First, let me thank MD for being so generous with these great Miles Davis video and making the effort to upload all of them. They are a real treat, but I have a request. Would you be able to upload them to Google Video? Google Video has a bigger screen AND it doesn't have a 10 minute time limit which means you could upload the Montreux '73 gig with no interruptions. I know you're probably busy but that would be a great gift to Miles fans everywhere.
Hey this IS performance art...sit back and let them take you for the trip. Dance....move....get some of those shades like Miles and look at your bright futures....I am going to check out Part 2 o join me!
absolutely fantastic. it's very rude when you get to 9:56, however. this is the magic music...i've said in the past that elect. Miles is, perhaps, my fave music..i'll say again!
believe a dvd of Tangelwood, Mass. show 69 or 70 has been released
While I completely agree with you for them most part, there is still some underground stuff that is still amazing music and most of the bands thrive in the live setting. The jam scene, bands that took after the Dead and Phish. Some of the better ones know like Umphrey's McGee and moe. are unique and progressive bands and most all of them are self produced so they have not been tainted by the music business. And for more jazzy look up Medeski, Martin and Wood and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.
my brother worked with Miles on the on the corner project. Do you have any footage or pics from that. Harold ivory Williams Jr
Hello
Im a trumpet player
and I play my trumpet with effects sometimes
I have always wondered what it the mic miles
is using in this clip
the model name of the mic ?
why is it positioned by the mouthpiece?
If anyone knows the answers
please send me a note
thanks for posting this
Thaks for uploading, do you also have the rest of the concert?
Its a wah pick-up in his mouthpiece. He has two pedals. he didnt play into a mic unless he was "off". There isnt a mic connected to his horn. He is amplified.
best dance music ever.
Really digging this.
Musicians listening to each other and creating in the moment...nobody is going to create that on their little cut and paste program!
Check out "Dark Magus" or "Black Beauty". They have similar line-ups.
@realmadridvideos Miles' music wasn't about Miles. Paradoxically, it was all about Miles. It's not his playing (as great as it is) that people 1,000 years from now will remember--it's the music he was able to draw out of the musicians in his band to create a specific and sublime sound that people will be talking about.
@aarfeld Interesting info, you mean "Agharta"?
Wow, He will love to hear that! I know Micheal and Urzala are from there. ut I didn.
,t know Harold was known there....Tell me more :-)
Bach & Mozart wd be bored about all that sheet music they were both great improvisers. about Miles: he was a true shaman, take my word, as I'm a wizard, too, in my own right. he was uncanny, beyond good & evil.
As for the quality question, maybe we just have differnt tasts. Sure stuff like the Mahavishnu Orchestra can be intense and exciting, but they were basically just a big jam band compared to the risky high wire acts that Miles was putting on during the sixties and early seventies. If you just want adrynalyne from your music, I'd suggest that Ozzy Osborne guy.
Song title is "Ife"
best music ever
you're absolutely right ...but do you know what the song is, exactly?
Absolutely correct; this is it!
Miles is the ultimate cool man.. I mean look at those shades man.. Where can i get me a pair.. ?
this is some tight music
Man, you listen to this and wonder what happened to modern jazz? Thank Kenny G for perverting hard jazz and fusion into a homogenized pile called fusak/smooth jazz! At least I got Miles' "Star People" on CD to remind me of what music can be!
those are quite the spaceman glasses
Fair point about discovering their talents, but you got to admit that Coltrane did hisa own homework in terms of developing music and creating this for himself and his groups. Miles gave him exposure, he even inspired him to be more innovative, but coltrane was always working on HIS music by himself, with marvelous results if i might add. in '64, Coltrane beat miles in all the critic's polls.
Yes ad ,amy others...do you know him?
so your saying that Miles's compositions, his band-leading, his completely new trumpet sound compared to Gillespy and his predecessors, his newe ideas about jazz-rock fusion, his 60's quintets invention of 'time no changes', to name a few things, haven't changed music at all? obviously all th epeople you mentioned have made contributios as well, but I think it's safe to say Miles did his fair share..
Charles Mingus is a much better contender to being better than Miles than those other guys whose names have been thrown around here. I'm not convinced that Mingus expanded the vocabulary of Jazz as much as Miles, but he was a pretty imposing talent. "Root and Blues" is awesome.
All those guys might have been "just fine" as you say, but I just can't see them developing into the great artists they did without Miles. Remember all the stories of Coltrain getting booed off stage for his excessive soloing? But Miles kept him around, allowing him to grow up artistically while playing with the preimmenent Jazz combo of his day. The exceptions would be Bill Evans and Joe Zawanil, but their CAREERS certainly benefited from Miles.
what studio album is this song also on?
thanks!
michael henderson at ronnie scotts sep 21-23 uk electric miles
Absolutely......................................
Jimi Hendix was going 2 b in this band but died.
I think just months before this concert.
bill from seattle
merci und respekt
thank you, man!!!
i was there it was magic
miles very angry though at first
Fuuuck missed that one. Peace!
And where is John McLaughlin? Is there any video with him and Miles of that era?
No, there's only Audio.
wow i love watching his hands.
does anyone know how he was able to use the wah-wah with his trumpet?
@thatsprettygood I read that it was also becuase he is very shy, hence i apparent aloofness and rudeness, this could be an extension of that.
I know that's what any decent jazz performance is about, but Miles pushed both parts of that equation further than anybody else. Maybe it's the classical (via Gerry Milligan and Bill Evans) influence on his work or maybe its the influence of highly structured torchy ballads instead of blues (always there), but I hear a sense of order in Miles that I don't hear very often anywhere else. I'm not denigrating any Miles's collegues, but rarely hit the heights without Miles they did with him.
Papa Miles .
Tripeando ...
amazing!
amen
@lukeswalls
Sorry, it's not an international forum, it's the comments section and anyone is free to comment in a language that they feel like.
miles owns!
its all about the wah wah trumpet hehehe
grand
@lukeswalls OK- thanks!
I must say, though fasion has little to do with music in my honest opinion (not perception), this has got to be the snazziest dressing groups of cats that can play shit you dream up and can never express. This is the music I've been hearing in my head since childhood.
Almost. During "Tune in 5" Miles and Mtume were doing abstract shit on the organ and drum machine. Crowd got annoyed booed him, set ends, and the next set is this. All on the Montreux box set
Miles is beyond any time... is... not was!
Do I think Miles's body of work stands head and shoulders above Coltraine's, Evans's, Wayne Shorter's, etc? Yes. That doesn't mean those guys didn't contribute a lot to Miles's work, but it does mean that something about Miles's creative process or his musical guidance did something for them. BTW I do play a couple of instruments, but I wouldn't call myself a musicion. But who cares? Educated enthusiasts are more than qualified to weigh in.
agree
Its so blatenly obvious, if i had to choose one man's music to listen to for rest of my life itd be Miles. It aint even close. Well, mabe Hendrix, but still.... Id have so many different types of music, all of which are being played at the highest level. Shit id even be able to listen to some hip hop!
yes!
Nobody is saying anything I don't know or mentioning any records I don't have (those are certainly all wonderful records by the way). I just think Miles's work is better, more challenging, and more original. There's a sense of risk in his work but also a sense of balance that nobody else quite got.