@@etiennemiemczyk7081 Start a Satanic jam band. Not doom metal or anything, just normal jamming but everything very consistently sounds like agonizing garbage.
Miles took a "bad" chord and made it music - Herbie took that moment and made it wisdom for the rest of us. I salute this, and hope others can keep building on it.
Miles was like, when Herbie fell over the piano, aa that's an #F minor #11 sus 2 with B in the bass, really inovative Herbie. Not like those butter notes you played earlier.
@@Roxanneredpanda And you literally don’t know what order those words should be in, so maybe you should stop trying to correct other people’s grammar, eh?
@@aweik4937 you literally don't understand the possessive case by leaving an apostrophe off "people's" so you shouldn't correct other people correcting other people's posts.
*"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."* - Miles Davis, _Miles: The Autobiography_ I relied a lot on this quote by Davis to center myself during the days when I struggled with anxiety attacks.
If you fear mistakes in music, then you will never have the courage to experiment, which is trial and error. Also i have gotten pretty good at covering "mistakes" or more accurately unintended events by repeating them and using them as starting points like miles did. But I doubt Miles even heard it as a mistake
"Miles didn't heard it as a mistake, he heard it as something that happened, just an event, and so that was part of the reality of what was happening at that moment, and he dealt with it", nice concept there.
People criticized Miles Davis but could not be more accommodating than he was. All musicians of all races speak highly of him. The man was simply a genius, always reinventing himself and his music!
I was fifteen when Future Shock came out, still have it on cassette. As I got older and more into jazz mind was blown on the rest of his career. Awkward being born in 1967, much of my first exposure to Beatles songs was in the awful Sargent Pepper movie, talk about a screwed up initial world view.
+Brewsk Litovsk I think you mean "tapes". Herbie taped everything in those days according to his autobiography. I'm sure he treasures them to this day. This interview looks like early-mid 80s so Miles was still alive. Joe Zawinul worked with a cassette recorder to record his improvisations and transcribe his tunes from those. At his death there were over 600 tapes, which went to his son. Maybe some day those and Herbie's will be available.
@@Studio-62 The last thing I want if for Herbie, another jazz great, to pass away. So I can't help feeling guilty that I am excited for those tapes to be released haha....
I had heard that Myles Davis believed that there are "no wrong notes...just different choices". Well I guess this is a perfect example of his theory. Amazing story.
This is one of the most important and key things to being a musician/playing in a band, being able to follow each other and adapt to what each person is playing.
Honestly, as profound as the lesson is, I think it takes a certain type of intellect to appreciate the fullness of the situation. So, major props to Herbie, and Miles, off course.
"Remember, there are no mistakes, only new parts." - Rush's Geddy Lee to audience. "I don't call 'em mistakes, I 'em call happy accidents." -Bob Ross "Worship the Glitch" -Coil
Isn't that what Jazz is all about. Spontaneity, thinking out of the box, taking something standard and embellishing upon it to create a stylized version of the original. Musical resourcefulness baby !
Level 1: Something bad happens and you say to yourself, "I'm going to make this into something good." Level 2: Something bad happens and you don't even recognize it as being bad.
It sounds like he’s describing this performance at just over 40min: ua-cam.com/video/kJq3j4rA0o0/v-deo.html Different tune, but the minute long pause he took that he was talking about is there
It's so crazy watching the laid back Herbie talking about this reunion of giants, where he of course belonged, and make it sound so intimate and enjoyable for all of them.
This was a demonstration of his generosity at that particular moment, I consider this something very important, especially in art. I am grateful to Miles for sharing his music and Herbie for giving such a meaningful statement.
They rarely make people like Herbie anymore. Genius, well-spoken, and not a douchebag to the media. Just a gent who loves music, is extremely good at it, and wants to talk about it. A professional.
I heard Vinnie C.,tell a story about playing with Herbie where he was so blown away by a solo part Herbie played, he stopped playing altogether. After the song or gig, Vinnie told Herbie what happened and Herbie said, “I thought sitting out was your contribution to the song at that moment”. So, it seems Herbie treats his fellow musicians the same way… Class.
People throw the word genius around pretty lightly these days, but Both Herbie and Miles were and are special as musicians beyond any normal ability or achievement. Great story...
When you revolutionize your field - you are usually, technically considered a genius in the creative sense of the word. Miles did that two or three times ...
Wow ... just discovered that Herbie is 80 years young! It caught my ear that he was playing a gig in the early 60s with Miles ... so Herbie would have been 23ish. Uh ... wow again.
Wow! Not only does that "wrong" chord show what a great musician Miles was, but also the depth of philosophical prospective Herbie was able to glean from it. I wonder if Miles recognized that aspect of his playing. Thanks for the post!
After he said “I’ve got so many stories I could tell about Myles Davis,” he smiles for a sec, as if he knows a lot of stuff that wouldn’t be appropriate to share lol
I don't belong in the conversation. But I say it to my kids, "If you are the better man, be the better man. And if you aren't, then why are you complaining." Thank you for the perspective.
Yes...this is something I read is Miles' Bio where he said Dizzy and Bird taught him that what determines a bad note during improvising is the very next note(s) you play. Miles said they taught him how to make something magical out of what first was thought to be a mistake. Life lesson for sure!
I recall the tape recorder thing from Miles' book which is one of the best reads I had in my life. I love Herbie, he's such a music scientist with huge heart and soul.
So what I got out of this is that Mr. Hancock must be sitting on an absolute gold mine of stereo reel-to-reel tapes of gigs with this outfit from back in their glory days.
There are 150 people that disliked this video. Why? What's wrong with them? Herbie is nice and a genius and is giving a great piece of advice learned from another genius. And overall he tells it really nice. What's wrong with you that you can't you love it?
@@OdaKa A Pointless, irrelevant, arrogant and stupidly reactionary comment. So you like the extremely rich owning everything, taking more and more, not paying taxes, living above the law, turning the police into a violent militarized racist occupation force and removing our democracy for oligarchy as both the GOP and DNC (twice sabotaged Sanders) filth do? And you blame poor and desperate and the victims of this? Pathetic self glorification ('I am a hard working real man' as though there are not others out there working harder for less or not enough to live properly) reactionary garbage by Mr self Righteous! Oh btw I studied and jammed with Musicians who played with Miles Davis and I love his genius work if not his personality.
@@vladdrakul7851 Oh, btw, I studied and jammed with Musicians who played with Freddy Fortnoy and we all how important that was. And, oh, btw, no one "sabotaged" Bernie, he sold out. Check his bank acct. and home ownership before and after the Clinton/Trump fiasco. Politicians are not heroes, they are arses, "upon whom everyone has sat, except a man." e. e. cummings
@@farshimelt first Freffie Fortnoy is nothing while Miles Davis is an important GENIUS.. 2ND YOUR cheap shallow parrot DROPPINGS are just MSM rhetoric, Tulsi GABBARD DID NOT SELL OUT AND IT CHANGES NOTHING about the fact THAT THE DNC DID WRONG, sabotaging the process of democracy and primaries as well as screwing over yes a cowardly weak Bernie. HOW TIRESOME SUPERFICIAL TOOLS LIKE YOU ARE. ANOTHER POINTLESS COMMENTBY ANOTHER superficial fool. Free Assange! watch and learn. *Biden Will Shut Down Left Voices w/Chris Hedges*
It's funny that there is a legendary clip on UA-cam during the era of this story where Herbie interrupted Miles' Solo. Its astounding that we even have such an amount of information to cross reference moments from these times.
Wow. I did not expect to gain a tremendous life lesson out of this video, but I sure did. This applies way beyond just playing jazz. There are no mistakes in life, just changes (badum-tish) that you can either adapt to or resent.
I saw Herbie and Wayne Shorter a few years ago in Tokyo and sat about 20 feet from the stage. Watching them live is mesmerizing... it's more than a concert or gig. They were still incredible (and tireless) at 77 and 84 years old. Esperanza Spalding was on bass and Terri Lyne Carrington on drums. It felt like watching history being made.
Reminds me... I was playing a jazz solo on tenor in a little club in San Jose Calif, and I had my tape recorder going. I was solidly in the zone, not knowing or caring what key we were in or the names of the notes I was playing. My horn was scat singer. There was no me. All of a sudden, a note popped out that was not anticipated. I snapped me out of the zone and let out a yelp - a sort of apology. Surprisingly, members of the audience echoed the yelp. They thought it was enthusiasm.. I played on. At solo's end, the crowd went nuts. I never thought about it until just now, but maybe what I played after the yelp made the wrong note right. What I do know is that when I listened to the tape, the phrase ending with the mistake was wonderful, blue, jazzy. The yelp wasn't bad either.
Perfect anecdote to describe what made jazz unique. An adjustment like Miles' can't happen in a classical concert, and no one would care if a wrong note was played in a rock, bluegrass, country, or pop concert (happens a lot, & with no adjustment).
I have not been afraid of "wrong" notes since about 1957. I don't even call them wrong notes. I just regard them as notes premature or delayed notes or misplaced notes.
Miles Davis actually said before that when u fuck up a note in music, the next note (improv) is what can make it work.. like in life, as Henry Miller also said.. “ When you make a mistake drawing, fuck up a line - is it the same as getting a note wrong in your music? The note next to the one you think is bad, corrects the one in front. The idea is you live from moment to moment So in doing that, this moment decides the next step. You shouldn’t be five steps ahead, or concerned with what came before - if you can keep to what is next, you’re always all righT “ you are honest, and what comes after will honour what was a mistake before /l- staying in the moment, making what came off as wrong make sense, flowing honesty, it’s almost like a moment you stifle on expressively. Miles knew it wasn’t a falter.. it was a hard truth and the answer was handle it. Music has that Power to make it right. They were all geniuses. And Herbie got it.
Hm, that doesn’t always work. Sometimes a wrong note is just a wrote note. And when a musician does that slick trick of trying to cover up a wrong note, it’s often obvious to listeners.
This may be the official explanation of that other video clip that went viral showing Miles giving an angry look to Herbie after he played a chord. People have been speculating like crazy over what that look was about.
The other's video descriptions says: "Miles Davis Quintet Live at Teatro dell'Arte in Milan, Italy on October 11, 1964". So probably not, but would've been funny.
@@Fruchtstand187 maybe, but assuming this video is from the 90s (looks like it from those loud ass clothes Herbie is wearing) that would have been over 30 years ago. Enough for specific details to be lost. Or Herbie just can't stay on Miles' good side. 😄
That is right! Miles Davis took it as an event, dealt with it and responded in a harmonious way, hence the word responsibility - the ability of a player to respond.
Playing in a band involves an insane amount of team work. Team work means that you help your fellow musician, even if they made a mistake during your feature. You'll learn a lot from yourself by making mistakes live. And I mean A LOT!
There's a funny thing about Miles Davis It seems like every time I hear about him as a person, he seems pretty grumpy and serious and bitter and then when I hear about people being with him in the studio it's a neigh spiritual experience being with a master class musician such as him It's like being around the music turns him into a different person Or maybe everyone appreciated those moments more in retrospect Whatever the case, this is a pretty interesting interview
I love Herbie Hancock. How can you not? I'm a middling pianist with failing hands, but he just makes me love what I CAN do. His brilliance brings me joy and is never at the expense of my own parameters.
Just came to this after watching the 1988 interview with Miles where he gives his POV - that there are no bad notes, and the next note can correct the "bad" note. So good. Mind expanding.
this makes a lot of sense to me. ive listened to a lot of jazz, and the greats really knew how to bang out the oddest notes and make it work, even if it takes 10 more notes to fit it in. cheers
It is alway amazing to hear geniuses discuss situations with other geniuses. Thanks once again Mr. Hancock....p.s the recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl was awesome. (2019)
Cool. Zappa said a lot of his solos were keeping up with the band and their mistakes rather than playing strictly what was written. He too surrounded himself with artists of different eras who had their own sound and style. I'm starting to think that genius is the ability to make the most of what is available to you now, to see it feel it. Making plans musically or otherwise is a design, a contour, a boundary in some ways. Loosening up and letting go to what happens when your plan meets the rest of the world and other musicians, is what i have learned from Miles and Frank and life and music in general. Cheers for posting the video.
All the greats know what Monk said: "Wrong is right." Thelonious Monk INTERVIEWER: "What do you do when you play a wrong note?" MILES DAVIS: "I play it again." "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Mark Twain "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." Mark Twain "I never wanted to learn how to paint the right way, but I was always interested in learning how to paint the wrong way." Picasso When something doesn't sound quite right Those are the records I buy Eddie Argos You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. Frank Zappa "I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds" Dizzy Gillespie "I don't like music; I like sounds. Because Music is just black ants running across white paper." Captain Beefheart Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. Duke Ellington An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde "Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." William Blake Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.”
~Frank Zappa~
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@@muhammadaryawicaksono4232 THAT SOUNDS TAUTOLOGICAL.
Thats why I tune my guitar a semitone flat
@@etiennemiemczyk7081 Start a Satanic jam band. Not doom metal or anything, just normal jamming but everything very consistently sounds like agonizing garbage.
@@squatchjosh1131 fantomas
Miles took a "bad" chord and made it music - Herbie took that moment and made it wisdom for the rest of us. I salute this, and hope others can keep building on it.
Bull
Yes, if one wants a great example of the oh so cliche "win-win", there it is
Bellissimo
"Pura verdade"
The man who never made mistakes never made anything.
Love this
Man that very profound
BEAUTEEEEEEEFUUUULLL.
A única vez que errei foi quando achei que tinha cometido um erro.
Miles was like, when Herbie fell over the piano, aa that's an #F minor #11 sus 2 with B in the bass, really inovative Herbie. Not like those butter notes you played earlier.
Miles after Herbie messes up: Finally, some good fucking music
you spelt literally F# wrong
@@Roxanneredpanda And you literally don’t know what order those words should be in, so maybe you should stop trying to correct other people’s grammar, eh?
@@aweik4937 😂😂
@@aweik4937 you literally don't understand the possessive case by leaving an apostrophe off "people's" so you shouldn't correct other people correcting other people's posts.
*"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."*
- Miles Davis, _Miles: The Autobiography_
I relied a lot on this quote by Davis to center myself during the days when I struggled with anxiety attacks.
If you fear mistakes in music, then you will never have the courage to experiment, which is trial and error. Also i have gotten pretty good at covering "mistakes" or more accurately unintended events by repeating them and using them as starting points like miles did. But I doubt Miles even heard it as a mistake
"There are no accidents."
-Master Oogway
So he's saying he played a wrong chord and Miles was like "so what?"
LOLOLOL
Yes, he was "miles ahead" of the rest of us.
I think Miles was thinking: "Wow!"
Kind of
Touché
I came here for a cool Miles David story and I’m leaving feeling better equipped to face life.
Me too 🤓🎯👍
Me three 🎺
Me David
every preseason, we vikings fans need to collect anything that will help us face life. except an o line, obviously.
@@Dylpostino 😂
"There's no bad note, the note next to the one you think is bad, corrects the one in front." - Miles Davis 1988.
I was surprised to hear Hancocks comments, especially as a musician. Everyone knows jazz is about improvisation, no?
"Miles didn't heard it as a mistake, he heard it as something that happened, just an event, and so that was part of the reality of what was happening at that moment, and he dealt with it", nice concept there.
Yep
This is pure jazz zen.
People criticized Miles Davis but could not be more accommodating than he was. All musicians of all races speak highly of him. The man was simply a genius, always reinventing himself and his music!
The music changed but Miles was himself, consistently, throughout his recorded career. His solos on all his recordings sound like him.
A related jazz insight from Miles I heard him say once was "If you play the wrong note, do it again like you meant it". Top tip!
i remember when Herbie made the scene with Rockit on MTV in the early 80s and he was described as musical newcomer ! Can you imagine that?!
Lmao 😂🤦🏻♂️
Dear god hahaha 🤦♂️😂
I was fifteen when Future Shock came out, still have it on cassette. As I got older and more into jazz mind was blown on the rest of his career. Awkward being born in 1967, much of my first exposure to Beatles songs was in the awful Sargent Pepper movie, talk about a screwed up initial world view.
No one:
UA-cam: you wanna watch Miles Davis nostalgia?
Me at 3am: yes
Herbie Hancock is 80 now dude still looks amazing.
He does! Saw him in March 2020 before the lockdown and we all were saying the same thing. He’s got the energy of a millennial.
I love how the story ended up having nothing to do with the tape recorder haha. Anyway, great words Herbie.
vyse75 -- Yeah, that's true; anyway, I wonder what happened to that tape?
+Brewsk Litovsk I think you mean "tapes". Herbie taped everything in those days according to his autobiography. I'm sure he treasures them to this day. This interview looks like early-mid 80s so Miles was still alive. Joe Zawinul worked with a cassette recorder to record his improvisations and transcribe his tunes from those. At his death there were over 600 tapes, which went to his son. Maybe some day those and Herbie's will be available.
@@Studio-62 The last thing I want if for Herbie, another jazz great, to pass away. So I can't help feeling guilty that I am excited for those tapes to be released haha....
First time I've heard Herbie Hancock talk. If first impressions are important, he just nailed this first impression with me.
You should check out the six part series of lectures he did a couple of years back. There on UA-cam. Really eye opening
I had heard that Myles Davis believed that there are "no wrong notes...just different choices". Well I guess this is a perfect example of his theory. Amazing story.
The main thing Mr. Hancock learnt is actually a fantastic lesson for life. Excellent!
This is one of the most important and key things to being a musician/playing in a band, being able to follow each other and adapt to what each person is playing.
Miles really said “So What” to a mistake in So What
My Japanese Prof used to say ''that's not the exact translation ,but it still has a meaning.''
If you’re lucky enough to have played an instrument, you realize how incredible some players are. There are levels to this shit.
Honestly, as profound as the lesson is, I think it takes a certain type of intellect to appreciate the fullness of the situation. So, major props to Herbie, and Miles, off course.
This is what is important for people to know about Jazz. Open minds, open hearts, and understanding.
Herbie: Plays wrong chord.
Miles: Hold my beer.
*Hold my butter notes*
With how his voice sounded, he was probably saying: hold my water 😂
My Japanese teacher has yoga classes with Herbie Hancock in New York lmfao
The man is 80 years old. That must be an interesting class haha
Senor Studly I was just thinking the same thing hahaha
He lives in LA now. I’ve met him
Hilarious?
Senor Studly L.A. how long he’s been there probably has. Places in both.
Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Miles. HOLY SH@! what a band!!!
The lakers of jazz music
The only one that might rival that is the Jazz at Massey Hall quinet which was Bird, Diz, Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich, and Max Roach
🔥
Herbie just described a master musician.
Reminds me of Monk who said "the piano ain't got no wrong notes..."
Where did you hear or read that? I'm curious! Thanks for the quote
Monk - " bad performance tonight. I played the wrong wrong notes".
"Remember, there are no mistakes, only new parts." - Rush's Geddy Lee to audience.
"I don't call 'em mistakes, I 'em call happy accidents." -Bob Ross
"Worship the Glitch" -Coil
What a privilege to see an interview with Herbie Hancock
Isn't that what Jazz is all about. Spontaneity, thinking out of the box, taking something standard and embellishing upon it to create a stylized version of the original. Musical resourcefulness baby !
I feel like Herbie Hancock having a life long interest in science is such a wholesome fact
sounds more like hes interested in gadgets than science but yeah its fun
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In jazz there are no mistakes ; only opportunities.
Nice!
Salvador Dali once said, "All mistakes are divine." Sounds like Miles knew that too.
Miles carries that down to a t
I met Salvador Dali once.
As he passed by, I said "Hello Dali" and he ignored me . . . but his face twitched a little.
Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Grover Washington jr. are some of the greatest musicians that our country has ever had.
Level 1: Something bad happens and you say to yourself, "I'm going to make this into something good." Level 2: Something bad happens and you don't even recognize it as being bad.
I would kill to see the actual live footage of this.
it's mostly uneventful, just a dissonant chord and Miles playing off it. I highly doubt anyone except Herbie heard it as a mistake
It sounds like he’s describing this performance at just over 40min: ua-cam.com/video/kJq3j4rA0o0/v-deo.html
Different tune, but the minute long pause he took that he was talking about is there
@@the4thstring nah that’s not it. Miles is mad at herbie for comping poorly over his solo and stealing his thunder or something like that
He never gets old. This is a classic video YES but at 80 something he still is strong.
It's so crazy watching the laid back Herbie talking about this reunion of giants, where he of course belonged, and make it sound so intimate and enjoyable for all of them.
you can tell herbie is a really intelligent man
You think?
This was a demonstration of his generosity at that particular moment, I consider this something very important, especially in art. I am grateful to Miles for sharing his music and Herbie for giving such a meaningful statement.
They rarely make people like Herbie anymore. Genius, well-spoken, and not a douchebag to the media. Just a gent who loves music, is extremely good at it, and wants to talk about it. A professional.
Fuck u and media
Pogo Richardson 100% agree Herbie is one of my favorite musicians of all time. he blew me away with his innovated talent and piano skills.
a century of black music bad day?
I heard Vinnie C.,tell a story about playing with Herbie where he was so blown away by a solo part Herbie played, he stopped playing altogether. After the song or gig, Vinnie told Herbie what happened and Herbie said, “I thought sitting out was your contribution to the song at that moment”.
So, it seems Herbie treats his fellow musicians the same way… Class.
The lesson was: when life gives you a wrong chord played by Herbie, make lemonade.
Miles, a true artist. A famous painter once said; "When i make a mistake, my next thought is, should i repeat this or not."
People throw the word genius around pretty lightly these days, but Both Herbie and Miles were and are special as musicians beyond any normal ability or achievement. Great story...
When you revolutionize your field - you are usually, technically considered a genius in the creative sense of the word. Miles did that two or three times ...
Wow ... just discovered that Herbie is 80 years young! It caught my ear that he was playing a gig in the early 60s with Miles ... so Herbie would have been 23ish. Uh ... wow again.
Tony Williams was 19 when he went with Miles. Miles was 20 when he played with Bird, Mozart was composing before he was 12.
Wow! Not only does that "wrong" chord show what a great musician Miles was, but also the depth of philosophical prospective Herbie was able to glean from it. I wonder if Miles recognized that aspect of his playing. Thanks for the post!
After he said “I’ve got so many stories I could tell about Myles Davis,” he smiles for a sec, as if he knows a lot of stuff that wouldn’t be appropriate to share lol
“It’s all just information. Don’t judge it.”
- my mentor
Sure, Miles was genius, but Herbie is genius and kindness. Deep respect.
I don't belong in the conversation. But I say it to my kids, "If you are the better man, be the better man. And if you aren't, then why are you complaining." Thank you for the perspective.
That story about “the wrong chord” and Miles’ running with it is the mark of a mastermind. “There are no mistakes-just opportunities”!
Yes...this is something I read is Miles' Bio where he said Dizzy and Bird taught him that what determines a bad note during improvising is the very next note(s) you play. Miles said they taught him how to make something magical out of what first was thought to be a mistake. Life lesson for sure!
Didn't expect this message when I clicked on the link but I'll never forget it now that I'm here! Thanks Mr. Hancock and Mr. Davis.
I recall the tape recorder thing from Miles' book which is one of the best reads I had in my life. I love Herbie, he's such a music scientist with huge heart and soul.
So what I got out of this is that Mr. Hancock must be sitting on an absolute gold mine of stereo reel-to-reel tapes of gigs with this outfit from back in their glory days.
There are 150 people that disliked this video. Why? What's wrong with them?
Herbie is nice and a genius and is giving a great piece of advice learned from another genius. And overall he tells it really nice. What's wrong with you that you can't you love it?
Maybe they feel like the world owes them a living deedle deedle deedle deedle dum
Eze KB :I am checking for the 21k! That like the video....151 is negligible
@@OdaKa A Pointless, irrelevant, arrogant and stupidly reactionary comment. So you like the extremely rich owning everything, taking more and more, not paying taxes, living above the law, turning the police into a violent militarized racist occupation force and removing our democracy for oligarchy as both the GOP and DNC (twice sabotaged Sanders) filth do? And you blame poor and desperate and the victims of this? Pathetic self glorification ('I am a hard working real man' as though there are not others out there working harder for less or not enough to live properly) reactionary garbage by Mr self Righteous! Oh btw I studied and jammed with Musicians who played with Miles Davis and I love his genius work if not his personality.
@@vladdrakul7851 Oh, btw, I studied and jammed with Musicians who played with Freddy Fortnoy and we all how important that was. And, oh, btw, no one "sabotaged" Bernie, he sold out. Check his bank acct. and home ownership before and after the Clinton/Trump fiasco. Politicians are not heroes, they are arses, "upon whom everyone has sat, except a man." e. e. cummings
@@farshimelt first Freffie Fortnoy is nothing while Miles Davis is an important GENIUS.. 2ND YOUR cheap shallow parrot DROPPINGS are just MSM rhetoric, Tulsi GABBARD DID NOT SELL OUT AND IT CHANGES NOTHING about the fact THAT THE DNC DID WRONG, sabotaging the process of democracy and primaries as well as screwing over yes a cowardly weak Bernie. HOW TIRESOME SUPERFICIAL TOOLS LIKE YOU ARE. ANOTHER POINTLESS COMMENTBY ANOTHER superficial fool. Free Assange! watch and learn. *Biden Will Shut Down Left Voices w/Chris Hedges*
It's funny that there is a legendary clip on UA-cam during the era of this story where Herbie interrupted Miles' Solo. Its astounding that we even have such an amount of information to cross reference moments from these times.
Miles once said, "There are no wrong notes. If you hold a note long enough eventually it will sound right".
That reminds me of “The piano ain't got no wrong notes.” [Thelonious Monk]
Not true at all, but a quippy quote for sure
@@janetownley Which part do you think is not true? What he said or the quote?
@@janetownley Music tonality is driven by context, you can very easily make a "wrong note" be the introduction of a new key.
@@PhoebeAlwaysWins Or even use the clashing of 2 "wrong chords" together as a moment of tension or change.
Wow. I did not expect to gain a tremendous life lesson out of this video, but I sure did. This applies way beyond just playing jazz. There are no mistakes in life, just changes (badum-tish) that you can either adapt to or resent.
Ditto
“One of the big problems Miles had with me…” tells you a lot about the nature of their relationship. Herbie is very graceful and tactful person.
I saw Herbie and Wayne Shorter a few years ago in Tokyo and sat about 20 feet from the stage. Watching them live is mesmerizing... it's more than a concert or gig. They were still incredible (and tireless) at 77 and 84 years old.
Esperanza Spalding was on bass and Terri Lyne Carrington on drums. It felt like watching history being made.
Someone told Thelonius Monk that he played a wrong note. He told them that the piano can't play wrong notes.
Reminds me... I was playing a jazz solo on tenor in a little club in San Jose Calif, and I had my tape recorder going. I was solidly in the zone, not knowing or caring what key we were in or the names of the notes I was playing. My horn was scat singer. There was no me. All of a sudden, a note popped out that was not anticipated. I snapped me out of the zone and let out a yelp - a sort of apology. Surprisingly, members of the audience echoed the yelp. They thought it was enthusiasm.. I played on. At solo's end, the crowd went nuts. I never thought about it until just now, but maybe what I played after the yelp made the wrong note right. What I do know is that when I listened to the tape, the phrase ending with the mistake was wonderful, blue, jazzy. The yelp wasn't bad either.
It’s mind blowing that he’s now 82 years old. Just can’t believe it.
No, I'm sorry, Miles Davis passed away in 1991.
(He would be 96 now if he were still alive.)
@@VideoNozoki he's talking about herbie lol
@@VideoNozoki I was referring to Herbie. He’s 82.
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I was so impressed when he said that Miles fixed it and then he blew me away when he said it wasn’t even a mistake to miles
y'all this is Herbie Hancock one of the original signers of the declaration of Independence he looks great for his age!
This also looks like it was recorded decades ago - late 80s or early 90s.
all of a sudden I'm the mood for a rousing round of "Fat Guy Little Coat"
@@ResistanceQuest 😂!
Miles Davis - Trumpet, Herbie Hancock - Piano, Tony Williams - Drums, Ron Carter - Bass and Wayne Shorter - Sax = Sublime Heaven On Earth.
This has to be one of the greatest story ever told.
Perfect anecdote to describe what made jazz unique. An adjustment like Miles' can't happen in a classical concert, and no one would care if a wrong note was played in a rock, bluegrass, country, or pop concert (happens a lot, & with no adjustment).
I have not been afraid of "wrong" notes since about 1957. I don't even call them wrong notes. I just regard them as notes premature or delayed notes or misplaced notes.
Miles Davis actually said before that when u fuck up a note in music, the next note (improv) is what can make it work.. like in life, as Henry Miller also said.. “ When you make a mistake drawing, fuck up a line - is it the same as getting a note wrong in your music?
The note next to the one you think is bad, corrects the one in front.
The idea is you live from moment to moment
So in doing that, this moment decides the next step. You shouldn’t be five steps ahead, or concerned with what came before - if you can keep to what is next, you’re always all righT “ you are honest, and what comes after will honour what was a mistake before /l- staying in the moment, making what came off as wrong make sense, flowing honesty, it’s almost like a moment you stifle on expressively. Miles knew it wasn’t a falter.. it was a hard truth and the answer was handle it. Music has that
Power to make it right. They were all geniuses. And Herbie got it.
Hm, that doesn’t always work. Sometimes a wrong note is just a wrote note. And when a musician does that slick trick of trying to cover up a wrong note, it’s often obvious to listeners.
I've heard a saying about freestyles, if you make a mistake, be sure to make it again in the next measure so it seems intentional.
He probably got that from Dizzy..
This may be the official explanation of that other video clip that went viral showing Miles giving an angry look to Herbie after he played a chord. People have been speculating like crazy over what that look was about.
Was thinking the same thing
The other's video descriptions says: "Miles Davis Quintet Live at Teatro dell'Arte in Milan, Italy on October 11, 1964". So probably not, but would've been funny.
@@Fruchtstand187 maybe, but assuming this video is from the 90s (looks like it from those loud ass clothes Herbie is wearing) that would have been over 30 years ago. Enough for specific details to be lost. Or Herbie just can't stay on Miles' good side. 😄
Lol, that drummer went suddenly shifty-eyed.
That is right! Miles Davis took it as an event, dealt with it and responded in a harmonious way, hence the word responsibility - the ability of a player to respond.
nice interview, what a humble dude
Yes it is!
BLACK MUSIC MATTERS
You know the Jazz is good when you smile by just listening to a story such as this one
Jazz was invented by musicians who learned to figure their way out of their mistakes.
Playing in a band involves an insane amount of team work. Team work means that you help your fellow musician, even if they made a mistake during your feature.
You'll learn a lot from yourself by making mistakes live. And I mean A LOT!
Herbie Hancock. One of the greatest musicians living today.
This is actually a pretty good life lesson.
There's a funny thing about Miles Davis
It seems like every time I hear about him as a person, he seems pretty grumpy and serious and bitter
and then when I hear about people being with him in the studio it's a neigh spiritual experience being with a master class musician such as him
It's like being around the music turns him into a different person
Or maybe everyone appreciated those moments more in retrospect
Whatever the case, this is a pretty interesting interview
I love Herbie Hancock. How can you not? I'm a middling pianist with failing hands, but he just makes me love what I CAN do. His brilliance brings me joy and is never at the expense of my own parameters.
Just came to this after watching the 1988 interview with Miles where he gives his POV - that there are no bad notes, and the next note can correct the "bad" note. So good. Mind expanding.
Much more than just a comment about Miles Davis, this is a moment of wisdom of Herbie Hancock. So happy for listen his story.
this makes a lot of sense to me. ive listened to a lot of jazz, and the greats really knew how to bang out the oddest notes and make it work, even if it takes 10 more notes to fit it in. cheers
It is alway amazing to hear geniuses discuss situations with other geniuses.
Thanks once again Mr. Hancock....p.s the recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl was awesome.
(2019)
I always get the impression that Herbie Hancock could play in any situation and be awesome. He also seems an extremely cool guy.
I often play wrong chords, too bad Miles isn't here to arrange things for me.
Cool. Zappa said a lot of his solos were keeping up with the band and their mistakes rather than playing strictly what was written. He too surrounded himself with artists of different eras who had their own sound and style. I'm starting to think that genius is the ability to make the most of what is available to you now, to see it feel it. Making plans musically or otherwise is a design, a contour, a boundary in some ways. Loosening up and letting go to what happens when your plan meets the rest of the world and other musicians, is what i have learned from Miles and Frank and life and music in general. Cheers for posting the video.
I love that man's music. Tons of good songs to listen to
Miles didn't just say "There are no mistakes." He lived it.
The power of NOW! Living in the moment.
"Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one beautiful one." M. Davis
nice
So happy I heard Herbie say these words, such a profound insight. Thanks for sharing.
All the greats know what Monk said:
"Wrong is right." Thelonious Monk
INTERVIEWER: "What do you do when you play a wrong note?"
MILES DAVIS: "I play it again."
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Mark Twain
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned." Mark Twain
"I never wanted to learn how to paint the right way, but I was always interested in learning how to paint the wrong way." Picasso
When something doesn't sound quite right
Those are the records I buy
Eddie Argos
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa
"I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds" Dizzy Gillespie
"I don't like music; I like sounds. Because Music is just black ants running across white paper." Captain Beefheart
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. Duke Ellington
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde
"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." William Blake
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This was great!
I could listen to Herbie Hancock telling stories all day!
The "mistake" anecdote starting at 2:01 is pure gold.
"there's no such thing as mistakes, just happy accidents". - Bob Ross
He looks so young. Incredible.
Is this from the '80s or '90s?
As the truth goes, "Black don't crack".