Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cob, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, and Miles Davis. Did a more legendary group ever exist? This is the very epitome of jazz.
Miles takes you though every corner of the house on Green Dolphin Street and just when you are ready to settle down, Coltrane jumps out of the closet, and starts running up and down the stairs. And Cannonball is in the kitchen, showing you his recipe for dolphin. (it's also a type of edible fish.) Bill Evans is out by the pool, and plays the waterfall. And they all join in.... What a monumental track!
I remember when I first heard this performance of On Green Dolphin Street. I sat in my room for hours in total silence,unable to move. All I could think was “this is absolute perfection “. 35 years later, my opinion is unchanged . This is absolute perfection.
When I was homeless I use to drop into bars and other venues when they hosted jams or bands. Bunch of guys had commandeered an old theater and were rehearsing. Sound of the room was great, vast wooden floor. I asked to sit in and when they said next tune was Green Dolphin, I said ok. never heard it before. Got through it w/o making too much of a fool of my self. (Much different version than here). 6 month later I was at a low key piano bar with a tight group of horns, bass, drums, piano. As usual I asked to sit in and again "The Dolphin" but latin style. I nailed it. It had been germinating in me for all that time and I could improvise around the melody and stay within the groove. Got a nice round of applause when I left. Have always liked any version of the tune ever since.
I first heard this when I was 16. I'm now 80 and it still inspires and transports me. Cannonball's opening is genius - I am moved every time I hear it. Miles and Evans are so attuned with such similar sensibilities - melodic, flowing lines with such creative use of space. Nice contrast with Coltrane's and Cannonball's dense note- packed solos.
THIS IS ONE of the greatest JAZZ tunes,GREEN Dolphin STREET, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, as Smooth AS SILK, NEVER EVER GET TRIED OF hearing it.....a CLASSIC...... ASE
Or, presented in chronological order of solos: Cannonball Adderley's pictures wrongly appear during tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's solo, followed by Coltrane's pictures wrongly appearing during alto saxophonist Adderley's solo. That's a shame. Otherwise, a nice montage accompanies this classic performance.
Or, presented in chronological order of solos: Cannonball Adderley's pictures wrongly appear during tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's solo, followed by Coltrane's pictures wrongly appearing during alto saxophonist Adderley's solo. That's a shame. Otherwise, a nice montage accompanies this classic performance.
Oh, how Bill sets the ambience for a tune! It's amazing how so many people don't realize what a contribution Bill made to the overall sound of a recording. That's not even mentioning the wonderful solo--so understated but meaningful!
One of the most beatiful pieces of music EVER written. It got me into jazz and into the greatest piano player of the twentieth century: The great BILL EVANS.
True bliss. No wonder Miles never wanted to play this music in his later years saying, ' it hurts me too much to play those ballads'. All because he loves them too much.
There'll never be another Miles .. or another Bill Evans, or John Coltrane: the combination of those geniuses, and the others, is like an explosion of perfection, I can't imagine it ever being quite rivalled.
Bill, on “Kind Of Blue” (and Jazz Track) is what made me a pianist! Not many can name one or two watershed, defining songs that changed their professional lives. Mine were “Blue In Green” and “Flamenco Sketches”! They were the pieces that made me a pianist!
My favorite part is the continuity between Trane’s and Cannonball’s solos. And Miles’s solo. And Bill’s, and. . .and. . . It’s just non-stop musical bliss. . .❤❤❤❤
" IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A GIFT FOR ME, HEARING MUSIC THE WAY I DO. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT COMES FROM, IT'S JUST THERE AND I DON'T QUESTION IT. " Miles Davis...and what a gift for us...
The eternal quality of all music resounds in this masterful work of art. This is simply magnificent,... you run out of superlatives for this coterie of iconic musicians. This touches heaven & changes earth. 💖💖💖💖💖🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
it is precisely people like you, who have the ability to understand the intricate, beautiful storytelling that rests inside jazz music, that make humanity beautiful. This is a fantastic, lovely description.
So much soul, thank God for the favor of his blessings to the men speaking the word of real music ! Let yourself go into this song and see where it takes you !
My middle school Jazz Band performed this tune last night. I like to give the kids classic jazz tunes. No charts; everyone (including the bass player and drummer) must memorize the tune and be able to sing it. Then, each student can play the tune alone as their solo until they are comfortable improvizing.
This appears to be a comment from someone who does not speak English as a first language, @@sethirving. Let's cut some slack here -- we're here to enjoy some amazing music, not critique other people's English (this from a teacher of English, BTW).
Saw a variation of this group in about 1962 at the Bird Cage {corner of Dearborn & Division} Chicago. Sat mesmerized all night. A cousin of mine owned the Blue Note in Chicago. Saw lots of great sets there starting when I was 15. Am 82 now.
I was a kid spinning Brubeck records when I discovered this release by Miles et al. I was fortunate. I'd yet to know of Bill Evans. I was certainly struck by Miles' sonority, and the use of silence and crashes by drummer Jimmy Cobb. Cannonball seemed bigger than life. Paul Chambers was playing bass like this before dying at the young age of 33. Incredible.
On Green Dolphin Street - - - - the most wonderful piece of music ever composed!!! Jazz is the classical!!!!!!!!!!!!!! music the USA has given to the world.
Got turned on to the whole cool jazz scene in Acapulco in 1964; came back to the States with a new orientation towards life; still with me. Groove on Miles!
This is the most relaxing song, my body is limp. So beautiful, this world will never defeat, deflate, or disintegrate my mind, I’m my own healing source. I’m getting up and going to get it, first thing in the morning.
Superb: giants collaborating, communicating with the most complex artistic stuff on earth - notes and sounds, chords and rhythms, to create a laughing and swinging creature that conveys pure joy.....!
I know there are bands still around but I wish there was an uproar of Classic Jazz and Blues, a revamped love for the arts, in my wildest dreams. Miles Davis, what a legend.
miles davis is so timeless, that tone is amazing even one the old recording equipment, he is still the greatest, i love to hear this song performed by him, and i absolutly love the fact that he plays most of his stuff with a mute, he will never be forgotten, because you gotta love how trumpet he plays the trumpet.
"As saxophonist Dave Liebman recalls from his days with Davis at the height of Miles’ electric period: “He said Bill was really the guy who opened the doors for him musically-Bill was very special to him. He said to me, ‘I used to call Bill up and tell him to take the phone off the hook. Just leave it off and play for me because I loved the way he played." Ashley Kahn, JazzTimes
@Jim Stark I agree miles was a genius way before he met Evans but after he didn't make this kind of "cool" jazz before they met.. correct me if Im wrong but as far as I know his style was mostly hot.
The whole piece is delightful...the Piano "sets the mood" from the beginning, as the force of Miles' Horn, and Cannonball's Alto and John Coltrane's Tenor provide the perfect balance... and Paul Chambers Basslines sweetly guides it along!.
My favorite straight-ahead jazz album ever. Stella by Starlight is also sublime, and Cannonball's solo on Love for Sale was for me, a revelatory experience.
I love this song. Billy Ekstein did a wonderful vocal of it, which, sad to say, I can't find online. But when I listen to Miles Davis, or John Coltrane doing it, all I can say is; You Tube is a blessing and thanks to whoever made them available to us.
The most innovative musical artist of all time, and the stimulator of great art from a magnificent selection of kindred spirits, my deepest gratitude and respect.
+Art Edwards Well sure they knew these tunes intensely, but that's not the sole reason, or even the main reason, why this sounds so fluid and effortless. It's because we're talking about a group consisting of arguably the greatest musicians and improvisers of their given instrument. You could practically throw any jazz-standard at them and they would play it like they've played it thousands upon thousands of times. It's really a measure for incomprehensible quality and talent.
Whateverworks. Of course, it helps to be a genius, as were most of the band, but if I may, Miles especially. But I don't think you are appreciating what it means to know a tune instead of reading it, and what it means to play with someone a lot. The latter leads to a trust you don't get on a one-night stand, no matter who you are. The former means that they have already explored the tunes many ways, so that, for example, complete reharmonization comes naturally, not from cliche's. That's why I am rarely interested in "All-star" bands. There will be a clear level of quality, but nothing really deep. This band often recorded _after_ gigs, late into the night. They were already completely warmed-up and played out in the best sense of the word. It's like a continuation of a gig. So I agree that they were all something special separately. What makes this really special is that they knoew each others' playing, and they really new the tunes.
Art Edwards Very well put Mr. Edwards and I find it hard to disagree with you at all. I wanted to put across the idea that what you are saying is absolutely true and on top of that they were geniuses - and I agree - especially Miles. As a pianist myself, I can absolutely relate to your point about exploring a given tune. The exploring allows for mistakes to be made and therefore new harmonies and "feelings" to arise and one also gains an intimate relationship with the tune. Whereas with a completely new tune, which is unexplored, one will have no real reference-point and will essentially play "safe", which makes it sound dull and stiff. I think my point was that we all can do the latter. Explore a tune intimately. But we are not all blessed with the intrinsic talent of these musicians too make it sound as good as it does. It's really one-hundred-percent genuine emotion expressed through their instrument and the result is awe-inspiring. Your last point is of course also very true. Especially in jazz, we really talk through our instruments and talk on set with different feelings. When the musicians really know each-other, as these guys did, the dynamic is unique because everyone understands and can dynamically and musically complement each-other.
Originally, this was the B side of a 2-session Columbia album called "Jazz Track." On the A side Miles plays with some American jazz expatriates as they record the actual score for a French movie. But the 2nd side is what made the album a classic, giving us the Miles Davis-Bill Evans versions of 2 movie themes that became the most popular jazz standards from the movies, "On Green Dolphin Street" (even many musicians leave out the initial preposition) and "Stella by Starlight."
@distress674: A farmer is someone actually out there riding a tractor and plowing the lower 40. Miles's father was a full-time dentist. On his farm he kept horses and I think he leased the use of the land to neighboring farmers in the area.
...my absolute favorite performance of my favorite classic!..... thanks so much.... I still am amazed at this performance.... way awesome...... love it, thanks!
Although I've been purchasing Miles Davis albums since around 1970, I never heard this until several years ago. Incredible recording. Guess I was missing this one.
To argue one over the other is to show your preferences. Cool as long as we recognize we all have them - right? Miles' influences were many from personal to Bird to Juiliard to many musicians of that time that changed the world. Sometimes I love this "cool jazz", sometimes I want the stronger stuff of the 40's like Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. I'm thankful for all good music and so glad these guys got it on record. Peace please.
No matter how many versions of this classic tune by Bronislau Kaper are---this version by Miles' sextet is the most definitive. The solos are perfections themselves and also check out Bill's trio version of this recorded several months later with Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers. Bill often remarked he really had a special thing with Paul---and this track shows it!
i would go further and say Bill Evans was indispensable to the unique quality of this recording. his chords form the melodic canvas that these soloists paint so beautifully on. to say these guy are icons is understatement. this is the voice of you know, that being you pray to, if you pray.
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Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cob, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, and Miles Davis. Did a more legendary group ever exist?
This is the very epitome of jazz.
How about Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach?
Well put!
I AGREE, WHOLEHEARTEDLY!
Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Richie Powell & George Morrow weren't too shabby a group....
@@icecreamforcrowhurst Touché
Miles Davis and Bill evens - the epitome of black and white bringing what they know to make beautiful music magic. i could fly away...
Miles takes you though every corner of the house on Green Dolphin Street and just when you are ready to settle down, Coltrane jumps out of the closet, and starts running up and down the stairs.
And Cannonball is in the kitchen, showing you his recipe for dolphin. (it's also a type of edible fish.) Bill Evans is out by the pool, and plays the waterfall. And they all join in....
What a monumental track!
Silly nonsense.
@@noahvale939 LOL!
noahvale939 silence b o o m e r
Whats the bass player and drummer doing?
@@ZeAlfredo Playing along. This is my favorite Jimmy Cobb track.
I remember when I first heard this performance of On Green Dolphin Street. I sat in my room for hours in total silence,unable to move. All I could think was “this is absolute perfection “. 35 years later, my opinion is unchanged . This is absolute perfection.
Got it right 1st time man. He was a subtle genius. Soo smooth and precise.
Same here. Manhattan, 1975.
I bought this album in 1960 in Manchester, U.K. ( album entitled: Jazz Track) loved ever since, through vinyl/ cd.
Peace to all.
this ain't for you and you will never get it, white boy. now go back to listening to dave matthews band
@@alankirkby465Cheers for the tip! I'll search for the CD version.Stay well Mancunian!!!
When I was homeless I use to drop into bars and other venues when they hosted jams or bands. Bunch of guys had commandeered an old theater and were rehearsing. Sound of the room was great, vast wooden floor. I asked to sit in and when they said next tune was Green Dolphin, I said ok. never heard it before. Got through it w/o making too much of a fool of my self. (Much different version than here). 6 month later I was at a low key piano bar with a tight group of horns, bass, drums, piano. As usual I asked to sit in and again "The Dolphin" but latin style. I nailed it. It had been germinating in me for all that time and I could improvise around the melody and stay within the groove. Got a nice round of applause when I left. Have always liked any version of the tune ever since.
Love your story ... meaningful experience ultimately mastered & even lauded. Sweet food for the soul.
I first heard this when I was 16. I'm now 80 and it still inspires and transports me. Cannonball's opening is genius - I am moved every time I hear it. Miles and Evans are so attuned with such similar sensibilities - melodic, flowing lines with such creative use of space. Nice contrast with Coltrane's and Cannonball's dense note- packed solos.
Some of the best musicans in the history of western culture. When I shuffle of this mortal coil this is what I will miss most.
My dad had the 78s of all these artists. I grew up as a child listening to these greats.
Shared this song to SB in 2022 because he digs Bill Evans as much as I do. Enjoy it!
Absolutely NOTHING beats listening to Miles Davis recordings. This nothing short of heavenly.
Love this sad happy tune; first heard it outside of Acapulco 1964;
THIS IS ONE of the greatest JAZZ tunes,GREEN Dolphin STREET, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, as Smooth AS SILK, NEVER EVER GET TRIED OF hearing it.....a CLASSIC......
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You have displayed photographs of Coltrane during Cannonball's solo and vice versa
The first time I heard this was in 1961 played on guitar by Barney Kessel accompanied by Ray Brown (bass) and Shelley Mann (drums)Unequalled
Or, presented in chronological order of solos: Cannonball Adderley's pictures wrongly appear during tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's solo, followed by Coltrane's pictures wrongly appearing during alto saxophonist Adderley's solo.
That's a shame. Otherwise, a nice montage accompanies this classic performance.
Or, presented in chronological order of solos: Cannonball Adderley's pictures wrongly appear during tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's solo, followed by Coltrane's pictures wrongly appearing during alto saxophonist Adderley's solo.
That's a shame. Otherwise, a nice montage accompanies this classic performance.
@@bobriedinger5287 my post didn't need clarification.
@@tomgrosemusic Sorry. My apologies. (Sometimes I have a tendency to overexplain.)
Davis, Evans, Coltrane... It don't get any better.
Those are just the best ones ;)
charlie parker :-D
How can you leave out cannonball?
And what about Chambers and Cobb, probably the greatest rhythm section of the time?
They are all great, folks!
Oh, how Bill sets the ambience for a tune! It's amazing how so many people don't realize what a contribution Bill made to the overall sound of a recording. That's not even mentioning the wonderful solo--so understated but meaningful!
Very well put sir!
Bill Evans was always loved by me .. As a teen l was listening. I'm an old lady now. 😊
I agree totally, Bill Evans was the truth, one of the best intros in music!!!!!!!!
Miles was this coolest cat to ever breathe air.
Sinatra.
Miles was great
@Subtle B3ast his ego and personality was shit.. but his playing was unbelievably cool
Improvision at it finest !!
agreed
Listening after dinner on Boxing Day 2019, R.I.P Miles, and peace and love for 2020 to all the YT Jazz heads.
金曜日の夜にスコッチ飲みながら自宅でこの曲を聴くのが幸せだなぁ…
I am happy to listen to this song at home while drinking Scotch on Friday night ...
達史小林 いいじゃないか
One of the most beatiful pieces of music EVER written. It got me into jazz and into the greatest piano player of the twentieth century: The great BILL EVANS.
the coolest song of the era, always the one and i carried it with me all these years -- music is god.
Yes truly timeless music, thank you Miles Davis for blessings us with your talent.
Miles Davis and Bill Evans. They were Beautiful Together!
True bliss. No wonder Miles never wanted to play this music in his later years saying, ' it hurts me too much to play those ballads'. All because he loves them too much.
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they can also be very tiring and lip wounding especially with a harmon mute. not ez
No words to describe how much I love this
has to be one of the best songs ever. makes my day just to hear it
There'll never be another Miles .. or another Bill Evans, or John Coltrane: the combination of those geniuses, and the others, is like an explosion of perfection, I can't imagine it ever being quite rivalled.
I fell in love with Bill Evans the moment i heard this. That's brilliant
Bill, on “Kind Of Blue” (and Jazz Track) is what made me a pianist! Not many can name one or two watershed, defining songs that changed their professional lives. Mine were “Blue In Green” and “Flamenco Sketches”! They were the pieces that made me a pianist!
It's never to late
I didn't know who the piano was when i 1st heard 30 years ago, but it was eternal.
@@rmac1042 Thank you for this!!!
This song was made from heaven
I love this performance! All the solos are exceptional and the group is so great together.
My favorite part is the continuity between Trane’s and Cannonball’s solos. And Miles’s solo. And Bill’s, and. . .and. . .
It’s just non-stop musical bliss. . .❤❤❤❤
I should add that this is required listening for anyone who considers him/herself a jazz buff/lover.
Wonderful !!! Davis, Evans and Coltrane togheter !! Historical meeting !! A masterpiece !
R.I.P Jimmy Cobb who died at the age of 91 just under a week ago.
Yes 😥
RIP you’ll never be forgotten.
" IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A GIFT FOR ME, HEARING MUSIC THE WAY I DO. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT COMES FROM, IT'S JUST THERE AND I DON'T QUESTION IT. " Miles Davis...and what a gift for us...
The eternal quality of all music resounds in this masterful work of art. This is simply magnificent,... you run out of superlatives for this coterie of iconic musicians. This touches heaven & changes earth.
💖💖💖💖💖🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
it is precisely people like you, who have the ability to understand the intricate, beautiful storytelling that rests inside jazz music, that make humanity beautiful. This is a fantastic, lovely description.
So much soul, thank God for the favor of his blessings to the men speaking the word of real music ! Let yourself go into this song and see where it takes you !
Arguably the best recording of this song. Adderley sounds so, well, Adderley. that's good.
My middle school Jazz Band performed this tune last night. I like to give the kids classic jazz tunes. No charts; everyone (including the bass player and drummer) must memorize the tune and be able to sing it. Then, each student can play the tune alone as their solo until they are comfortable improvizing.
Wow, your students are lucky to have you for a teacher.
Johnny G Was that supposed to be a sentence?
go eat.
This appears to be a comment from someone who does not speak English as a first language, @@sethirving. Let's cut some slack here -- we're here to enjoy some amazing music, not critique other people's English (this from a teacher of English, BTW).
I like that... prob a little basic to have them all playing the same part but soooo useful in eartraining!
Saw a variation of this group in about 1962 at the Bird Cage {corner of Dearborn & Division} Chicago. Sat mesmerized all night. A cousin of mine owned the Blue Note in Chicago. Saw lots of great sets there starting when I was 15. Am 82 now.
I was a kid spinning Brubeck records when I discovered this release by Miles et al. I was fortunate. I'd yet to know of Bill Evans. I was certainly struck by Miles' sonority, and the use of silence and crashes by drummer Jimmy Cobb. Cannonball seemed bigger than life. Paul Chambers was playing bass like this before dying at the young age of 33. Incredible.
Just as tragic, Scott Le Faro at 25.
i think the one of the best track from miles.
my heart fulfilled.
miles never sounds down
On Green Dolphin Street - - - - the most wonderful piece of music ever composed!!! Jazz is the classical!!!!!!!!!!!!!! music the USA has given to the world.
Especially this particular version.
Got turned on to the whole cool jazz scene in Acapulco in 1964; came back to the States with a new orientation towards life; still with me. Groove on Miles!
This is the most relaxing song, my body is limp. So beautiful, this world will never defeat, deflate, or disintegrate my mind, I’m my own healing source. I’m getting up and going to get it, first thing in the morning.
Que clase de agrupación, "Los Magníficos" sin ninguna duda. Gloria a la historia de ese género.
This is the song that hooked me into being a Miles Davis fan as a teen. Then Round Midnight, etc.....but this was THE SONG. It always will be.
Miles Davis was the foremost exponent of the cool sound in jazz .
Superb: giants collaborating, communicating with the most complex artistic stuff on earth - notes and sounds, chords and rhythms, to create a laughing and swinging creature that conveys pure joy.....!
In 1962 I bought Mile's "Jazz Track" Album just for this song......I still have it.....
Dieu merci , hallelujah,juste magnifique .
I remember listening this on lp in 1947 it was a classic even then.
I know there are bands still around but I wish there was an uproar of Classic Jazz and Blues, a revamped love for the arts, in my wildest dreams. Miles Davis, what a legend.
Stumbled upon this song last week and played it on repeat constantly on my headphones at work
miles davis is so timeless, that tone is amazing even one the old recording equipment, he is still the greatest, i love to hear this song performed by him, and i absolutly love the fact that he plays most of his stuff with a mute, he will never be forgotten, because you gotta love how trumpet he plays the trumpet.
I have not heard this song in almost 30 years, and wow, just wonderful! Bill Evans shines super bright. Thanks
"As saxophonist Dave Liebman recalls from his days with Davis at the
height of Miles’ electric period: “He said Bill was really the guy who
opened the doors for him musically-Bill was very special to him. He
said to me, ‘I used to call Bill up and tell him to take the phone off
the hook. Just leave it off and play for me because I loved the way he
played."
Ashley Kahn, JazzTimes
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@Jim Stark I agree miles was a genius way before he met Evans but after he didn't make this kind of "cool" jazz before they met.. correct me if Im wrong but as far as I know his style was mostly hot.
The whole piece is delightful...the Piano "sets the mood" from the beginning, as the force of Miles' Horn, and Cannonball's Alto and John Coltrane's Tenor provide the perfect balance... and Paul Chambers Basslines sweetly guides it along!.
head out of the window, a little blunt in the hand, listening to this chef d'oeuvre.
Thank you very much for making me happy in that day!
Bill's imperious introduction sets the tone for another round of pure magic.
The same magic that I first experienced 45 years ago. The ultimate jazz sextet and as others have commented, it couldn't be without Evans.
My favorite straight-ahead jazz album ever. Stella by Starlight is also sublime, and Cannonball's solo on Love for Sale was for me, a revelatory experience.
Real classic & Jazzy, Exactly Da way My Ears like it!!! LOve Dis Jam, each TIME I HEAR IT!!! -Percy Clifford Payne
部屋暗くしてこれ聞きながらスーパーの寿司を食べました。至福でありました。
I love this song. Billy Ekstein did a wonderful vocal of it, which, sad to say, I can't find online. But when I listen to Miles Davis, or John Coltrane doing it, all I can say is; You Tube is a blessing and thanks to whoever made them available to us.
Good stuff. It's a part of my jazz collection.
5:47 is pure soul elevation. The duality of Evans and Coltrane note and rhythm choices transcends life
glad to be back...promoting greatness. ty for such great music.
Cannonball baby. Swings like no other!!
absolute classic. geniuses at work.
What a gorgeous piece of musical teamwork. Everyone shines in this one!!
Better music. Better times. Such talent.
I can't even describe how good Bill Evans was in this song. His solo was one of the greatest I've heard.
What a great mix of giants. I wish it lasted longer.
This is such a great recording. Best ever.
+Cristino.... simply THANKS.....for educating and pointing out the one common denominator - Miles Dewey Davis!
Miles Davis = Mozart of Jazz. Hundreds of years from now, providing we still exist, they'll be playing Mr. Davis.
The most innovative musical artist of all time, and the stimulator of great art from a magnificent selection of kindred spirits, my deepest gratitude and respect.
Miles played about 30 tunes a lot. That's why the band sounds so effortless-- they know these tunes so deeply.
+Art Edwards
Well sure they knew these tunes intensely, but that's not the sole reason, or even the main reason, why this sounds so fluid and effortless. It's because we're talking about a group consisting of arguably the greatest musicians and improvisers of their given instrument. You could practically throw any jazz-standard at them and they would play it like they've played it thousands upon thousands of times.
It's really a measure for incomprehensible quality and talent.
Whateverworks. Of course, it helps to be a genius, as were most of the band, but if I may, Miles especially. But I don't think you are appreciating what it means to know a tune instead of reading it, and what it means to play with someone a lot. The latter leads to a trust you don't get on a one-night stand, no matter who you are. The former means that they have already explored the tunes many ways, so that, for example, complete reharmonization comes naturally, not from cliche's. That's why I am rarely interested in "All-star" bands. There will be a clear level of quality, but nothing really deep. This band often recorded _after_ gigs, late into the night. They were already completely warmed-up and played out in the best sense of the word. It's like a continuation of a gig. So I agree that they were all something special separately. What makes this really special is that they knoew each others' playing, and they really new the tunes.
Art Edwards
Very well put Mr. Edwards and I find it hard to disagree with you at all. I wanted to put across the idea that what you are saying is absolutely true and on top of that they were geniuses - and I agree - especially Miles. As a pianist myself, I can absolutely relate to your point about exploring a given tune. The exploring allows for mistakes to be made and therefore new harmonies and "feelings" to arise and one also gains an intimate relationship with the tune. Whereas with a completely new tune, which is unexplored, one will have no real reference-point and will essentially play "safe", which makes it sound dull and stiff.
I think my point was that we all can do the latter. Explore a tune intimately. But we are not all blessed with the intrinsic talent of these musicians too make it sound as good as it does. It's really one-hundred-percent genuine emotion expressed through their instrument and the result is awe-inspiring. Your last point is of course also very true. Especially in jazz, we really talk through our instruments and talk on set with different feelings. When the musicians really know each-other, as these guys did, the dynamic is unique because everyone understands and can dynamically and musically complement each-other.
+Art Edwards well said. It's still bloody marvelous.
+Whateverworks. talent is an invented concept, id rather call it practise cause all these guys did was play music
Originally, this was the B side of a 2-session Columbia album called "Jazz Track." On the A side Miles plays with some American jazz expatriates as they record the actual score for a French movie. But the 2nd side is what made the album a classic, giving us the Miles Davis-Bill Evans versions of 2 movie themes that became the most popular jazz standards from the movies, "On Green Dolphin Street" (even many musicians leave out the initial preposition) and "Stella by Starlight."
Oooh yes Miles Coltrane Evans ... 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@distress674: A farmer is someone actually out there riding a tractor and plowing the lower 40. Miles's father was a full-time dentist. On his farm he kept horses and I think he leased the use of the land to neighboring farmers in the area.
Imagine living and being in New York City on a hot June 1958 Afternoon...and having this on the radio. No I-Pods or such back then.
Miles made everyone around him play better. Miles was and is the greatest leader in Jazz period!
Charles Gassi Agreed but I’d put Duke slightly higher maybe!
Greatest jazz piece I've heard.
He was miles ahead
Real music...
Pure nous A
Thanx guys
I meant
Pure bliss
Heavenly sounds!
...my absolute favorite performance of my favorite classic!..... thanks so much.... I still am amazed at this performance.... way awesome...... love it, thanks!
Man i love miles. I just love the man flat out.!
ものはっぱ さん の演奏を聞いて
こちらにたどり着きました😊
ジャズは詳しくないけど
すてきです！
Although I've been purchasing Miles Davis albums since around 1970, I never heard this until several years ago. Incredible recording. Guess I was missing this one.
To argue one over the other is to show your preferences. Cool as long as we recognize we all have them - right? Miles' influences were many from personal to Bird to Juiliard to many musicians of that time that changed the world. Sometimes I love this "cool jazz", sometimes I want the stronger stuff of the 40's like Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. I'm thankful for all good music and so glad these guys got it on record. Peace please.
When you listen to this you realise nothing really matters when your in heaven
2014 and Miles is still the boss ,
Evans was his boss.
@@marcatkinson5187, Miles was no slouch, BUT... ☺️🎶🎹
2022 and Miles is still the boss.
Not only incredible talents all at the top of their game, but complementing each other as perfectly as seems possible.
this is one of my favorite jazz recordings ever. cannonball's solo is just beyond perfection haha.
No matter how many versions of this classic tune by Bronislau Kaper are---this version by Miles' sextet is the most definitive. The solos are perfections themselves and also check out Bill's trio version of this recorded several months later with Philly Jo Jones and Paul Chambers. Bill often remarked he really had a special thing with Paul---and this track shows it!
Bill Evans intro still gives me chills every time I hear this.
i was fourteen when this was issued. i've always had this song as the coolest thing and 'imagine i was there' NYC. the youngest beatnik then was i.
i would go further and say Bill Evans was indispensable to the unique quality of this recording. his chords form the melodic canvas that these soloists paint so beautifully on. to say these guy are icons is understatement. this is the voice of
you know, that being you pray to, if you pray.
yes, this was the best time for modern jazz and really where evans fit. i still have my head in the 1950's for jazz.
This track, a thing of beauty!!!
Peace to all.