And this was already true decades ago. I used to hear him on college FM stations (eclectic or jazz programs). To me he was a chameleon - whatever the vibe was he melted right into it. Like, if there was not a note out of place, that was Ron Carter. I loved Jaco, too, but he was kinda the opposite - in two notes you know he's making Jaco sounds, Jaco rhythms and intervals.
There is no greater joy than shopping for records and seeing Ron Carter on the credits. I have bought every one I have found, haven’t counted but I must have 150 at least. I mean, I swear I am underestimating…
As a sax player, I grew up listening to Bird, Cannonball, Coltrane, etc, but there was always something about Miles Davis that accentuated and elevated the collaborations. It doesn’t matter if it’s rainy, stressful, sunny or depressed, Miles transcends all moods.
I grew up listening to a radio and sneaking into the family room and listening to my brother’s 45’s. Then The Beatles came along and the other British Invasion bands and American rock and pop . Then a friend in high school played John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme album for me and I wasn’t sure I liked it because it was out there to me. Then I heard Miles Kind of Blue and I got it. Miles music was something I could appreciate . I eventually broadened my mind enough so that I can appreciate Coltrane’s music now more than I could as a teenager. Miles music helped me discover my love of jazz.
I can't help but think of all the band leaders Miles had in his bands. * Miles -> Chick Corea -> Return to Forever * Miles -> Herbie Hancock -> Headhunters * Miles -> Joe Zawinul -> Weather Report * Miles -> John McLaughlin -> Mahavishnu Orchestra And consider this lineage: (Charlie Parker) -> Miles -> Bill Evans -> Paul Motian -> Bill Frisell -> ... It's not just that he played and influenced great players, but he was instrumental (no pun intended) in getting new influencial bands formed.
.....I remember seeing Herbie Hancock play in Australia and he would have (one-way) conversations with the audience. Jazz he said is all about "sharing". He distilled it all down to one word which started to make sense to me and revealed to why Jazz musicians are generally different "cats" from the rest of the music and entertainment industry
I remember how I discovered Miles. I was in college. I knew the musical spawn of Miles. I started talking about these people with some guy on the same floor of the dorm. Even though he was my age, he was somehow steeped in the history of jazz (which was not a cool thing at the time). He told me all these guys played with Miles before they went on to other bands. Blew my mind that one guy was such a nexus of jazz talent.
You forgot one very important one: Miles -> John Coltrane. Maybe Coltrane wasn't a 'band leader' per se, but he certainly lead a very important quartet.
As a kid I used to put on ”Sketches of Spain” when no one else was home. I thought it was magical but I couldn’t say why. It still is. And I still can’t… Thank you Rick for putting this together.
My wife was associated with the summer Stanford Jazz Workshop series for a couple of years. They had one week for adults, and two weeks for kids. They contacted every single kid a week before the sessions started, and part of that communication essentially said "If you want to do yourselves a lifelong favor, go get a copy of 'Kind of Blue' if you don't already own it."
The reason I became a Jazz Trumpeter. When I was 16 I went into a record store (remember them?) and picked up a recording of Miles live in concert in 1964, the famous one with My Funny Valentine, Stella By Starlight etc. I’d never even heard Miles before and it completely blew my mind. I’d never heard anything like it and to today it’s still my go to Miles album. I transcribed all the incredible solos and quickly learned all about Miles, his music and his incredible influence on music generally. His music completely changed my life.
I have listened to Miles Davis almost everyday for over thirty years. Two standout things, first his trumpet has a “pained” sound that “physically” resonates with his listeners. This is coupled with a stand alone “style” that makes his virtuosity untouchable
Like his style and sound or not, Miles' sound concept came from his inability to initially match the bravura virtuosic sounds and tones of his (then-1940's) contemporaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Harry James and Charlie Shavers. People think Miles had a hard upbringing but that wasn't the case. He ALWAYS pointed out that his father was a successful dentist in St. Louis, and they lived on a farm, plus attended Julliard. People often mistook Miles' "aloofness" for being rude. He was just shy and never was too big on talking. He'd rather just do something musical or paint to express his soul.
It's really interesting to have Robben Ford's experience juxtaposed with Ron Carter's… I think Miles was a very different person in the '80s than he was in the '60s, and the experience his band members had with him reflected that.
Miles Davis 14 July 1990 playing at the Jazz Festival in my small German hometown, amid a medieval fortress. Playing with his back to the audience all the time. But absolutely legendary. After he was there, the following years all the jazz stars queued up to participate.
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I grew up in 1970s Britain hearing ska, reggae and chart music. Whenever I read interviews about the artists I admired talking about the music they loved, the name Miles Davis would frequently come up, regardless of genre. That intrigued me enough to find out how he was - I'm glad that I did.
I'm waiting for Rick Beato to do a show on Prince. Rick can easily do any of Prince's live show stuff and it not be taken off UA-cam. Prince was a musical genius and it's about time for Rick to do a show on him.
There were all these amazing rock acts at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. And then Miles came on with the Bitches Brew band endlessly ebbing and flowing, hitting highs and lows dynamically in music that had never been heard before. Miles made 500,000 people (and me) hear music from a different perspective. In the late 80's I saw him in Sydney, Australia with that Ricky Wellman go-go funk thing. For me Miles is so important to music, not only jazz and fusion music
Decades of listening now and I still can't get over how massively creative, talented, visionary and tenacious Miles was! Still chasing down the stories and sounds of this giant, who showed us that he played music, not just jazz!
As a kid back in the 80's, I was total music nerd who was learning to play the drums, guitar and some keys. When I turned 16 my best friend wanted to buy me a couple of cool albums as a present. He went to the big record shop in town and said "I want to buy 2 records for my friends birthday. I think he would like really jazz, but I don't know anything about it." He got sent home with Kind of Blue and Time Out and it really did change me forever. It opened me up to a ton of amazing music that I was consuming alongside all those great acts of the 80's.
I knew nothing about jazz or MD. Then I listened to Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew. The difference between the two was so startling that I've been a huge fan ever since. Check out the Cellar Door Sessions from 1970, there is a special energy going on here.
I was lucky enough to see Miles pass through Seattle during my last attendance of Cornish Institute. That would have been the "You're Under Arrest" Tour, I believe, with John Scofield on Guitar. Then, I managed to see Jaco Pastorius later that year. Somewhere in that brief time I was at Cornish when Bobby McFerrin did a symposium in a smallish classroom (maybe 70 people in attendance), a couple of years before "Don't Worry, Be Happy" broke him bigtime. Very fond thoughts and insights, and transcendental days, then. Something like them may come again.
Miles Davis always sounds new, no matter how often you listen to him. That's what makes him so great! I've been doing that for almost 60 years now. One of my favorites is the CD box 'The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel'. Here, Miles' second quintet plays standards in the freest, most conceivable way. As a guitarist, I still learn from Miles every day. He once pointed out the phrasing and timing of Frank Sinatra, whom he greatly admired. I immediately bought Sinatra CDs and Miles was right. What an inspiration and what a greatness!
Miles has the most breathtaking discography, from Birth Of The Cool, the Prestige albums, Kind Of Blue to E.S.P. Nefertiti to Bitches Brew, On The Corner, Agharta to Decoy, etc. Just unreal!
15:37 I listened to Miles my whole life and this is exactly him, his music. Listen to the music you have in your head, don't play it and play on the spaces. Genius Genius at the true sense of the word
I recommend Miles Davis at Fillmore. It's a live album recorded over four days at the Fillmore East. It's pure energy. One of the most energetic albums I've ever heard, but it also has some spaced-out reflective moments too. Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira, and a sax player whose name I'm forgetting right now play the shows.
Thank you for these wonderful interview clips, Rick! My parents took me to my first ever jazz concert when I was 10 years old. It was Miles Davis with his "Bitches Brew" band! So many people at the concert had hoped to hear the former acoustic quintet (including my parents) and walked out on the electric band. The rest of us who stayed to hear this new music (including my parents) were ecstatic!! After that, they often found me listening on headphones to Bitches Brew or A Tribute to Jack Johnson as my start on the music of Miles Davis. I was lucky enough to hear him in concert a couple more times, and my love of his recordings stretches back to Birth of the Cool and discs by his first great quintet through a fair number of the fusion recordings. Of course, I ended up buying most of the Columbia-Sony remastered boxes of his CDs (including one box containing his work with arranger Gil Evans) and they are fabulous! As are a number of others, too (including Live at the Blackhawk, Friday & Saturday Nights; Cookin'; Relaxin'; Workin'; Steamin'). I listen to much more jazz by other artists, and Miles Davis' music and recordings are very much the foundation for me, along with recordings by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Mingus and Dolphy, Oscar Peterson and NHOP, etc.
Sitting around a campfire under the stars in the Rockies with a head full of shrooms and Bitches Brew on the portable...well it's something I remember 35 years later.
Not only is Miles Davis one of the most influential musicians ever but he also has probably the most consistently masterful discography's ever all the while completely doing something different and ground breaking every time. People talk about which band has had a perfect 5 album run and will struggle to name even a few. And then here comes Miles with his perfect 15 - 20 album run. absolute machine
15:35 This is such good advice! It felt like the time someone told me to, as a rule , try to avoid the root note as much as possible in a solo (the root note is lava), which will make you play (totally) other lines than you would normally play.
I read a biography about Miles 20 some years ago as a teen, and was blown away by his genius. He was on another level, and he surrounded himself with like musicians. They were very competitive and created a music scene that thrived and grew on itself. The most amazing story I remember was how Miles would hear noises in regular life, and know EXACTLY the note, and play it on the trumpet. He could hear the sound of a door squeaking and instantly could imitate it on a trumpet. He is a GENIUS. And not to mention all the geniuses that came out of playing with him like John Coltrane, an absolute legend in his own right. After Kind of Blue, Coltrane got nothing but better. In a biography I read on coltrane around the same time, I recall that apart from genres of music and piano music books and harp music books, Coltrane studied songs of Birds, to the same point that he could hear a bird singing and imitate it on his horn. Sounds like something Miles would have taught him.
@@kylec2761 I'm almost positive that's what I read after seeing the book cover. Miles was a very eccentric person, a true artist like Prince, sometimes their personal lives were very bizarre. Anything from that book in particular about his personal life upset you? I'd love to hear about it.
@@ajadrew I've seen that before! I've seen another before where someone moved a plastic container across a surface and it sounded like Coltranes saxophone. "Trash can sounds like John Coltrane"
My musical life was shaped by Miles and what he gave to the world. His insights taught us all how to think freely and play what we felt! Bless his memory!
"Sketches of Spain" was what drew me into Miles and indeed into jazz. It's not mentioned here but I think it's probably easier to get than the more straght ahead jazz albums recommended. On another note, there's an interview with John McLaughlin talking about Miles' generosity when John was starting out in New York. Miles would slip him the occasional $100 bill when JM was hard up!
I had a General Ed class in college (Jazz in America). Went through Scott Joplin to modern jazz - at that time it was ~1990. The instructor encouraged me to go see Miles Davis in Oakland, CA Paramount Theater in 1990. Amazing show.
I actually bought Rubberband when it came out in 2019, and I was blown away by the album (especially given the date of recording) This was supposed to be an album that just sat on the shelf because it wasn't "good enough" for other albums, but that only goes to show you how innovative Miles was when it came to developing new and interesting music.
Pauldav recommends Live at the Fillmore. Tremendous. Here's mine. Back in the late 70's I was listening to Miles Round Midnight. Just grooving, I was about 19-20. Incredible. 2 guitar playing buddies and I went to Baltimore to see Allan Holdsworth with Jeff Berlin and Dave Weckl. Steve Morse opened. The scene was a hole in the wall hotel, black paint everywhere and the show was delayed because the power went out. It was hot in there and Allan was drinking hot beer and upset and throwing it on the floor etc. They finally hit and after the show, Jeff Berlin set his bass down and walked off the stage. Everybody looked at each other and followed him. I was right behind him and he walked into the old lobby to the door and turned around and started talking. There was a crowd around him and I stood next to him to his left. All he talked about was Miles. Most of the cats were drummers, bassist, keyboardists and of course guitar players. I could tell by their comments and questions. I played trombone so my questions and comments were different. He told us that Allan and the British guitarists had no concept of playing rhythm. I thought of Mclaughlin and Jeff said yeah, he's on Miles' Tribute to Jack Johnson and went back to talking about Miles. There's pictures of me and Jeff and Allan somewhere. Anyway the next day I held Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson in my hands and I bought Jack Johnson. The next week I went back and bought Bitches Brew and that blew my mind. Later the Fillmore and Live Evil. I took Bitches Brew to a friend's who had some Bose 901s and one of his buddies came by and said oh Miles Runs The Voodoo down. I was like you know Miles? And he said yeah. Then he said something I'll never forget. He said man you got to hear this one that Miles has these two bad guitar players on it. He said the name of it but I don't remember. One night maybe a few years later I was at Tower Records in Miles' section holding two expensive two album sets. We Want Miles and this album with a space ship and underwater stuff on it. I did this for several weeks. One night the salesman walked up and I asked what are these two about. He said the yellow one is Miles' comeback from retirement album. Kind of laid back with Marcus Miller and Mike Stern. But this other one I was looking at him and a grin came over his face he said this one has these 2 baaad guitar players on it. I remember what that guy said and hurried up and bought it and played as soon as I got home. The first note, I was like aw sh-t and the rest is history. Those 2 guitar players were Reggie Lucas and the incomparable Pete Cosey. I've discovered stuff with Miles that I haven't heard with anyone else. I have to go in a different direction and listen praise and worship like Richard Smallwood....
I will never forget his show in Wiesen / Austria sometime in the Eighties. There was of course no internet at that time. We just knew that Miles was doing something new. And than they played "Decoy" and everybody was in (positive) shock. Nobody had expected that. It was like a storm. So much energy.
Hear whats in your head, dont play it, then play in the space might be one of the most brilliant words of musical wisdom i've heard in a long time. Fascinating stories!
You could say it about all the greats. But. THERE WAS NO ONE, like Miles Davis. When you listen to Miles music. It goes DEEP into you. All over. And he is never in a hurry. Like a great lover 🙏🏻☺️🎼🎵🎵♥️
a bunch of legendary musicians talking about the most legendary jazz musician, And, as usual, great recommendations. I have some of them in either lp, k7 or cd. And kind of blue? multiple copies.
A friend, brought me to his neighbors house. He was playing Bitches Brew. I was a drummer playing rock. Carl would introduce me to Weather Report, Return To Forever. I can’t get enough of this info and interviews. Thank you.
Since years Miles is part of my life - its funny how sometimes you are able to discover your musical destiny - studying far from home every Wednesday there were jazz concerts for students - local club… most of the time really good musicians but I was not into Jazz - at that time it was all about blues SRV Eric Jeff etc… one evening I went there to kill the time - and this evening famous Polish trumpet player had a gig - Tomasz Stanko… I only remember being mesmerized the whole 2 hours - leaving the club with my head with sounds I just experienced… and natural next step was to discover one of the Greatest Musicians of all times… Miles - since then I fall in love with Jazz - but Miles (and Mr Stanko) is this first most intensive experience :) Thank you Rick - your channels are priceless - best stuff on YT!
Nicely done.😊 I have owned "Bitches Brew", an album I could be stranded on a deserted island with, since it came out in 1970. It is a nice soundtrack for when you want Miles' "space trumpet" to help you leave your body. 😁
I got in to Miles in my early 20's, so over 30 years ago, and I will say that I don't think Miles is the best trumpet player, not compared to the likes of Dizzy, Louis Armstrong or even Lee Morgan, but he was one of the greatest band leaders of all time. He inspired those around him, and was constantly innovating and changing the course of jazz. I would heartily recommend reading his autobiography (simply called "Miles - The Autobiography"). It's like an encyclopaedia of jazz history, his thoughts on constantly creating, and his interactions with other jazz legends throughout the years. It also has some hilarious stories in it too. The book is so good I bought it a second time after loaning it to someone (and never saw it again), and both ended up worn out and dog-eared because I referred to it so often.
@@sirjer73 Allegedly (I wasn't there so can't confirm) Miles once said in an interview "Lee Morgan was the baddest trumpet player out there. Badder than Diz, badder than me...". I can see that. He isn't as famous as many other jazz trumpeters, but those who have listened to him know how good he was.
@@jipster2020Before my dad passed away he told me his oldest brother , uncle John lived with Lee Morgan , in a church steeple. My uncle John had a brilliant musical mind he could hear music and transcribe it on the spot. He was an Altoist but had a bad habit which allow him to close proximity with cats like Lee Morgan and Stanley Turrentine who I met as a child. Also apparently Alice Coltrane shouted him out in a book she wrote. John from St.Louis is how she phrased it. He gave John Coltrane a special mouth piece.
@@sirjer73 That is history. I'm a 53 yr old English white guy, and I started playing trumpet because of Miles Davis over 30 years ago, that's how influential he is to me, and I have to say that reading his autobiography opened up a totally different perspective on jazz history. You mentioned the "bad habit" - yeah it was rampant, and nearly all the greats had that "bad habit". Billy Holiday, Miles, Coltrane and Bird for sure. From Miles' autobiography, I also learned that fame & success, no matter how well earned, wasn't quite so appreciated in a country that was still very racist back then. And, when I say "very", I mean "VERY" ! It's 2024 - maybe one day this shit will be over...
I still remember the first time I put the CD Kind of Blue into the CD player in my car and started driving. I never got to any of my errands. Just kept driving until it ended. The only other time I felt that way was the first time I heard Dark Side of the Moon. It was that visceral.
I remember the first time I listed to 'Kind of Blue' - mind blown. Then, the subsequent times I listened to it, so many things fell into place in my head musically after that. It is hard to understate the influence that Miles Davis had on music.
Mr Beato, this set of conversations with Davis sidemen is outtasight. For any aficionado of the genre and student of modern music, this exposure is really important. Thank you.
@@Squirrelconga Even before that, the album "Birth of the Cool" (cool jazz/west coast jazz ), the album "Bitches Brew" (Jazz-rock/fusion style jazz) and "Doo Bop" (Hip Jazz). Just three albums that just changed the course of modern music. Miles was a trend setter. What he did, everybody else learned from.
The story that Warren Haynes told about Miles telling somebody to "play in the space"..... genius. It's like when Oscar Peterson said "Music is what happens between the notes." ..... These guys are simply in another dimension.
@@jedwing I got an album that I gotta re record that samples a lot of his work but I’m staying away from sampling imma still release songs that I already did with samples but I wanna create more original sounds using instruments and the computer sounds etc I wanna learn Music theory master some instruments , I’m not gonna be a rapper who just tryna spit bars but a HipHop artist who thinks like a composer/Musician who write Brillant Songs/Albums I’m already doing that now bro imma Link some of my albums
Two of my very favorite jazz albums Kind of Blue and Time Out. I can listen to those albums and it makes me feel so good. Brilliant musicianship. Beautiful arrangements by the masters of the craft.
Just love these Miles Davis stories and any musician who has ever played with him, always feels obliged to do the impression of Miles, even Keith Jarrett which I found surprising. So many amazing quotes from the master.
“I think it's much more important to know some good Miles Davis stories than to know how to play like Miles. I think you'll play better if you know some of the funny things he did than if you know the licks that he played.” - Sonny Sharrock
I share my birthday with Miles Davis; The G.O.A.T 😎 Nice to hear the great John Scofield talking about Gary Grainger. I hosted Gary here in 2013, very cool Cat 👌🏿 Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤
I loved this, too. If your head knows the genre, it's already getting ideas about what comes next. So play something different and give yourself and the audience a surprise. That other part is already playing in everybody's head so you don't need to play it for everybody to hear it. I notice this a lot with good musicians in all different kinds of music.
When I met my two friends David K and Jamey B who played bass and sax/flute respectively, they said Man you gotta listen to Miles!!! The first thing was So What and I was hooked!!! From there I went early and then later and then beyond. He was a real student of music. Miles and Ellington and some Mingus and some others like Marion Brown all TAUGHT me how to LISTEN and I still do.
one of the coolest concerts i've ever seen was a tribute to Miles and Coltrane and unlike most cover bands this one had Herrbie on Piano, Brian Blade on trumpet, John Pattituci on bass, Michael Brecker on sax and i forget the drummer but these guys were really on that night, it was sick
@@satsukikorin dude this was easily 20 years ago, maybe 25 and I a) don't listen to jazz anymore nor have I in a long, long time but I also have a nuerological disease that affects my memory so you can politely correct me or be the dick you are. bottom line was i was at that concert and you weren't
I saw that show also that was in 2021, it would have been the 75th birthday for Miles and Trane. It was Herbie Hancock on Piano, Michael Brecker on Sax, I believe Roy Hargrove on Trumpet, John P on bass and I couldn't remember the drummers name but he played like Tony Williams. It was at Powell Sympany Hall in midtown St. Louis, a great acoustic venue that the St. Louis Orchestra uses.
Hello Rick. I truly enjoy both of your channels, and am a subscriber. I enjoy most genres of music, but I am particularly impressed by your knowledge of jazz. I would love it if you would do a comprehensive video about the bop era, which I am trying to learn about. I just discovered the piano artistry of Bud Powell, and am blown away by his music. Keep em coming! JWarner
I remember once in Detroit at the Old Ford Auditorium he didn’t even acknowledge the fact that people were present ❤the crowd was on every single note he played 😂
I saw Miles Davis at Massey Hall Toronto -1990. Probably my fondest memory of a live concert. I liked your choices for entry lps but I would go with a more career spanning approach: Someday My Prince Will Come; In a Silent Way; Jack Johnson; and Decoy.
I recently did a "tally" of my LP/CD collection of 50+ years. Miles still has the lead at 40+ recordings. While in college (circa 1975) I lived with a Jazz bassist who educated me on the musical importance of Miles Davis.
Met with Miles back in 1990 at his hotel room and spent the afternoon showing him a neat midi trumpet interface. A much longer story, but I do have a jam of use playing together. As. trumpet player it was a great experience for me when I was in NYC working.
If you still have the recording of that session, and would be comfortable sharing-I would love it hear it, or use it for sampling. I’ve made instrumentals for several artists and having something so organic like this to pull from would really blow me away!A raw recording of a legend jamming with a midi trumpet interface from a stranger that I happened to digitally run into on UA-cam? Insanely dope! Please fr lmk . All love ❤️ . Many blessings 🖖👌🙏
'on the corner' is an album I refer to often as a rhythm section player (bass drums) It's fun to jam with late at night when I have a bit of a buzz. I aways learn something new about myself.
Miles was the master of space as the space between phrases was just as important as each note. Also, his associating color with notes and/or how those notes were expressed made him a painter with sound. The no rehearsal aspect made every performance a blank canvas for Miles. 😊
I saw miles a couple of times live he did an epic version of human nature similar to the live recording of time after time but even better...i wish sombody would've recorded that one still gives me chills
I became a Miles Davis fan with Bitches Brew, because it was being compared to Electric Ladyland. Next it was Jack Johnson with John McLaughlin, then Live / Evil, for Airto. After that, done deal for me ...😊 🎉 ❤ Also, really in the beginning for me also, was with Charlie Parker's A Night In Tunisia.
It was in 83 in Nice i have the the choice between James Brown and Miles that i didn t know on ”La parade du Jazz” a friend tell me go to Miles so i went what a slap in my face since i was fan and have the chance that he love to come in Nice every year i never miss him .
I never listen to Miles Davis until I seen that documentary about him on Netflix …then I became a major fan. It gave me the context of why I should appreciate him I suggest everybody watch it. It’s pretty damn good.😊
4:21 Ron Carter has played on more jazz albums than perhaps any other artist. What a legend and he is still touring.
And this was already true decades ago. I used to hear him on college FM stations (eclectic or jazz programs). To me he was a chameleon - whatever the vibe was he melted right into it. Like, if there was not a note out of place, that was Ron Carter. I loved Jaco, too, but he was kinda the opposite - in two notes you know he's making Jaco sounds, Jaco rhythms and intervals.
I caught him recently with his quartet (Foursight). They were fantastic. They seemed on a different level.
There is no greater joy than shopping for records and seeing Ron Carter on the credits. I have bought every one I have found, haven’t counted but I must have 150 at least. I mean, I swear I am underestimating…
Sonny stitt made more jazz albums than perhaps any other artist
Listening to musicians talk about their craft is fabulous, but listening to musicians talk about another musician’s craft, like this, is even better
Gr8!❤❤❤ nuff said. :)
Excellent observation.
I love Miles stories. This stuff is music nerd gold.
i could listen to Ron Carter talk 24/7
Likewise 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
The Maestro!
His UA-cam channel is awesome as well. He’s definitely the goat of bass players most certainly of studio jazz players
As a sax player, I grew up listening to Bird, Cannonball, Coltrane, etc, but there was always something about Miles Davis that accentuated and elevated the collaborations. It doesn’t matter if it’s rainy, stressful, sunny or depressed, Miles transcends all moods.
I grew up listening to a radio and sneaking into the family room and listening to my brother’s 45’s. Then The Beatles came along and the other British Invasion bands and American rock and pop . Then a friend in high school played John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme album for me and I wasn’t sure I liked it because it was out there to me. Then I heard Miles Kind of Blue and I got it. Miles music was something I could appreciate . I eventually broadened my mind enough so that I can appreciate Coltrane’s music now more than I could as a teenager. Miles music helped me discover my love of jazz.
@@danielcombs3207 I started the exact same way with the Beatles, then my musical awakening continued to build.
I can't help but think of all the band leaders Miles had in his bands.
* Miles -> Chick Corea -> Return to Forever
* Miles -> Herbie Hancock -> Headhunters
* Miles -> Joe Zawinul -> Weather Report
* Miles -> John McLaughlin -> Mahavishnu Orchestra
And consider this lineage:
(Charlie Parker) -> Miles -> Bill Evans -> Paul Motian -> Bill Frisell -> ...
It's not just that he played and influenced great players, but he was instrumental (no pun intended) in getting new influencial bands formed.
.....I remember seeing Herbie Hancock play in Australia and he would have (one-way) conversations with the audience. Jazz he said is all about "sharing".
He distilled it all down to one word which started to make sense to me and revealed to why Jazz musicians are generally different "cats" from the rest of the music and entertainment industry
Not to forget Marcus Miller!
I remember how I discovered Miles. I was in college. I knew the musical spawn of Miles. I started talking about these people with some guy on the same floor of the dorm. Even though he was my age, he was somehow steeped in the history of jazz (which was not a cool thing at the time). He told me all these guys played with Miles before they went on to other bands. Blew my mind that one guy was such a nexus of jazz talent.
You forgot one very important one: Miles -> John Coltrane. Maybe Coltrane wasn't a 'band leader' per se, but he certainly lead a very important quartet.
@@ralphnunn3 Most definitely - Coltrane was a rare musical gift to the world
As a kid I used to put on ”Sketches of Spain” when no one else was home. I thought it was magical but I couldn’t say why. It still is. And I still can’t… Thank you Rick for putting this together.
Me, too. I was a little surprised that wasn't on Rick's list of albums.
My wife was associated with the summer Stanford Jazz Workshop series for a couple of years. They had one week for adults, and two weeks for kids. They contacted every single kid a week before the sessions started, and part of that communication essentially said "If you want to do yourselves a lifelong favor, go get a copy of 'Kind of Blue' if you don't already own it."
The reason I became a Jazz Trumpeter. When I was 16 I went into a record store (remember them?) and picked up a recording of Miles live in concert in 1964, the famous one with My Funny Valentine, Stella By Starlight etc. I’d never even heard Miles before and it completely blew my mind.
I’d never heard anything like it and to today it’s still my go to Miles album. I transcribed all the incredible solos and quickly learned all about Miles, his music and his incredible influence on music generally. His music completely changed my life.
I have listened to Miles Davis almost everyday for over thirty years. Two standout things, first his trumpet has a “pained” sound that “physically” resonates with his listeners. This is coupled with a stand alone “style” that makes his virtuosity untouchable
Like his style and sound or not, Miles' sound concept came from his inability to initially match the bravura virtuosic sounds and tones of his (then-1940's) contemporaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Harry James and Charlie Shavers. People think Miles had a hard upbringing but that wasn't the case. He ALWAYS pointed out that his father was a successful dentist in St. Louis, and they lived on a farm, plus attended Julliard. People often mistook Miles' "aloofness" for being rude. He was just shy and never was too big on talking. He'd rather just do something musical or paint to express his soul.
@@chasefreak Interesting point of view. You can't avoid his style influence and unique sound though
It's really interesting to have Robben Ford's experience juxtaposed with Ron Carter's… I think Miles was a very different person in the '80s than he was in the '60s, and the experience his band members had with him reflected that.
From the Biopic I saw I'd say you are spot on.
One was a band, and the other was a back-up band.
In the 80s Miles had a comeback after 5 years of drug abuse and no playing his instrument at all
My first jazz album was Kind Of Blue. That opened up my mind to accept more free form styles of music.
THIS. Kind of Blue has been my favorite album ever since the first time I ever heard it over 30 years ago.
Miles Davis 14 July 1990 playing at the Jazz Festival in my small German hometown, amid a medieval fortress. Playing with his back to the audience all the time. But absolutely legendary. After he was there, the following years all the jazz stars queued up to participate.
such an incredible detail, back to the audience the whole time, and we are all left envious that you got to watch his back
I grew up 🆙 with Miles Davis music 🎶♾️ as I grew up 🆙 with Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Mussorgsky, STRAVINSKY, BARTÒK, SHOSTAKOVICH, PROKOFIEV; ARNOLD; BAX ; BRITTEN;……
MILES DAVIS MUSIC 🎶 IS ETERNAL 💎♾️🦋🌞🎵🎼👂⚡️
Thank you 🙏🏼 for reminding us of the importance of Miles Davis through this video. 💎
Ditto
I grew up in 1970s Britain hearing ska, reggae and chart music. Whenever I read interviews about the artists I admired talking about the music they loved, the name Miles Davis would frequently come up, regardless of genre. That intrigued me enough to find out how he was - I'm glad that I did.
I'm waiting for Rick Beato to do a show on Prince. Rick can easily do any of Prince's live show stuff and it not be taken off UA-cam. Prince was a musical genius and it's about time for Rick to do a show on him.
There were all these amazing rock acts at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. And then Miles came on with the Bitches Brew band endlessly ebbing and flowing, hitting highs and lows dynamically in music that had never been heard before. Miles made 500,000 people (and me) hear music from a different perspective.
In the late 80's I saw him in Sydney, Australia with that Ricky Wellman go-go funk thing. For me Miles is so important to music, not only jazz and fusion music
Decades of listening now and I still can't get over how massively creative, talented, visionary and tenacious Miles was! Still chasing down the stories and sounds of this giant, who showed us that he played music, not just jazz!
As a kid back in the 80's, I was total music nerd who was learning to play the drums, guitar and some keys. When I turned 16 my best friend wanted to buy me a couple of cool albums as a present. He went to the big record shop in town and said "I want to buy 2 records for my friends birthday. I think he would like really jazz, but I don't know anything about it." He got sent home with Kind of Blue and Time Out and it really did change me forever. It opened me up to a ton of amazing music that I was consuming alongside all those great acts of the 80's.
I love hearing all the stories from guys that played with any of the all-time greats, especially Miles.
I have always loved that Miles Davis sound. It was so unique, creative, and soulful. That was how he communicated, through his trumpet.
I knew nothing about jazz or MD. Then I listened to Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew. The difference between the two was so startling that I've been a huge fan ever since. Check out the Cellar Door Sessions from 1970, there is a special energy going on here.
I was lucky enough to see Miles pass through Seattle during my last attendance of Cornish Institute. That would have been the "You're Under Arrest" Tour, I believe, with John Scofield on Guitar. Then, I managed to see Jaco Pastorius later that year. Somewhere in that brief time I was at Cornish when Bobby McFerrin did a symposium in a smallish classroom (maybe 70 people in attendance), a couple of years before "Don't Worry, Be Happy" broke him bigtime. Very fond thoughts and insights, and transcendental days, then. Something like them may come again.
Miles Davis always sounds new, no matter how often you listen to him. That's what makes him so great! I've been doing that for almost 60 years now. One of my favorites is the CD box 'The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel'. Here, Miles' second quintet plays standards in the freest, most conceivable way. As a guitarist, I still learn from Miles every day. He once pointed out the phrasing and timing of Frank Sinatra, whom he greatly admired. I immediately bought Sinatra CDs and Miles was right. What an inspiration and what a greatness!
Miles has the most breathtaking discography, from Birth Of The Cool, the Prestige albums, Kind Of Blue to E.S.P. Nefertiti to Bitches Brew, On The Corner, Agharta to Decoy, etc. Just unreal!
Saw Miles perform once on the Amandla tour. Great seats, front and center. So glad I went.
15:37 I listened to Miles my whole life and this is exactly him, his music. Listen to the music you have in your head, don't play it and play on the spaces. Genius
Genius at the true sense of the word
I recommend Miles Davis at Fillmore. It's a live album recorded over four days at the Fillmore East. It's pure energy. One of the most energetic albums I've ever heard, but it also has some spaced-out reflective moments too. Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira, and a sax player whose name I'm forgetting right now play the shows.
Steve Grossman on sax
There's a lot of them
‘It’s About That Time’
Thank you for these wonderful interview clips, Rick!
My parents took me to my first ever jazz concert when I was 10 years old. It was Miles Davis with his "Bitches Brew" band! So many people at the concert had hoped to hear the former acoustic quintet (including my parents) and walked out on the electric band. The rest of us who stayed to hear this new music (including my parents) were ecstatic!!
After that, they often found me listening on headphones to Bitches Brew or A Tribute to Jack Johnson as my start on the music of Miles Davis. I was lucky enough to hear him in concert a couple more times, and my love of his recordings stretches back to Birth of the Cool and discs by his first great quintet through a fair number of the fusion recordings. Of course, I ended up buying most of the Columbia-Sony remastered boxes of his CDs (including one box containing his work with arranger Gil Evans) and they are fabulous! As are a number of others, too (including Live at the Blackhawk, Friday & Saturday Nights; Cookin'; Relaxin'; Workin'; Steamin').
I listen to much more jazz by other artists, and Miles Davis' music and recordings are very much the foundation for me, along with recordings by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Mingus and Dolphy, Oscar Peterson and NHOP, etc.
Sitting around a campfire under the stars in the Rockies with a head full of shrooms and Bitches Brew on the portable...well it's something I remember 35 years later.
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Not only is Miles Davis one of the most influential musicians ever but he also has probably the most consistently masterful discography's ever all the while completely doing something different and ground breaking every time. People talk about which band has had a perfect 5 album run and will struggle to name even a few. And then here comes Miles with his perfect 15 - 20 album run. absolute machine
Miles shared with Count Basie the unique ability to convey so much with so little, sometimes just a single note.
15:35 This is such good advice!
It felt like the time someone told me to, as a rule , try to avoid the root note as much as possible in a solo (the root note is lava), which will make you play (totally) other lines than you would normally play.
I read a biography about Miles 20 some years ago as a teen, and was blown away by his genius. He was on another level, and he surrounded himself with like musicians. They were very competitive and created a music scene that thrived and grew on itself. The most amazing story I remember was how Miles would hear noises in regular life, and know EXACTLY the note, and play it on the trumpet. He could hear the sound of a door squeaking and instantly could imitate it on a trumpet. He is a GENIUS. And not to mention all the geniuses that came out of playing with him like John Coltrane, an absolute legend in his own right. After Kind of Blue, Coltrane got nothing but better. In a biography I read on coltrane around the same time, I recall that apart from genres of music and piano music books and harp music books, Coltrane studied songs of Birds, to the same point that he could hear a bird singing and imitate it on his horn. Sounds like something Miles would have taught him.
Don't read his autobiography (written with Quincy Troupe)! You don't want to know how he was in his personal life.
@@kylec2761 I'm almost positive that's what I read after seeing the book cover. Miles was a very eccentric person, a true artist like Prince, sometimes their personal lives were very bizarre. Anything from that book in particular about his personal life upset you? I'd love to hear about it.
There's a video on UA-cam literally of a creaking door which sounds like Miles...I made a track out of it 😊
@@ajadrew I've seen that before! I've seen another before where someone moved a plastic container across a surface and it sounded like Coltranes saxophone. "Trash can sounds like John Coltrane"
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" Live, Evil " and "On the Corner" was my introduction ... and I was hooked
My musical life was shaped by Miles and what he gave to the world. His insights taught us all how to think freely and play what we felt! Bless his memory!
Miles is the Greatest! Saw him three times live....unrivaled.
"Sketches of Spain" was what drew me into Miles and indeed into jazz. It's not mentioned here but I think it's probably easier to get than the more straght ahead jazz albums recommended. On another note, there's an interview with John McLaughlin talking about Miles' generosity when John was starting out in New York. Miles would slip him the occasional $100 bill when JM was hard up!
My go to Miles album is Agharta. I love all the others, but as a guitar & bass player this one trips my trigger.
That's quite possibly my favourite Miles album. Shame about the CD's though, I've never heard a good one.
And its companion Pangaea as well. Both are as 'out there' as it gets!✌👍
I had a General Ed class in college (Jazz in America). Went through Scott Joplin to modern jazz - at that time it was ~1990. The instructor encouraged me to go see Miles Davis in Oakland, CA Paramount Theater in 1990. Amazing show.
I actually bought Rubberband when it came out in 2019, and I was blown away by the album (especially given the date of recording) This was supposed to be an album that just sat on the shelf because it wasn't "good enough" for other albums, but that only goes to show you how innovative Miles was when it came to developing new and interesting music.
Is there a reason you haven't done anything with John Mclaughlin?? An absolute titan.
I have been having the same question for a long time…Rick?
I second that motion!
Amen to that
He has
@@CorbCorbin not seeing that .. when? McLaughlin played with Miles so you think he would be in this segment.. are you mistaken for Al Dimeola
Pauldav recommends Live at the Fillmore. Tremendous. Here's mine. Back in the late 70's I was listening to Miles Round Midnight. Just grooving, I was about 19-20. Incredible. 2 guitar playing buddies and I went to Baltimore to see Allan Holdsworth with Jeff Berlin and Dave Weckl. Steve Morse opened. The scene was a hole in the wall hotel, black paint everywhere and the show was delayed because the power went out. It was hot in there and Allan was drinking hot beer and upset and throwing it on the floor etc. They finally hit and after the show, Jeff Berlin set his bass down and walked off the stage. Everybody looked at each other and followed him. I was right behind him and he walked into the old lobby to the door and turned around and started talking. There was a crowd around him and I stood next to him to his left. All he talked about was Miles. Most of the cats were drummers, bassist, keyboardists and of course guitar players. I could tell by their comments and questions. I played trombone so my questions and comments were different. He told us that Allan and the British guitarists had no concept of playing rhythm. I thought of Mclaughlin and Jeff said yeah, he's on Miles' Tribute to Jack Johnson and went back to talking about Miles. There's pictures of me and Jeff and Allan somewhere. Anyway the next day I held Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson in my hands and I bought Jack Johnson. The next week I went back and bought Bitches Brew and that blew my mind. Later the Fillmore and Live Evil.
I took Bitches Brew to a friend's who had some Bose 901s and one of his buddies came by and said oh Miles Runs The Voodoo down. I was like you know Miles? And he said yeah. Then he said something I'll never forget. He said man you got to hear this one that Miles has these two bad guitar players on it. He said the name of it but I don't remember.
One night maybe a few years later I was at Tower Records in Miles' section holding two expensive two album sets. We Want Miles and this album with a space ship and underwater stuff on it. I did this for several weeks. One night the salesman walked up and I asked what are these two about. He said the yellow one is Miles' comeback from retirement album. Kind of laid back with Marcus Miller and Mike Stern. But this other one I was looking at him and a grin came over his face he said this one has these 2 baaad guitar players on it. I remember what that guy said and hurried up and bought it and played as soon as I got home. The first note, I was like aw sh-t and the rest is history. Those 2 guitar players were Reggie Lucas and the incomparable Pete Cosey.
I've discovered stuff with Miles that I haven't heard with anyone else. I have to go in a different direction and listen praise and worship like Richard Smallwood....
I will never forget his show in Wiesen / Austria sometime in the Eighties. There was of course no internet at that time. We just knew that Miles was doing something new. And than they played "Decoy" and everybody was in (positive) shock. Nobody had expected that. It was like a storm. So much energy.
Hear whats in your head, dont play it, then play in the space might be one of the most brilliant words of musical wisdom i've heard in a long time. Fascinating stories!
You could say it about all the greats. But. THERE WAS NO ONE, like Miles Davis. When you listen to Miles music. It goes DEEP into you. All over. And he is never in a hurry. Like a great lover 🙏🏻☺️🎼🎵🎵♥️
a bunch of legendary musicians talking about the most legendary jazz musician,
And, as usual, great recommendations. I have some of them in either lp, k7 or cd. And kind of blue? multiple copies.
Miles opened my ears with "Kind of Blue" which I heard at 15 (in Scotland) on Willis Conover's program on V.O.A.
I've listened to all of these interviews in total but I still enjoyed this compilation!
A friend, brought me to his neighbors house. He was playing Bitches Brew. I was a drummer playing rock. Carl would introduce me to Weather Report, Return To Forever. I can’t get enough of this info and interviews. Thank you.
Since years Miles is part of my life - its funny how sometimes you are able to discover your musical destiny - studying far from home every Wednesday there were jazz concerts for students - local club… most of the time really good musicians but I was not into Jazz - at that time it was all about blues SRV Eric Jeff etc… one evening I went there to kill the time - and this evening famous Polish trumpet player had a gig - Tomasz Stanko… I only remember being mesmerized the whole 2 hours - leaving the club with my head with sounds I just experienced… and natural next step was to discover one of the Greatest Musicians of all times… Miles - since then I fall in love with Jazz - but Miles (and Mr Stanko) is this first most intensive experience :) Thank you Rick - your channels are priceless - best stuff on YT!
Nicely done.😊
I have owned "Bitches Brew", an album I could be stranded on a deserted island with, since it came out in 1970.
It is a nice soundtrack for when you want Miles' "space trumpet" to help you leave your body. 😁
I got in to Miles in my early 20's, so over 30 years ago, and I will say that I don't think Miles is the best trumpet player, not compared to the likes of Dizzy, Louis Armstrong or even Lee Morgan, but he was one of the greatest band leaders of all time. He inspired those around him, and was constantly innovating and changing the course of jazz.
I would heartily recommend reading his autobiography (simply called "Miles - The Autobiography"). It's like an encyclopaedia of jazz history, his thoughts on constantly creating, and his interactions with other jazz legends throughout the years. It also has some hilarious stories in it too. The book is so good I bought it a second time after loaning it to someone (and never saw it again), and both ended up worn out and dog-eared because I referred to it so often.
I agree personally Lee Morgan is my favorite Trumpet player but Miles was the definitive musical artist of the 20th century!!!!
@@sirjer73 Allegedly (I wasn't there so can't confirm) Miles once said in an interview "Lee Morgan was the baddest trumpet player out there. Badder than Diz, badder than me...". I can see that. He isn't as famous as many other jazz trumpeters, but those who have listened to him know how good he was.
@@jipster2020Before my dad passed away he told me his oldest brother , uncle John lived with Lee Morgan , in a church steeple. My uncle John had a brilliant musical mind he could hear music and transcribe it on the spot. He was an Altoist but had a bad habit which allow him to close proximity with cats like Lee Morgan and Stanley Turrentine who I met as a child. Also apparently Alice Coltrane shouted him out in a book she wrote. John from St.Louis is how she phrased it. He gave John Coltrane a special mouth piece.
@@sirjer73 That is history. I'm a 53 yr old English white guy, and I started playing trumpet because of Miles Davis over 30 years ago, that's how influential he is to me, and I have to say that reading his autobiography opened up a totally different perspective on jazz history. You mentioned the "bad habit" - yeah it was rampant, and nearly all the greats had that "bad habit". Billy Holiday, Miles, Coltrane and Bird for sure.
From Miles' autobiography, I also learned that fame & success, no matter how well earned, wasn't quite so appreciated in a country that was still very racist back then. And, when I say "very", I mean "VERY" !
It's 2024 - maybe one day this shit will be over...
I am a dyed in the wool rock fan, but my favorite album of all time is definitely Kind of Blue.
It's the "Beethoven's 5th" of Jazz
I still remember the first time I put the CD Kind of Blue into the CD player in my car and started driving. I never got to any of my errands. Just kept driving until it ended. The only other time I felt that way was the first time I heard Dark Side of the Moon. It was that visceral.
I loved how the second individual talked about music. This is a good topic.... 👍
I remember the first time I listed to 'Kind of Blue' - mind blown. Then, the subsequent times I listened to it, so many things fell into place in my head musically after that. It is hard to understate the influence that Miles Davis had on music.
Mr Beato, this set of conversations with Davis sidemen is outtasight. For any aficionado of the genre and student of modern music, this exposure is really important. Thank you.
Miles Davis, "The Picasso of modern music". He changed the course of music three or four times, his lasting influence doesn't come as a surprise
Did you know he was also the “Pele of Jazz”?
The "Kind of Blue" period 💙
@@Squirrelconga Even before that, the album "Birth of the Cool" (cool jazz/west coast jazz ), the album "Bitches Brew" (Jazz-rock/fusion style jazz) and "Doo Bop" (Hip Jazz). Just three albums that just changed the course of modern music. Miles was a trend setter. What he did, everybody else learned from.
@@smelltheglove2038 Sports and Art can't really be compared.
Miles Davis or Stravinsky, both worthy of the title...
Mood - my all time favorite late night tune.
The story that Warren Haynes told about Miles telling somebody to "play in the space"..... genius. It's like when Oscar Peterson said "Music is what happens between the notes." ..... These guys are simply in another dimension.
Definitely do more of these Rick! Thank you. How is Sketches of Spain not on your list? What he achieved with Gil Evans was extraordinary.
Huge Chick Corea fan. Very intrigued by the mention of the “troubles” he had with Miles. I’ll have to try to find more about that on the net.
Love, love, love, love Miles Davis! ❤🎺
As a Modern HipHop artist Miles has been a big influence on me & I studied his influences
Well done. There are LOADS things to sample on his records. Jack Johnson is a good one to mine.
@@jedwing I got an album that I gotta re record that samples a lot of his work but I’m staying away from sampling imma still release songs that I already did with samples but I wanna create more original sounds using instruments and the computer sounds etc I wanna learn Music theory master some instruments , I’m not gonna be a rapper who just tryna spit bars but a HipHop artist who thinks like a composer/Musician who write Brillant Songs/Albums I’m already doing that now bro imma Link some of my albums
100 years from now people will still be playing Kind of blue … says it all. Genius!!! 🙏🏼
Two of my very favorite jazz albums Kind of Blue and Time Out. I can listen to those albums and it makes me feel so good. Brilliant musicianship. Beautiful arrangements by the masters of the craft.
Rick I came here for the Miles videos and subscribed to both channels. Great content
Just love these Miles Davis stories and any musician who has ever played with him, always feels obliged to do the impression of Miles, even Keith Jarrett which I found surprising. So many amazing quotes from the master.
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“I think it's much more important to know some good Miles Davis stories than to know how to play like Miles. I think you'll play better if you know some of the funny things he did than if you know the licks that he played.” - Sonny Sharrock
Miles Davis, Two albums, Miles in the Sky, Filles de Kilimanjaro, two overlooked albums.😊
Tony Williams was on absolute fire on those two albums
always considered him a formative influence growing up spending my teens and 20s in really abrasive punk metal crossover bands. a rulebreaker.
I share my birthday with Miles Davis; The G.O.A.T 😎
Nice to hear the great John Scofield talking about Gary Grainger. I hosted Gary here in 2013, very cool Cat 👌🏿
Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤
The best Beato yet. Miles Davis wow!
😊@ 16:15 Warren says ... it's an awsome definition. Call and responce between your head and your instrument. This whole segment is 🔆🔅🎸🎶🎵🐬🐬🐬🐬
I loved this, too. If your head knows the genre, it's already getting ideas about what comes next. So play something different and give yourself and the audience a surprise. That other part is already playing in everybody's head so you don't need to play it for everybody to hear it. I notice this a lot with good musicians in all different kinds of music.
Big Miles fan. Ron Carter's tunes were neither on Seven Steps or Miles Smiles. They were on ESP. Love this video!!
When I met my two friends David K and Jamey B who played bass and sax/flute respectively, they said Man you gotta listen to Miles!!! The first thing was So What and I was hooked!!! From there I went early and then later and then beyond. He was a real student of music. Miles and Ellington and some Mingus and some others like Marion Brown all TAUGHT me how to LISTEN and I still do.
To me, one note from Miles sounds more moving, emotional and captivating than a hundred notes from most musicians.
one of the coolest concerts i've ever seen was a tribute to Miles and Coltrane and unlike most cover bands this one had Herrbie on Piano, Brian Blade on trumpet, John Pattituci on bass, Michael Brecker on sax and i forget the drummer but these guys were really on that night, it was sick
Brian Blade on *drums*, yeah? So who was the poor/foolhardy/heroic trumpeter standing in Miles's shoes?
@@satsukikorin dude this was easily 20 years ago, maybe 25 and I a) don't listen to jazz anymore nor have I in a long, long time but I also have a nuerological disease that affects my memory so you can politely correct me or be the dick you are. bottom line was i was at that concert and you weren't
I saw that show also that was in 2021, it would have been the 75th birthday for Miles and Trane. It was Herbie Hancock on Piano, Michael Brecker on Sax, I believe Roy Hargrove on Trumpet, John P on bass and I couldn't remember the drummers name but he played like Tony Williams. It was at Powell Sympany Hall in midtown St. Louis, a great acoustic venue that the St. Louis Orchestra uses.
I mean 2001 when that tribute tour took place
@@sirjer73 yeah that sounds about right. i was in my mid twenties so it was over 25 years ago
Hello Rick. I truly enjoy both of your channels, and am a subscriber. I enjoy most genres of music, but I am particularly impressed by your knowledge of jazz. I would love it if you would do a comprehensive video about the bop era, which I am trying to learn about. I just discovered the piano artistry of Bud Powell, and am blown away by his music. Keep em coming! JWarner
I remember once in Detroit at the Old Ford Auditorium he didn’t even acknowledge the fact that people were present ❤the crowd was on every single note he played 😂
One of the all-time greatest albums of the 90s that no one ever talks about…Rollins Band (End of Silence)
I saw Miles Davis at Massey Hall Toronto -1990. Probably my fondest memory of a live concert. I liked your choices for entry lps but I would go with a more career spanning approach: Someday My Prince Will Come; In a Silent Way; Jack Johnson; and Decoy.
Your broadcasts are in the top ten of all interweb casts ❤
My dream was to play with Miles or Zappa... my musical heroes.
Hey Rick. Thank you for introducing me to Keith Jarett. I absolutely love it.
I recently did a "tally" of my LP/CD collection of 50+ years.
Miles still has the lead at 40+ recordings.
While in college (circa 1975) I lived with a Jazz bassist who educated me on the musical importance of Miles Davis.
Met with Miles back in 1990 at his hotel room and spent the afternoon showing him a neat midi trumpet interface. A much longer story, but I do have a jam of use playing together. As. trumpet player it was a great experience for me when I was in NYC working.
If you still have the recording of that session, and would be comfortable sharing-I would love it hear it, or use it for sampling. I’ve made instrumentals for several artists and having something so organic like this to pull from would really blow me away!A raw recording of a legend jamming with a midi trumpet interface from a stranger that I happened to digitally run into on UA-cam? Insanely dope!
Please fr lmk . All love ❤️ . Many blessings 🖖👌🙏
@@Teddybearjenkins69 Sorry, I can't do that.
I'd add Bitches Brew and Sketches of Spain to your starting point albums as each offers a distinctive (and essential) flavor of his work.
'on the corner' is an album I refer to often as a rhythm section player (bass drums) It's fun to jam with late at night when I have a bit of a buzz. I aways learn something new about myself.
Phantastic advise reported by Warren Haynes.
Miles was the master of space as the space between phrases was just as important as each note.
Also, his associating color with notes and/or how those notes were expressed made him a painter with sound. The no rehearsal aspect made every performance a blank canvas for Miles. 😊
I saw miles a couple of times live he did an epic version of human nature similar to the live recording of time after time but even better...i wish sombody would've recorded that one still gives me chills
As a modern HipHop artist Mr Davis has been a big influence on me💯
Miles was such a pure artist and relentless innovator. He was Miles ahead. His music never gets old.
My favourite Miles music is on Tutu and I realize he didn’t write it but his performance is amazing on it .Great interview with great players.
I became a Miles Davis fan with Bitches Brew, because it was being compared to Electric Ladyland. Next it was Jack Johnson with John McLaughlin, then Live / Evil, for Airto. After that, done deal for me ...😊 🎉 ❤ Also, really in the beginning for me also, was with Charlie Parker's A Night In Tunisia.
Epic Episode!
The only time Miles played with a full orchestra was "Miles Ahead" and "Sketches of Spain". Aside from "Kind of Blue", my favorites.
I love listening to Miles, Lee Morgan and Louis Armstrong and countless other wonderful trumpeters.
Miles was a genius and I loved Robben Ford when he played with The Yellowjackets
It was in 83 in Nice i have the the choice between James Brown and Miles that i didn t know on ”La parade du Jazz” a friend tell me go to Miles so i went what a slap in my face since i was fan and have the chance that he love to come in Nice every year i never miss him .
I saw Miles once in Brussels in 1988, so wonderful.
I never listen to Miles Davis until I seen that documentary about him on Netflix
…then I became a major fan. It gave me the context of why I should appreciate him
I suggest everybody watch it. It’s pretty damn good.😊