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I’ve always loved how Miles goes off camera to have a smoke while the rest of the band take their turns. The band includes Miles Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderley on alto sax, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. They are all on the Mt. Everest of the legends of jazz. Your puffer fish comments were funny. You should see Freddie Hubbard play. That man’s cheeks could hide a small car. Thanks for another jazz reaction Polo.
Yeah, those cheeks get bigger over time. It's apparently a medical condition from certain muscles stretching too much or something? Glass blowers get it too.
The greatest selling jazz album of all time and an album everyone should have in their collection or have a few songs on their playlist, late at night, when you need to seriously chill and just zone out, no vocals, so tasty and delicious; Coltrane reminds me of modern guitar players, his ability to play arpeggios on a sax is mind blowing, all genius players at the top of their game
@@JPMadden I think Coltrane’s “Blue Trane” is a comparable pairing with this Miles classic as well, at least, I always end up listening to them together.
Love how Coltrane often gets going with these like little practice runs before he finally hits the ramp at full speed and blasts off to another planet.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW "Blue Train" is one of the many I ripped onto my computer from my father's collection of hundreds of jazz albums. I don't remember the last time I listened to it.
@@JPMadden It’s truly astounding, “Soul Trane” is as well. But, having visited those frequently, I really like to dig into some of the stuff where he really gets lost in it and just blasts off into space.. kind of noisy atonal free form jamming, it makes for a bit of a challenging listen, but both “Impressions” and “Expressions” get really intense. Someone just getting into jazz should definitely hold off on that stuff, as well as some Ornette Coleman.. but once you can get into those more complex compositions, the payoff is freakin HUGE.
This choice of artist was an excellent and unexpected pleasure. Miles was a truly gifted man. He had many “demons” in life but when he played he became the song and it was beautiful.
I have owned three of this vinyl since it first came out in 1959. Wore the first two out. Amazing album with some of the best of the era on this album "Kinda Blue" Each song was recorded in just one take.
I really like how you're not just listening to these videos to react to them but more to learn about the genre and how to appreciate the music. Very cool my man 🤘🤙
Love Miles!!! I feel like some jazz just needs to be heard. His is a good sit down outside with a cup of coffee or tea, enjoying the outdoors, feeling the music and nature.
A total classic. Miles changed jazz. The entire album is a masterpiece! The great Bill Evans on piano. Quincy Jones played second trumpet with Miles. So many jazz greats were in his band. From Google: “ Kind of Blue brought together seven now-legendary musicians in the prime of their careers: tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Jimmy Cobb and, of course, trumpeter Miles Davis.”
Wow, this takes me back to a child in the mid 80s and early 90s! Jamming out with my dad! My father was huge into jazz (he could play most instruments, but preferred the Sax) and got me into jazz until the 90s hit! But Miles Davis was my favorite musician (until TOOL) and I played the trumpet in band from 5th to 8th grade because of him! I still listen to his music today and always will, because he was a big part of my childhood and introduction to music!!!
I love the trombone player just puffing on a cigarette between entrances. The good old days lol. I got into your channel because you were reacting to Tool and such. I also grew up playing Jazz trumpet. Love your taste in videos
Two weeks in the hospital and they wouldn't let me on the net. Who ever heard of such? Anyway. this was the first video in way too long. But what a selection. Thanks for this one. Miles stood alone among the greats.
You probably need to listen to some jazz vocalist because that's what you are probably used to, people singing. Even though I'm saying this I will leave you with another Miles Davis tune called If I Were a Bell. It is such an easy tune to fall in love with. I believe you will listen to over and over again. If you do take a listen would you please leave a comment of if you like it or not. ua-cam.com/video/36wafFjFdYs/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ProfessorOak
There is a reason that Kind of Blue is still the highest selling jazz album of all time. It marked the switch from the be-bop style of playing into modal jazz.
Dude! This song is so LEGIT!!!! Marcus Miller (a bassist who played with Miles at one point) does a FIRE version of this. Miles Davis is phenomenal!!! MIles' second Quintet had an all-star line up: Miles, Ron Carter on Bass, Tony Williams on drums, Wayne Shorter on Sax, and Herbie Hancock on Piano. Ron holds the world record for most recorded bassist in Jazz history with over 2,200 credits. He plays on everything!!!!
I've got a curve ball to throw you. Most folk only know "Take Five" as an instrumental by Dave Brubeck, with Paul Desmond on Alto sax. Here's a vocal version that came out years later by the amazing Al Jurreau. I really hope you enjoy this for another reaction. Much live from NOLA! ua-cam.com/video/39xsZu_IRrM/v-deo.html
Exactly. That version by Jarreau will blow your mind. I think that is the type of song that people who doesn't listen to jazz should start with, because it will keep their attention and let their ears get used to hearing jazz.
Miles had the smoothest sound of any trumpet player in existence. There’s a tonne of REALLY good trumpet players around but no one sounded as cool as miles did.
My mum used to listen to a lot of jazz when I was growing up so I’ve heard of Miles Davis and John Coltrane and So what is a classic also blue in green is another famous tune by him
Not everyone's cuppa tea I can understand that. But 'Kind of Blue' album is an absolute classic. If you never heard of Miles Davis in the Netherlands we have a saying, freely translated "That is a lack or poor upbringing". Whether you like it or not, you listen to Miles/Jazz and that way you recognize, memorize, you never forget who the great musician Miles Davis was. A legend.
Finally subbed today, after watching and enjoying your reactions to innumerable tunes across many genres. You’re one of the best I’ve found on the net. Keep on doing what you’re doing. Upper 5% tier.
Miles' bands were a revolving door of great musicians. This band represents Miles' jazz peak in late 1950s. A decade later, Miles, with a different but also great band, would shape a new genre called fusion where he brought elements of rock into a jazz sound.
So now that you’re easing into Jazz … Charle Parker has you’re next jam 😊 IMHO Tool is the Charle Parker of modern music progression … and yeah it’s time to think about being high and then just magikly being high … that’s what Charle Parker is … and Miles and Dizzy made it so …. jazz man 🐉 chase it😼
Love that you’re getting into jazz. It brings back memories with my late husband having Sunday champagne jazz brunch on the Cumberland river on 2nd Avenue in Nashville every weekend. Another jazzy tune to check out are songs Stevie Ray Vaughan wrote called Riviera Paradise and Lenny. Please make a SRV Playlist.
Two of my all time favorite albums are by Miles, Kinda Blue (this song) and Bitche’s Brew. Man, I love bebop and sub genres of Jazz. Cannonball Adderly, Coltrane, Turrentine, Ornett Coleman, Stan Kenton Quartet, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, etc., as well as classic rock and blues. Thanks for the jazz. 👍
Massive respect for giving Miles a listen. And this isn't the easiest of intros to his work. Please persist - its worth it. Miles has super fast, Bebop era stuff, with Coltrane, that is pure fun (good next stop). But also does almost classical pieces like Sketches of Spain, to super cool jazz like In a Silent Way, to experimental/psychedelic stuff on Bitches Brew.
This is the kind of jazz I find easiest to listen to if your ear is more trained for listening to rock and roll and simpler forms of music. I think it's called modal jazz, and it doesn't have nearly as complex melodies and chord changes as styles like bebop, so I think it's more comprehensible to people new to the genre. I don't really go much further than this modal stuff in jazz - it takes so much listening to learn to hear it properly.
It's only just recently that I've actually picked up on what Miles is doing with his solos. I've always loved his music, but never really worked out what was great about his trumpet playing. It's really hit me more recently.
Check out the French movie Elevator to the Gallows....most movies have a classical writer, arranger, for the sound track. In this movie Miles stands and watches the movie track and improvises the sound track.....incredible
I paused one minute in and typed out a full response, touching on my own lack of love for jazz, then how my Dad saw Miles Davis in concert 6 times before I was born and how every performance was unique and inspiring, and my own sentimental connection to my Dad being a wicked stand-up bass and boogie woogie piano player, and how we finally connected musically over those live performances...then I clicked play and realized, wait no, that's a horn guy. I was thinking of Dave Brubeck. Never mind.
Comment for the algorithm! And also to fangirl about jazz. I hope you open up to loving jazz. There's so many genres just within jazz itself, there's something for everyone.
For a little historical context, Miles Davis changed jazz (not for the first or last time!) with this track and album (Kind of Blue). Before then most jazz was based around soloing over complicated chord changes. With this album, and So What especially, Davis pared back all the chord changes (So What only has two chords) so that players could solo over a single mode--the Dorian mode in this case. This basically gave players much more freedom for melodic improvisation as they weren't limited by having to follow the chord changes. The entire album has this laid-back, meditative, flowy vibe to it that's just magical. It's also worth noting that Davis would radically change how they played this piece over the years. It kept getting faster and faster, and by the time of his live albums of the mid-to-late 60s he'd take it at a blistering, punishing pace. One awesome thing about jazz is how malleable tracks are when played live.
There are like 5 of the best jazz tunes of all time on Kind of Blue. Flamenco Sketches being the most beautiful song I've ever had the privilege of listing to.
Actually, I think _Bitches Brew_ is more cocaine oriented. I think it was Joe Zawinul who said he never knew when they were recording it was so chaotic and loose.
The main thing is that you've got both ears now planted right in the beating heart of American classical music, which is to say Black American music. My only advice is: keep listening! Listen to as much Miles as you can. Check out the folks he played with (including on here), and listen to more of them, and the folks they played with in turn (Miles' rhythm sections were legendary, and much in demand among other masters). Miles is a touchstone: working from him outwards, you will come across the very best music the last century (and much of the present one) has to offer. Keep listening!
Ah, Miles. This is my favorite song from Miles, and that's John Coltrane on tenor sax, who was another Jazz Giant in the field of Jazz. I love seeing this live version more than the studio version, as you see the band in the background, smoking and chatting, until it's their turn to play. Good Grief, what music, and IT'S LIVE, NO DO-OVERS IN THE STUDIO. You point out that the drummer is steady with the beat, which is his purpose. He's not trying to make it "his song," because he's just the drummer, and a great drummer. FYI: The live performance was played Live on CBS television, 4 months before Miles went into the studio to record the studio version in the album KIND OF BLUE, which is considered the #1 Jazz Album of ALL TIME. Only Gabriel on his Trumpet, outplays Miles. Miles, was the person who brought Modern Jazz into the public mainstream.
As a bassist I always gravitate towards Charles Mingus, the song "Moanin" is a good start. I try and follow one instrument but another will distract my attention.
Charles Mingus is good. I grew up in Denmark wonder if as a bassist you are familiar with my fellow Dane Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen? He often played with Oscar Peterson. Niels Henning and I were about the same age, I knew him from a boarding school I went to, his dad was the head master. At that time Niels Henning was about 15 and he was already playing at a club in Copenhagen.
Jazz is for listenig, to mellow out with. It's smooth and relaxing, not to get hyped up on. I listen to jazz at night to calm down...lights down low, a glass of wine or brandy, eyes closed, electronics off; just clear the mind and listen. Don't play it too loud. Just chill and float away. I have my favorites: Miles ( of course) Wes Montgomery (A Day In The Life) Eddie Harris (Plug Me In) Charles Lloyd (Forest Flower) John Coultrane(A Love Supreme) Chuck Mangione (Feels So Good) Kenny G ( Song bird)
I recall Branford Marsalis referencing So What on The Ballard of Chet Kincaid off of Crazy People Music album in 1990. A great paying homage to the giants.
Wow, that was great. I used to be a total jazz nut, but I somehow wafted away from it, and this was a wonderful return-- like a mini jazz hall of fame, all those musicians together. Great reaction, too...and your remark about your credit score cracked me up. If you get creeped out over Mile's bullfrog cheeks (well, not exactly cheeks, but..), you should check out Dizzy Gillespie-- whose music you might love. I'll try to find some vids with music of his I think you might enjoy, and if I do, I'll come back and recommend some here, in case you're interested, whether as reactions or just to check out on your own. I used to watch Miles fairly often, when he played in a small, famed NYC club called Birdland, back when they had tiny tables, no tablecloths, and for something like a $2 cover charge I could sit so close to him on the little stage, his sweat would hit me when he shook it off. No shows, just sets, and you could sit through as many sets as you wanted...or until you passed out from smoke inhalation from all the cigarettes burning in that closed space. If you are interested in hearing a completely different side of Miles, and one of the most dramatic, rapturously gorgeous pieces of music ever (imho, obv....but others' as well), check out Sketches of SpainL ua-cam.com/video/38zRx9AYDHQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=JazzTimewithJarvisX. It's the whole album but you can just start at the beautiful beginning and, obv., stop whenever you like. You could also react the same way, so it wouldn't have to take away from your reacting-as-work time, if you preferred. I tried to find you a live performance, but the only one I could find was so short it would give you no feel at all for the piece or the achingly gorgeous tone..or the drama at the beginning (and throughout, for that matter). I hope you decide to follow up on your fledgling interest in jazz...maybe even get into the jazz vocal greats-- Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRea, Jon Hendricks/Hendricks, Lambert and Ross, Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day...to name a few. Last-- not sure if you got the impression that the drum holding steady, as you noted, is a regular jazz thing, but if so, you're in for a great surprise, because it's not--there are lots of killer jazz drum sellers that will fill you with awe and smiles! Thanks for the great music, great video, and great reaction.
Miles’ album “Kind Of Blue” was one of the first Jazz albums I owned(which include this song)…. A great, great album. Next stop, I recommend Coltrane’s Blue Train…
The 2 albums that I always recommend for 1st time Jazz listeners are Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and John Coltrane- Blue Train. Those will open up an entirely new world to you.
The album where the came from…. Kind Of Blue… is the best way to get into jazz. It’s fantastic, and it’s so smooth… Just lay back with a sigar and a oks scotch….
You MUST check out Les McCann/Eddie Harris Live at Montreux "Compared to What" and Cold Duck Time" and Herbie Hancock "Headhunters" album. THAT will blow your mind! Keep on keepin on young man! You do a fine job.
Jazz is America's gift to the world. It's one of the first and most beautiful examples of true racial harmony . Every race is represented in the masters.
In jazz up to this point, the drums simply keep the beat and lock in to the bass line. The other instruments take the lead solos and interweave hints of other tunes as they ad-lib. Buddy Rich was the first to really wail on drums. He became so popular that he had his own big band. Rock took the drums and put them equal to the other musicians.
@@rk41gator As a crossover guy, yeah. Other drummers were more influential in jazz, Buddy was influential in playing big band music on the Tonight Show :)
@@airwindows True. But Buddy's name comes up every time a rock drummer mentions influences (including Bonham, if I recall correctly). Not so much for straight jazz drummers in smaller groups. Rich was much too assertive; which is where rock drummers were headed.
I grew up in Denmark, in the early sixties, when I was a teenager, Copenhagen was one of the jazz capitals of Europe. My friends and I would take the bus or train (I lived 30 miles south of Copenhagen) into Copenhagen to go a Club Montmatre, where an American saxophonist played often (he lived in Denmark for many years) Dexter Gordon. I encourage you to check out these jazz musicians, besides Dexter Gordon. Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, The Modern Jazz Quartet. I alwas felt it was a shame that American's didn't apprecitate jazz, sincei it origins was American.
Good choice! I watched the Ken Burns Jazz documentary (one of the best docs out there) and they said that in the 1960s every man about the town had a Miles Davis Record to play in case a lady came over. I don't know if this is true or not, but if they're saying this because Miles Davis is fantastic and people like him.
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I’ve always loved how Miles goes off camera to have a smoke while the rest of the band take their turns. The band includes Miles Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderley on alto sax, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. They are all on the Mt. Everest of the legends of jazz. Your puffer fish comments were funny. You should see Freddie Hubbard play. That man’s cheeks could hide a small car. Thanks for another jazz reaction Polo.
What about Dizzy Gillespie?!
Yeah, those cheeks get bigger over time. It's apparently a medical condition from certain muscles stretching too much or something? Glass blowers get it too.
I never saw my Old English Mastiff blow, but she had similar jowls 😂
The original Dream Team.
Shit, you bring a lineup like that and the other bands just pack up and go home.
@@bg874 yes for sure
This puts me in a trance. Thank you. Miles was a genius
The greatest selling jazz album of all time and an album everyone should have in their collection or have a few songs on their playlist, late at night, when you need to seriously chill and just zone out, no vocals, so tasty and delicious; Coltrane reminds me of modern guitar players, his ability to play arpeggios on a sax is mind blowing, all genius players at the top of their game
The album is "Kind of Blue." And I agree wholeheartedly.
@@JPMadden I think Coltrane’s “Blue Trane” is a comparable pairing with this Miles classic as well, at least, I always end up listening to them together.
Love how Coltrane often gets going with these like little practice runs before he finally hits the ramp at full speed and blasts off to another planet.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW "Blue Train" is one of the many I ripped onto my computer from my father's collection of hundreds of jazz albums. I don't remember the last time I listened to it.
@@JPMadden It’s truly astounding, “Soul Trane” is as well. But, having visited those frequently, I really like to dig into some of the stuff where he really gets lost in it and just blasts off into space.. kind of noisy atonal free form jamming, it makes for a bit of a challenging listen, but both “Impressions” and “Expressions” get really intense.
Someone just getting into jazz should definitely hold off on that stuff, as well as some Ornette Coleman.. but once you can get into those more complex compositions, the payoff is freakin HUGE.
This choice of artist was an excellent and unexpected pleasure. Miles was a truly gifted man. He had many “demons” in life but when he played he became the song and it was beautiful.
Too many of the greats did. Trane escaped his, only to live a tragically short life.
Two of my all-time favorite instrumentalists on stage here: Miles and John Coltrane.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE JAZZ...MILES WAS TO JAZZ WHAT ELVIS WAS TO ROCK N ROLL.....HE WAS ONE OF THE GREATS!!!!!!!
Miles and Coltrane.
Each deserves that deep jazz dive. Classic cool!!
I have owned three of this vinyl since it first came out in 1959. Wore the first two out. Amazing album with some of the best of the era on this album "Kinda Blue" Each song was recorded in just one take.
I love Miles. Man, there are so many extraordinary musicians in the jazz genre.
That’s John Coltrane on sax. You need to check out his music as well. 5:15
Baby steps, man, baby steps. Coltrane is not for beginners.
@@Theomite Giant Steps doesn’t seem too challenging, or maybe Blue Trane.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Definitely _Blue Trane._ Blue Note just did a marvelous remastering of it.
@@Theomite I know, I saw that recently, and really wanna land a copy of the Deluxe Mono version on vinyl.
@@Theomite Sure you can, if you start at coltranes early days too. Ballads for one is the perfect album to check out for some smoothness
I only fell in love with jazz a few years ago and this album is the one that started it.
Kind of blue was one of my first jazz albums and I'm glad you are enjoying jazz
Same here!
I've been listening to Miles for as long as I can remember. He was amazing!
Listen to jazz at work. Helps me stay calm and focused. Found jazz in my 40s…and it absolutely speaks to my soul.
I really like how you're not just listening to these videos to react to them but more to learn about the genre and how to appreciate the music. Very cool my man 🤘🤙
Your honesty is refreshing - thank you
Love Miles!!! I feel like some jazz just needs to be heard. His is a good sit down outside with a cup of coffee or tea, enjoying the outdoors, feeling the music and nature.
A total classic. Miles changed jazz. The entire album is a masterpiece! The great Bill Evans on piano. Quincy Jones played second trumpet with Miles. So many jazz greats were in his band. From Google: “ Kind of Blue brought together seven now-legendary musicians in the prime of their careers: tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Jimmy Cobb and, of course, trumpeter Miles Davis.”
Miles Davis So What was my gateway to jazz. Enjoy the journey!
Wow, this takes me back to a child in the mid 80s and early 90s! Jamming out with my dad! My father was huge into jazz (he could play most instruments, but preferred the Sax) and got me into jazz until the 90s hit! But Miles Davis was my favorite musician (until TOOL) and I played the trumpet in band from 5th to 8th grade because of him! I still listen to his music today and always will, because he was a big part of my childhood and introduction to music!!!
I love the trombone player just puffing on a cigarette between entrances. The good old days lol.
I got into your channel because you were reacting to Tool and such. I also grew up playing Jazz trumpet. Love your taste in videos
My daily listen! One of the greatest jams ever recorded! John Coltrane on sax! 2 🐐
Coltrane / Miles / Chambers is the pinnacle of Jazz. Thank you so much of your branching out to new styles. Love the vide and the reaction
Two weeks in the hospital and they wouldn't let me on the net. Who ever heard of such? Anyway. this was the first video in way too long. But what a selection. Thanks for this one. Miles stood alone among the greats.
I'm not hugely into jazz. But when it's good like this it's really good.
You probably need to listen to some jazz vocalist because that's what you are probably used to, people singing. Even though I'm saying this I will leave you with another Miles Davis tune called If I Were a Bell. It is such an easy tune to fall in love with. I believe you will listen to over and over again. If you do take a listen would you please leave a comment of if you like it or not. ua-cam.com/video/36wafFjFdYs/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ProfessorOak
WOW !!! OMG!! THE VERY BEST!!!!!
There is a reason that Kind of Blue is still the highest selling jazz album of all time. It marked the switch from the be-bop style of playing into modal jazz.
One of my all time favorite jazz songs ❤️ also please consider reacting to “compared to what” Eddie Harris & Les McCann. 🔥 🔥
Dude! This song is so LEGIT!!!! Marcus Miller (a bassist who played with Miles at one point) does a FIRE version of this. Miles Davis is phenomenal!!! MIles' second Quintet had an all-star line up: Miles, Ron Carter on Bass, Tony Williams on drums, Wayne Shorter on Sax, and Herbie Hancock on Piano. Ron holds the world record for most recorded bassist in Jazz history with over 2,200 credits. He plays on everything!!!!
I've got a curve ball to throw you. Most folk only know "Take Five" as an instrumental by Dave Brubeck, with Paul Desmond on Alto sax.
Here's a vocal version that came out years later by the amazing Al Jurreau. I really hope you enjoy this for another reaction. Much live from NOLA!
ua-cam.com/video/39xsZu_IRrM/v-deo.html
Some of us know, my friend. Incredible talent.
Exactly. That version by Jarreau will blow your mind. I think that is the type of song that people who doesn't listen to jazz should start with, because it will keep their attention and let their ears get used to hearing jazz.
Miles Davis is his own genre 🎶👏
Miles had the smoothest sound of any trumpet player in existence. There’s a tonne of REALLY good trumpet players around but no one sounded as cool as miles did.
My mum used to listen to a lot of jazz when I was growing up so I’ve heard of Miles Davis and John Coltrane and So what is a classic also blue in green is another famous tune by him
Miles Davis - live Isle of Wight festival 1970, Right off (Tribute to jack johnson album 1971)
John Coltrane - My favourite things, Greensleeves.
Not everyone's cuppa tea I can understand that. But 'Kind of Blue' album is an absolute classic. If you never heard of Miles Davis in the Netherlands we have a saying, freely translated "That is a lack or poor upbringing". Whether you like it or not, you listen to Miles/Jazz and that way you recognize, memorize, you never forget who the great musician Miles Davis was. A legend.
I do love tool but I also love Miles Davis That's a beautiful thing about music. Check out Herbie Hancock headhunters very good record
My dad was a professional jazz musician. This is the stuff I grew up listening to. Thanks
Such chill music. I own quite a bit of his music on cd. Love it. Thanks for the reaction!
My favorite jazz album is Kind of Blue from 1959. I recommend Blue in Green and Flamenko Sketches (studio version). Music straight to the soul.
Finally subbed today, after watching and enjoying your reactions to innumerable tunes across many genres.
You’re one of the best I’ve found on the net. Keep on doing what you’re doing. Upper 5% tier.
Miles' bands were a revolving door of great musicians. This band represents Miles' jazz peak in late 1950s. A decade later, Miles, with a different but also great band, would shape a new genre called fusion where he brought elements of rock into a jazz sound.
Everybody who has ever played with Miles Davis will amaze with a deep dive.
The embodiment of cool. One of the greats. Love seeing you discover music I love .
Miles created or helped create many sub genres of jazz. He was always looking forward.
One of my favs by Miles
The horn harmony and riff was adopted by James Brown according to QuestLove.
So now that you’re easing into Jazz … Charle Parker has you’re next jam 😊
IMHO Tool is the Charle Parker of modern music progression … and yeah it’s time to think about being high and then just magikly being high … that’s what Charle Parker is … and Miles and Dizzy made it so …. jazz man 🐉 chase it😼
Love that you’re getting into jazz. It brings back memories with my late husband having Sunday champagne jazz brunch on the Cumberland river on 2nd Avenue in Nashville every weekend. Another jazzy tune to check out are songs Stevie Ray Vaughan wrote called Riviera Paradise and Lenny. Please make a SRV Playlist.
Two of my all time favorite albums are by Miles, Kinda Blue (this song) and Bitche’s Brew. Man, I love bebop and sub genres of Jazz. Cannonball Adderly, Coltrane, Turrentine, Ornett Coleman, Stan Kenton Quartet, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, etc., as well as classic rock and blues. Thanks for the jazz. 👍
I absolutely love this!
The very essence of black American music . Miles and Coltrane
3:33 and there he is. Coltrane was like a Van Halen or any of the great guitar rockers decades later
Massive respect for giving Miles a listen. And this isn't the easiest of intros to his work. Please persist - its worth it.
Miles has super fast, Bebop era stuff, with Coltrane, that is pure fun (good next stop). But also does almost classical pieces like Sketches of Spain, to super cool jazz like In a Silent Way, to experimental/psychedelic stuff on Bitches Brew.
Coltrane stands out as well as Miles brother as does Wynton Kelly! Miles’s band was a band of legends from mid 50s onwards!
I have been listening to a lot of jazz lately.
It is definitely a wonderful genre to get into.
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Still amongst the absolute greats of jazz and western music in the 20th century.
This is the kind of jazz I find easiest to listen to if your ear is more trained for listening to rock and roll and simpler forms of music. I think it's called modal jazz, and it doesn't have nearly as complex melodies and chord changes as styles like bebop, so I think it's more comprehensible to people new to the genre. I don't really go much further than this modal stuff in jazz - it takes so much listening to learn to hear it properly.
It's only just recently that I've actually picked up on what Miles is doing with his solos. I've always loved his music, but never really worked out what was great about his trumpet playing. It's really hit me more recently.
Check out the French movie Elevator to the Gallows....most movies have a classical writer, arranger, for the sound track. In this movie Miles stands and watches the movie track and improvises the sound track.....incredible
I paused one minute in and typed out a full response, touching on my own lack of love for jazz, then how my Dad saw Miles Davis in concert 6 times before I was born and how every performance was unique and inspiring, and my own sentimental connection to my Dad being a wicked stand-up bass and boogie woogie piano player, and how we finally connected musically over those live performances...then I clicked play and realized, wait no, that's a horn guy. I was thinking of Dave Brubeck. Never mind.
Comment for the algorithm! And also to fangirl about jazz. I hope you open up to loving jazz. There's so many genres just within jazz itself, there's something for everyone.
Swoon ! Thank you. So very, very good.
For a little historical context, Miles Davis changed jazz (not for the first or last time!) with this track and album (Kind of Blue). Before then most jazz was based around soloing over complicated chord changes. With this album, and So What especially, Davis pared back all the chord changes (So What only has two chords) so that players could solo over a single mode--the Dorian mode in this case. This basically gave players much more freedom for melodic improvisation as they weren't limited by having to follow the chord changes. The entire album has this laid-back, meditative, flowy vibe to it that's just magical.
It's also worth noting that Davis would radically change how they played this piece over the years. It kept getting faster and faster, and by the time of his live albums of the mid-to-late 60s he'd take it at a blistering, punishing pace. One awesome thing about jazz is how malleable tracks are when played live.
This one is a fun one to play.
Don’t u know Miles Davies was the Birth of Cool!!!
There are like 5 of the best jazz tunes of all time on Kind of Blue. Flamenco Sketches being the most beautiful song I've ever had the privilege of listing to.
Miles was a genius of music😎😎😎😎
I love Miles music
Time to dive into more jazz. Miles is a great start. This is a laid back minimalist groove. His 'Bitches Brew' is more rock oriented.
Actually, I think _Bitches Brew_ is more cocaine oriented. I think it was Joe Zawinul who said he never knew when they were recording it was so chaotic and loose.
No sleeping with M.O.
In my mind this is one of the pinnacles of music humanity has ever produced. There are more but this belongs in the pantheon of art.
Miles is awesome and always played with the best. Coltrane, Cobham, McLaughlin, etc.
The main thing is that you've got both ears now planted right in the beating heart of American classical music, which is to say Black American music. My only advice is: keep listening! Listen to as much Miles as you can. Check out the folks he played with (including on here), and listen to more of them, and the folks they played with in turn (Miles' rhythm sections were legendary, and much in demand among other masters). Miles is a touchstone: working from him outwards, you will come across the very best music the last century (and much of the present one) has to offer. Keep listening!
jazz is the supreme of all music 🎶
Wow! Back to basics 😂❤
That is John Coltrane on sax to Miles' immediate right.
Ah, Miles. This is my favorite song from Miles, and that's John Coltrane on tenor sax, who was another Jazz Giant in the field of Jazz. I love seeing this live version more than the studio version, as you see the band in the background, smoking and chatting, until it's their turn to play. Good Grief, what music, and IT'S LIVE, NO DO-OVERS IN THE STUDIO.
You point out that the drummer is steady with the beat, which is his purpose. He's not trying to make it "his song," because he's just the drummer, and a great drummer.
FYI: The live performance was played Live on CBS television, 4 months before Miles went into the studio to record the studio version in the album KIND OF BLUE, which is considered the #1 Jazz Album of ALL TIME. Only Gabriel on his Trumpet, outplays Miles.
Miles, was the person who brought Modern Jazz into the public mainstream.
As a bassist I always gravitate towards Charles Mingus, the song "Moanin" is a good start. I try and follow one instrument but another will distract my attention.
Mingus is amazing!
Charles Mingus is good. I grew up in Denmark wonder if as a bassist you are familiar with my fellow Dane Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen? He often played with Oscar Peterson. Niels Henning and I were about the same age, I knew him from a boarding school I went to, his dad was the head master. At that time Niels Henning was about 15 and he was already playing at a club in Copenhagen.
Jazz is for listenig, to mellow out with. It's smooth and relaxing, not to get hyped up on.
I listen to jazz at night to calm down...lights down low, a glass of wine or brandy, eyes closed, electronics off; just clear the mind and listen. Don't play it too loud. Just chill and float away.
I have my favorites: Miles ( of course)
Wes Montgomery (A Day In The Life)
Eddie Harris (Plug Me In)
Charles Lloyd (Forest Flower)
John Coultrane(A Love Supreme)
Chuck Mangione (Feels So Good)
Kenny G ( Song bird)
I recall Branford Marsalis referencing So What on The Ballard of Chet Kincaid off of Crazy People Music album in 1990. A great paying homage to the giants.
Wow, that was great. I used to be a total jazz nut, but I somehow wafted away from it, and this was a wonderful return-- like a mini jazz hall of fame, all those musicians together. Great reaction, too...and your remark about your credit score cracked me up.
If you get creeped out over Mile's bullfrog cheeks (well, not exactly cheeks, but..), you should check out Dizzy Gillespie-- whose music you might love. I'll try to find some vids with music of his I think you might enjoy, and if I do, I'll come back and recommend some here, in case you're interested, whether as reactions or just to check out on your own.
I used to watch Miles fairly often, when he played in a small, famed NYC club called Birdland, back when they had tiny tables, no tablecloths, and for something like a $2 cover charge I could sit so close to him on the little stage, his sweat would hit me when he shook it off. No shows, just sets, and you could sit through as many sets as you wanted...or until you passed out from smoke inhalation from all the cigarettes burning in that closed space.
If you are interested in hearing a completely different side of Miles, and one of the most dramatic, rapturously gorgeous pieces of music ever (imho, obv....but others' as well), check out Sketches of SpainL ua-cam.com/video/38zRx9AYDHQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=JazzTimewithJarvisX.
It's the whole album but you can just start at the beautiful beginning and, obv., stop whenever you like. You could also react the same way, so it wouldn't have to take away from your reacting-as-work time, if you preferred.
I tried to find you a live performance, but the only one I could find was so short it would give you no feel at all for the piece or the achingly gorgeous tone..or the drama at the beginning (and throughout, for that matter).
I hope you decide to follow up on your fledgling interest in jazz...maybe even get into the jazz vocal greats-- Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRea, Jon Hendricks/Hendricks, Lambert and Ross, Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day...to name a few.
Last-- not sure if you got the impression that the drum holding steady, as you noted, is a regular jazz thing, but if so, you're in for a great surprise, because it's not--there are lots of killer jazz drum sellers that will fill you with awe and smiles!
Thanks for the great music, great video, and great reaction.
If this your, first time enjoy the music, then listen for more of this jazz great.
Oh Polo, you should check out his “Sketches of Spain” 💙 Love me some Miles…….
you are in for a treat!
Miles’ album “Kind Of Blue” was one of the first Jazz albums I owned(which include this song)…. A great, great album. Next stop, I recommend Coltrane’s Blue Train…
Great to see you exploring jazz.
Suggestion, for a great vocal: Lush Life by Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane.
So few reactors do jazz... thank you so much
Freddie Hubbard and Oscar Peterson. All Blues, Tippin, Portrait of Jenny. Anything on the Face to Face album really. It's perfect.
Hey man! Great reaction... check out "tutu - that's what happened", I love Miles later bands
The 2 albums that I always recommend for 1st time Jazz listeners are Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and John Coltrane- Blue Train. Those will open up an entirely new world to you.
This is great. Have you ever heard the classic, "Take Five' - Dave Brubeck? There is a drum solo for you!
The album where the came from…. Kind Of Blue… is the best way to get into jazz.
It’s fantastic, and it’s so smooth…
Just lay back with a sigar and a oks scotch….
some recordings are better than others, but Miles is always smooth, his long sense of rhythm and pattern is amazing,
You MUST check out Les McCann/Eddie Harris Live at Montreux "Compared to What" and Cold Duck Time" and Herbie Hancock "Headhunters" album. THAT will blow your mind! Keep on keepin on young man! You do a fine job.
The man was brilliant
Man Coltrane killed this one
Jazz is America's gift to the world. It's one of the first and most beautiful examples of true racial harmony . Every race is represented in the masters.
Coolest album ever
You got miles and miles to go it seems
In jazz up to this point, the drums simply keep the beat and lock in to the bass line. The other instruments take the lead solos and interweave hints of other tunes as they ad-lib. Buddy Rich was the first to really wail on drums. He became so popular that he had his own big band. Rock took the drums and put them equal to the other musicians.
Is buddy rich playing on this song?
@@jesslivinlife No. He is about as far away from 'cool jazz' and Miles as you could get. LOL (but he was very influential)
@@rk41gator As a crossover guy, yeah. Other drummers were more influential in jazz, Buddy was influential in playing big band music on the Tonight Show :)
@@airwindows True. But Buddy's name comes up every time a rock drummer mentions influences (including Bonham, if I recall correctly). Not so much for straight jazz drummers in smaller groups. Rich was much too assertive; which is where rock drummers were headed.
what the hell are you talking about 🤦
I grew up in Denmark, in the early sixties, when I was a teenager, Copenhagen was one of the jazz capitals of Europe. My friends and I would take the bus or train (I lived 30 miles south of Copenhagen) into Copenhagen to go a Club Montmatre, where an American saxophonist played often (he lived in Denmark for many years) Dexter Gordon. I encourage you to check out these jazz musicians, besides Dexter Gordon. Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, The Modern Jazz Quartet. I alwas felt it was a shame that American's didn't apprecitate jazz, sincei it origins was American.
I used to put my son to sleep with this from the time he was only a few months old.
I think it is good to put a kid to sleep with some really good music. Maybe they have a knack for it but you won't know until you present it to them.
Good choice! I watched the Ken Burns Jazz documentary (one of the best docs out there) and they said that in the 1960s every man about the town had a Miles Davis Record to play in case a lady came over. I don't know if this is true or not, but if they're saying this because Miles Davis is fantastic and people like him.