Thank God someone filmed this, recorded this, and that we can go online and watch it in 2018 from anywhere in the world. We're so lucky, I pray the next generations experience even greater gifts that these.
What a great way of putting it. From my own experience, people I talk to don’t understand or have any desires to understand Jazz music of any genre it’s like in the modern world it’s received bad press from many ignorant journalists. Hopefully the tide will turn. I am a presenter on a local radio station and will always slip the odd gem in when I get the chance. People need educating. This music is unique and it’s great how the solos are different each time but the tune is recognisable. That’s what’s great with Jazz. You has Jazz!!
Miles Davis, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums; Gil Evans Orchestra, background riffs. 2 Apr 1959, Studio 61.
Miles never overplayed. Miles never felt the need to prove himself to anyone by playing fast, though obviously he could. He just laid back in the pocket and said what he wanted to say. Clearly, concisely and without pretense. For me this is what a true Master does. He gets his point across so that anyone can understand...
True. Even though he played with a laid back pace, his Solo is on point. Some people need to play fast to show off, but Miles need not. It's like he was conversing straight "to the point". No need for fancy words or something. Straight class.
@@yosuapangaribuan5057 yeah. Thats kinda the meaning of the song. From what I understand he saw all the super fast intricate melodies of the Jazz hits at the time and decided to write a song with a 4 note melody, and sound completely badass anyway. You can see it in the music where the bass plays a complicated rhythm and then the melody responds with two notes that mimic a person saying “so what” as if it is calling into question the purpose of the complicatedness of the bass line, symbolic for Jazz at the time. Alright, geek out over, move along.
I'm a 12 year old drummer and asked my teacher to teach me jazz and this is the first jazz song I learned. So glad I asked him. This song is just amazing and I can listen to it for hours.
I fell in love with jazz as a five year old boy at a time when jazz was waning in.popularity back in 1969. The first jazz album I remember listening too was Wes Montgomery's A Day in the Life.
In my car because I can't sleep. It's 3:15am and while I sit in suburban Philadelphia, I watch this video. I've heard this number at least 10,000 times in my life, but it's nothing sweeter than this video footage right here. Phenomenal capture and so happy, u can come here anytime to watch. Thank you.
I'm sitting by the back bay of Biloxi and just play this for my dad. He passed four years ago today. So I'm sending this out to my dad. He loved jazz so much. I him so much .
Man, Coltrane's solo here is just amazing, he plays so fast but at the same time is so coherent and emotional, the timing is right, and the tone is fucking sweet. It contrasts with Miles' part well too.
The magnificent Miles Davis and the spectacular John Coltrane, ladies and gentlemen! It doesn't get any better! Two icons!! Incredible! R.I.P. to both!
@@ranakeen9884 Maybe because they played together for years at this point and in Miles’s mind Coltrane was not a deity as jazz fans today see him. Back then he was just a great tenor sax player who was Miles’s sideman before going on to be a significant band leader himself!
@@jibsmokestack1 yeah. You're right. I imagine the conversation was: "man! That cat can blow!" And miles says something like "yeah and that's why I am here."
Coltrane's solo is so intense, it contrasts well against such a simple melody that seems to have just 2 musical notes. I liked Miles's musical ideas during this period.
The older jazz gets and the more it enters history, the more clear it is what an essential bridge this music is between the past and what we think of as "modernity." Not only modern music, but modern culture, what began to arise in the middle of the 20th century and is on overdrive today. Seminal stuff here.
The average person doesn’t realise how influential the modal framework has been on all of music. Lots of musicians nowadays don’t even know they’re using it
@@valentinarmenta4982 This is one of the songs responsible for making a sub-genre of Jazz called Modal Jazz really popular. Modal Jazz ofc gave importance to musical modes and the chords that were derived from them. Almost all songs today use modes and this song in a way is to be credited for it.
@@shravanranjeeth2135 Bebop had been a lot busier, with everyone playing lots of notes. By comparison, these modal songs had much more space between chordal changes, and gave the soloist more room to pick and choose notes more sparsely, within a context of mood and emotional depth.
There’s always someone in the crowd of commenters who has to turn a great performance into their opportunity for a personal rant. Go yell at the clouds you fool.
My older brother was named after miles Davis.. my dad played drums for nearly 70 years.... great jazz drummer taking me to many gigs x we lost our dad in April.. just two weeks ago me and my brother heard this playing in the hilton where we were staying .. my brother miles said " it's dad Joe he giving us a sign " my dad's favourite track of all time xx
Be prepared to hear this song a good few times then. Trust me, he'll probably want you to hear this until the day you die! Not that I'd mind, since it's such a good tune. And sorry for your loss
I’m 30 years old, born in ‘92. I try to tell my students at the high school I work at, that THIS IS MUSIC. Nothing like some Miles Davis n Coltrane to start my day with some coffee the smell of morning dew. 🤧🤧 That.. is LIFE.
When I was a Black little girl back in the 60's and mama would have music like this blasting on her newly aquired RCA Sterio record player it would hurt my ears and boggle my mind that she would play this crazy waaay-out shit that seemed so out of step with the times- why couldn't she groove to Smokey Robinson or Aretha Franklin or James Brown like everyone else i knew?!! And then she'd rub it in by smiling a huge smile on her face while snapping her fingers to this crazy music...I remember looking up into mama’s 22yrs young face and with a puzzled look on my 8yrs face exclaiming, "You're serious huh? You really like this stuff huh (hoping she'd realize she had momentarily lost her mind again) smile and continue her gyrations in complete confidence while saying, "Yeah, I love it!" I felt personally insulted. I learned later in life while studying music in on of music classes at the University of Southern California that music mama listen to was as classy and jazzy as it gets and that Miles Dewey Davis was THE #1 JAZZ ARTIST OF ALL TIME. I been lovin this shit in a mad crazy way and threw in some Art Blakey, and Wes Montgomery to boot ~_~♡
One of my earliest memories in life - waking up in a Sunday morning and Miles playing loud on my father's stereo in the living room... Love from Athens, Greece!
I queued for return tickets in London in 1985 and the queue was more than worth it. I got to see Miles Davis live from a box seat. Unforgotten to this day and deep in my heart.
No doubt he had his own "plan" and followed through with it. My original observation and comment wasn't meant to suggest otherwise. Trane was listening to Miles and the video captures a moment of respect. A moment in time where you realize you have to follow greatness and he responds with greatness.
Never. This is probably one of the most important and significant works of the 20th century. It's revolutionary today, almost seventy years later. Masterpiece
@@abdullahbhinder9023 This is NOT the session for the LP, it is from a live TV broadcast by most of the same musicians. The pianist is NOT Bill Evans, who played on the original session. But both versions of this band DID, indeed, change music, and was one of the great bands in jazz history, and Miles and Bill Evans were its two most important members.
An all time TV classic. Jazz on TV, in the 1950s. A legendary group. I had the great honor of meeting drummer Jimmy Cobb, seen here. I saw him play, and I met him. I have a picture with him. He was part of the famous Miles Davis band, from the jazz essential, Kind of Blue album. 1959.
...it never gets old. Miles Davis delivers about the most perfect solo there is to start this gem of a performance. And then John Coltrane takes flight, masterful. This piece of film is a national treasure, or should be. The greatest art form this country ever produced, with two of it's greatest practitioners in top form.
Miles died at the age of 65 from respiratory failure, so I would say more the definition of bad lungs than badass. Miles was a badass, but his smoking sure as hell wasn't the reason.
I listen to all sorts of music. Mostly some hard stuff like metal and rock. But Jazz was always my go to along with Classical when I wanted to chill and just think deeply. Jazz is incredible.
No BS, no trying to play better than the other guy, no trying to show how great you are ... just taking your turn to say what what you have to say within the context of the theme, simple, clear, unadorned, beautiful and clear ... amazing, genius ... I remember growing up in LA, listening to a jazz radio station called KBCA listing to cats like Miles, Jimmy Smith, Dexter Gorden, Gabor Szabo, Wes Montgomery, Coltrane ... hearing their genius play through the quiet stilness of my bedroom at night ...lucky me!
Mario Pookster the legends you have listed, give me goosebumps listening to them, a lost era of real musicians I wish we still had. When people where human and gave us gifts on a simple day where we enjoyed meaningful acts, Cooking, having a drink, a cigar, talking about what drives us to signify the simple things we wish others could relate to that brings us together. I love jazz so much I believe jazz is life.
Most say it has all deteriorated due to overpopulation, and I can see that is a major factor, but of course, greed and lust for power was always lurking there in any time of ease and prosperity. When the pressure and heat are up like present times, the dross rises to the surface, then the status quo is asserted more vigorously by the stratas of elites, and the common folk are driven into corners by economics, and socially all the simple enjoyments often get buried in the wake of meaningless destruction that follows useless pupose. Get my drift Jason Smith? Just a lot more difficult, and sometimes impossible to relax and think, and enjoy simple things I guess.
Sorry, I forgot to say that you are right! JAZZ IS LIFE. a philosophy of creative co operation brother, so I am swinging with the time and rhythm like you, and we share the love that these inspiring souls still play for us. We bop, and jive, and swing, and lay back to enjoy what COOL really means.
The first time I heard this and the Kind of Blue album I literally cried. It hit me hard. I can't even describe the sounds I heard. I had never felt this way about any music.
The puffy faces are legendary. The mastery of the moment, the instrument, and the music. Flawless. Nobody better than Miles......and he knew it. All time Diva. If you weren't paying attention and he saw you he might get up and leave.
@dylan foley young people get jazz more than old people get hip hop. I think most old folks just ignorant of the art form, and/or they think hip hop is all about snoop dog and rapping about bitches any guns. But that'll be gangster rap. When you're done studying Tony Williams, you can progress to J Dilla. PS. I love the old jazz music, it's much more inspired than jazz today.
Jamal Yusuf Ali Bey .. A masterpiece combo indeed. This particular performance features Miles, Coltrane, and Adderly, with Wynton Kelly on piano (instead of Bill Evans), Paul Chambers ("Mr. P.C.") on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums.
Wynton Kelly on keys shows great restraint by not trying to pick up on Coltrane's intensity but rather brings a smooth and easy break between Coltrane and Miles. It gives the listener a bit of a breather with simple but pleasing phrasing that's like a palette cleanser after the rush of Coltrane's intensity so that the listener doesn't get exhausted trying to keep up with the cascades of notes from 'Trane and Miles. Really artful display of less is more by Kelly.
So was Trane, Wynton and Paul Cambers. Cobb wasn’t a genius but a great drummer just below that level. The drummer he replaced in the band Philly Joe Jones and the drummer who succeeded him Tony Williams were both geniuses. Plenty of geniuses in jazz at that time across multiple groups!
@@ad240p so dude used a formal name and tjen said fuck it and used the informal for the second in statement? While that may be accurate I think at this particular junction dude just fudged it.
How courageous these men were. Miles didn't let the prejudice of the time keep him from sharing his gift and living his purpose. One of the things that strikes me as I watch this is how many different people came together to enjoy this this..music truly transcends all.
Because he's an individual, he had his influences but worked incredibly hard on his own style, ideas, concepts. They say no one practiced more than him. Add that to his natural ability, humility and you get a great musician and man
Dear Miles, I want to thank you deeply for the music you gave to the world and that day after day accompanied my existence. Thanks to you, my life had a background that made it more bearable, more alive and sometimes more magical. You were and always will be a giant of jazz, an innovator. Your creativity, your sound make you a legend. For all this, thank you from the bottom of my heart Miles
When your mastery over an instrument is like Coletrane's, your direct thoughts just come straight out the end of the Sax. There's nothing stopping the flow.
I've watched this a million times and never noticed Mile's 'smile' after Coltrane hit those arpeggios. I was too busy checking the trombonist response. Now, you just gave me another reason to watch a few more thousand times:)
When you listen to Miles, and you feel like you know and understand him. The feel is just crazy, you start crafting better in your own field. By him being himself he allows you to be your best self too.
So few minimalists today that let the music speak for itself. No lights, costumes, bombs, trapeze stuff just a few guys defining time in their own creative way replete with volume dynamics, manipulation of tempo and tone; its a woven tapestry for all to listen and study. This tune always makes me think.
I just got to meet and actually work with Cobb at a jazz camp at the Hartt school. the dude is 88 and absolutely killing it, and had the coolest stories I've ever heard. I'm still in disbelief I met him
Wow! Just another night on the stage. Making sweet music effortlessly. True talent at its best! Even taking a break with smokes! Would have loved to be in the presence of greatness.
i LOVE the part just before the 8 minute mark where Chambers brings the main "So What?" theme back in ... i get chills every time. Amazing performance you could never get tired of ...
What a special moment in time and place..., I wonder if each of these wonderfully talented musicians realized at that moment how special and everlasting this recording was and would be...? And here it is today for the world to hear and see... Only at that time a few would hear and very few would see them play... So much more special at that time... today the world hears and sees them play... Forever, playing for all to receive, Blessings upon each who receive...
For me that song is "Changeling" by DJ Shadow but I can easily see it here too. When I first heard this song at 15 my immediate thought was "the coolest cafe in town". haha
I saw Miles Davis in Washington D.C. in 1976 when I was 15. I took my stepbrother, a virtuoso classical pianist, to hear him. Miles played with his back to the audience
Considering Miles just got out of heroin abuse a few years prior and immediately got a contract at Columbia Records, releasing this masterpiece is just another testament to what an amazing artist Miles truly was. An inspiration for generations.
I've warched dozens of drummers over the years-on video and in person-and there is none that I enjoy watching than Buhaina himself,the incredible Art Blakey. 🎉
![Miles Davis- October 13, 1960 Konserthuset, Stockholm [2nd concert]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7BHfg77AcBs/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank God someone filmed this, recorded this, and that we can go online and watch it in 2018 from anywhere in the world. We're so lucky, I pray the next generations experience even greater gifts that these.
Well put !
This is the Final and Last Generation!
After listening to the album We Like it here by Snarky Puppy, i can assure you that our generation is taking good care of jazz 💯
What a great way of putting it. From my own experience, people I talk to don’t understand or have any desires to understand Jazz music of any genre it’s like in the modern world it’s received bad press from many ignorant journalists. Hopefully the tide will turn. I am a presenter on a local radio station and will always slip the odd gem in when I get the chance. People need educating. This music is unique and it’s great how the solos are different each time but the tune is recognisable. That’s what’s great with Jazz.
You has Jazz!!
Amen
isn't this just one of the coolest videos of all time, what happened to this level of cool
Omg I found you, and yes This is so cool
Glyphosate and atrazine
It's ain't dat cool... So what
@@bubu345 It is so cool it is only cool for cool people, normal people cant even grasp what is cool about the best things in life lol
@@bubu345you ain't cool
Miles Davis, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums; Gil Evans Orchestra, background riffs. 2 Apr 1959, Studio 61.
djandersonny thank you so much
Cannonbal arddley sax na versão original do disco e bill Evans que era branco no piano na gravação original de kind of blue
Bill Evans piano
The album King of Blue cannonball ardley sax and bill Evans piano
Roadhouse.
2023 and still one of the best jazz recordings ever produced
My guy 👌👌
Amen
Without a doubt...GENIUS!
truth
Along with Dave Brubeck 😉🇬🇧
Miles never overplayed. Miles never felt the need to prove himself to anyone by playing fast, though obviously he could. He just laid back in the pocket and said what he wanted to say. Clearly, concisely and without pretense. For me this is what a true Master does. He gets his point across so that anyone can understand...
True. Even though he played with a laid back pace, his Solo is on point. Some people need to play fast to show off, but Miles need not. It's like he was conversing straight "to the point". No need for fancy words or something. Straight class.
💯💯
@@yosuapangaribuan5057 yeah. Thats kinda the meaning of the song. From what I understand he saw all the super fast intricate melodies of the Jazz hits at the time and decided to write a song with a 4 note melody, and sound completely badass anyway.
You can see it in the music where the bass plays a complicated rhythm and then the melody responds with two notes that mimic a person saying “so what” as if it is calling into question the purpose of the complicatedness of the bass line, symbolic for Jazz at the time.
Alright, geek out over, move along.
well said
...check out his bebop stuff before he went cool or modal. Miles did 'overplay'.
I'm a 12 year old drummer and asked my teacher to teach me jazz and this is the first jazz song I learned. So glad I asked him. This song is just amazing and I can listen to it for hours.
I fell in love with jazz as a five year old boy at a time when jazz was waning in.popularity back in 1969. The first jazz album I remember listening too was Wes Montgomery's A Day in the Life.
Ol Dee I don’t even know what I’m doing here, I’m a progressive metal guitarist. But this music is pretty frickin awesome
@@danielc9606 prog metal and jazz sometimes going hand by hand. Just mention Alarum and Atheist.
:)
i like how everyone here is just ignoring the hater that probably has two accounts to like his own comments
"I don't often take smoke breaks, but when I do them, I do them in the middle of the coolest song ever."--Miles
+Cabz HAHA! You just won UA-cam!
+Cabz Cool, what can you say?
+Cabz Sereiously!! IM tweeting this lol
+John Smithwick
Coltrane: "When I start playing I don't know how to stop."
Miles: "I'll tell you how to stop. Take the horn out 'cha mouth."
+John Smithwick lol yea because Coltrane never stops playing
In my car because I can't sleep. It's 3:15am and while I sit in suburban Philadelphia, I watch this video. I've heard this number at least 10,000 times in my life, but it's nothing sweeter than this video footage right here. Phenomenal capture and so happy, u can come here anytime to watch. Thank you.
I'm listening at 9 in the morning,and while it's still great,I have to agree it's much better late at night when everyone is asleep. 😴
Miles 6 that space in a melody is strong as complexity.
I'm sitting by the back bay of Biloxi and just play this for my dad. He passed four years ago today. So I'm sending this out to my dad. He loved jazz so much. I him so much .
Fucking perfect music for those times you're riding solo in the small hours ...
it’s 3:20 am for me in suburban DC. can’t sleep either.
Thank GOD this piece of musical history was filmed .
Amen
God didn't invent music lol
Was the devil according to religion
@@juliandarch9278then why is music played in churches☠️
@@leakdeo That is a question to ask the churches man. Not that it matters cuz the bible is a crock anyhow.
Man, Coltrane's solo here is just amazing, he plays so fast but at the same time is so coherent and emotional, the timing is right, and the tone is fucking sweet. It contrasts with Miles' part well too.
The gospel of John
Emotional?
@@kevinstewart3029 ❤❤
@@shavodhall1169 yes, he means it is charged with emotion... it makes you feel a lot of emotions
Eu tava procurando esse comentário, alguém falando do Coltrane
I was looking for this comment, someone talking about Coltrane
Thank you very much
Saw Miles at The Village Gate NYC in 1968.
Richard Pryor was the opening act.
$3.50 cover.
One drink minimum.
Being old has it's advantages
Z.
Zax Buzz How cool!
That’s amazing
Well put!
Never old. A very special witness :)
how long was Miles’ set ?
The magnificent Miles Davis and the spectacular John Coltrane, ladies and gentlemen! It doesn't get any better! Two icons!! Incredible! R.I.P. to both!
If you know what I know everyone on that album is an ICON
If you know what I know everyone on that album is an ICON
The way Coltrane emerged gives me chills every time I listen to this PERFECT song!! Timeless
Yasssss! 🎷❤
That tone unmistakable... the gospel of John
Trance was all over this his solo was transcendent some real Holy Ghost sheet! 🤘🏾😆😃
Heavenly
amazing description of it. I got chills too
This is golden, everyone is awesome, but John Coltrane, in his short solo, is amazing. So precise.
Thanks for watching
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I can not believe how miles and some others were talking whilst John was playing!
@@ranakeen9884 Maybe because they played together for years at this point and in Miles’s mind Coltrane was not a deity as jazz fans today see him. Back then he was just a great tenor sax player who was Miles’s sideman before going on to be a significant band leader himself!
@@jibsmokestack1 yeah. You're right. I imagine the conversation was: "man! That cat can blow!" And miles says something like "yeah and that's why I am here."
So precise, so expressive. Coltrane really shined here. Couldn’t agree more
Coltrane's solo is so intense, it contrasts well against such a simple melody that seems to have just 2 musical notes. I liked Miles's musical ideas during this period.
Check out what he plays on Dark Magus. Like the tune What I Say.
Right? And right from the very first note when he enters and then he continues right this was so amazing as well
Holy cow that's Coltrane.
Even before he starts playing, it's like the voice of his God is speaking to him . . .so much an instrument of pure jazz.
Don't forget the bass is part of the melody
"Don't worry about playing a lot of notes; just find one beautiful one." Miles Davis
The older jazz gets and the more it enters history, the more clear it is what an essential bridge this music is between the past and what we think of as "modernity." Not only modern music, but modern culture, what began to arise in the middle of the 20th century and is on overdrive today. Seminal stuff here.
speak on it
The average person doesn’t realise how influential the modal framework has been on all of music. Lots of musicians nowadays don’t even know they’re using it
Can you explain how this is a bridge?
@@valentinarmenta4982 This is one of the songs responsible for making a sub-genre of Jazz called Modal Jazz really popular. Modal Jazz ofc gave importance to musical modes and the chords that were derived from them. Almost all songs today use modes and this song in a way is to be credited for it.
@@shravanranjeeth2135 Bebop had been a lot busier, with everyone playing lots of notes. By comparison, these modal songs had much more space between chordal changes, and gave the soloist more room to pick and choose notes more sparsely, within a context of mood and emotional depth.
As a kid in the 90s I first heard this and thought this is what adulthood sounded like
great comment!!!!:):):)
Yes!
You and I both!
Born in 73' I'm just getting to the adult stage.......... I guess?
I'm totally impressed with that statement. Dude, you got it. You really got it.
This is what cool looks and sounds like, each musician giving 'space' to each other's creativity. The epitome of true cool. Eternal.
Yes 🙌🏽
Reminds me of the movie collateral. "Cool"
The best definition of cool...,
Can a movie ever be this cool? Has there a movie been this cool?
Amén!
So what? It's simply brilliant jazz!
Your not kidding ! They talk about classic rock, but this is classic jazz!
🙂🤫😌💙
At the age of 76 I now realize why these guys are immortal. They are actually honest to God musicians.
BOB ..ABSOLUTELY AGREE!!
@@alessandrogrisoni4918 So true on that.........
What a great comment... this craft requires commitment/ discipline/ and love
Absolutely! This music really brings people up, not down, like this God awful millennial, whiney, depressing, so-called music.
There’s always someone in the crowd of commenters who has to turn a great performance into their opportunity for a personal rant. Go yell at the clouds you fool.
My older brother was named after miles Davis.. my dad played drums for nearly 70 years.... great jazz drummer taking me to many gigs x we lost our dad in April.. just two weeks ago me and my brother heard this playing in the hilton where we were staying .. my brother miles said " it's dad Joe he giving us a sign " my dad's favourite track of all time xx
Sorry for loss
Great story!
May your sorrows pass quickly....
Be prepared to hear this song a good few times then. Trust me, he'll probably want you to hear this until the day you die! Not that I'd mind, since it's such a good tune. And sorry for your loss
MIGHTY JOE WHITE ??? ........with a unique and greatest way . Respect !
Miles and Trane. Two of the coolest humans to ever walk the planet!
Yes,Yes,Yes, and Yes...how it would be fantastic to observe and hear their collaboration in this era...
seeing them together is like a glitch in history
Don't forget to add Monk.
🐐 🐐 of JAZZ
Don't tell me I'm the only one listening to this in 2025!
Nah
Trying to convince my wife to let me name our first son Miles right now
I'm right here with you!
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I play trumpet
I’m 30 years old, born in ‘92. I try to tell my students at the high school I work at, that THIS IS MUSIC. Nothing like some Miles Davis n Coltrane to start my day with some coffee the smell of morning dew. 🤧🤧 That.. is LIFE.
in my school only i listen to miles and john
Now i really want to be your student
everything is music.....don't misguide your students
@@ashwin87music 'THIS' is music doesnt mean or imply that there is no other type of music
Man.. are you telling me some of my hs teachers back in the day were just 30-something year olds? They seemed ancient to me back then...
When I was a Black little girl back in the 60's and mama would have music like this blasting on her newly aquired RCA Sterio record player it would hurt my ears and boggle my mind that she would play this crazy waaay-out shit that seemed so out of step with the times- why couldn't she groove to Smokey Robinson or Aretha Franklin or James Brown like everyone else i knew?!! And then she'd rub it in by smiling a huge smile on her face while snapping her fingers to this crazy music...I remember looking up into mama’s 22yrs young face and with a puzzled look on my 8yrs face exclaiming, "You're serious huh? You really like this stuff huh (hoping she'd realize she had momentarily lost her mind again) smile and continue her gyrations in complete confidence while saying, "Yeah, I love it!" I felt personally insulted.
I learned later in life while studying music in on of music classes at the University of Southern California that music mama listen to was as classy and jazzy as it gets and that Miles Dewey Davis was THE #1 JAZZ ARTIST OF ALL TIME. I been lovin this shit in a mad crazy way and threw in some Art Blakey, and Wes Montgomery to boot ~_~♡
Uh. She had you when she was 14?
One of my earliest memories in life - waking up in a Sunday morning and Miles playing loud on my father's stereo in the living room...
Love from Athens, Greece!
Miles was a game changer for sure! I never saw him but I did see Art Blakey in DC. Amazing.
@johnmartlewidk kinda messed up
Thank you for a lovely story. You almost brought me to tears.😧
I've been trying to quit smoking so I thought I would listen to some cool jazz...who has a light?
Hi
,😀 I know that feeling. I have been 3 weeks without smoking
Right?
I got the light, you got the cig?
Stop
1:42 This shot goes way too hard. With the dude in the back smoking as Miles lays out some of the tastiest tunes you'll ever hear
We got to be grateful to have this gem accessible in the palm of our hands.
You can her the instruments say “so what” amazing 💯
So what or bebop.
@@kephalopod3054 kinda funny considering how this is intentionally as far from bebop as jazz can be
Exactly.
@Skwhirl It’s the way they are annunciated, that’s what the comment is implying
@@Ismael-kc3ry 😮😮😮 I'm p⁷ my] þ yh]]ĝ HM😂😂😂
Looping
Having the blessing of live footage of Coltrane playing is like having footage of Beethoven playing the piano or conducting a symphony...a true joy.
I queued for return tickets in London in 1985 and the queue was more than worth it. I got to see Miles Davis live from a box seat. Unforgotten to this day and deep in my heart.
You had an experience like no other....
at 1:18 Coltrane is like: Ok I better get my shit ready to follow that. And of course he does.
Trane was thinking of a masterplan
No doubt he had his own "plan" and followed through with it. My original observation and comment wasn't meant to suggest otherwise. Trane was listening to Miles and the video captures a moment of respect. A moment in time where you realize you have to follow greatness and he responds with greatness.
Two musical geniuses at work
+Lane Guthrie hahaha :)
+C Lawson :)
This song and entire album NEVER gets old. Every time I listen to it, it sounds fresh. This entire band is amazing.
Never. This is probably one of the most important and significant works of the 20th century. It's revolutionary today, almost seventy years later.
Masterpiece
@@abumichal you serious?
@@abdullahbhinder9023 yes
@@abumichal to each their own. It's mostly forgotten. Having touched very few people today and will be wiped from memory a few decades on.
@@abdullahbhinder9023 This is NOT the session for the LP, it is from a live TV broadcast by most of the same musicians. The pianist is NOT Bill Evans, who played on the original session. But both versions of this band DID, indeed, change music, and was one of the great bands in jazz history, and Miles and Bill Evans were its two most important members.
Good to see there's still a lot of passion for good jazz music!!!
Always will be !
+SLRok how can you hate songs like this one? ;)
GhostKiller Games it's UA-cam people will find a way to hate anything lol.
SLRok that's unfortunate :/
+SLRok Jazz "music" will never be good.
An all time TV classic. Jazz on TV, in the 1950s. A legendary group. I had the great honor of meeting drummer Jimmy Cobb, seen here. I saw him play, and I met him. I have a picture with him.
He was part of the famous Miles Davis band, from the jazz essential, Kind of Blue album. 1959.
...it never gets old. Miles Davis delivers about the most perfect solo there is to start this gem of a performance. And then John Coltrane takes flight, masterful. This piece of film is a national treasure, or should be. The greatest art form this country ever produced, with two of it's greatest practitioners in top form.
We can’t stay at any better too great musicians have left us a wonderful legacy to play over and over thank you. We were in heaven, both of you.
You can say cool or say Miles. The definition is the same.
Muito legal 👍🏻
A Miles Davis fan here too.
Yes
yes!!! for me ,togheter with marcello mastroianni, miles was the coolest person ever , the definition of cool
if peeing your pants is cool then consider me miles davis
Smoking while Coltrane does his thing. Textbook definition of badass.
Alfredo Bullen ..and he was grooving in place while he stood.
Miles died at the age of 65 from respiratory failure, so I would say more the definition of bad lungs than badass. Miles was a badass, but his smoking sure as hell wasn't the reason.
Coltrane absolutely SHREDS here
...super rude...bad for his health??? Wtf? This video is straight murder and you’re talking health concerns 😂
@Gideon October I'm not a big fan of him but he earned this status for sure. He was an innovator and had this special cool demeanor
Miles is one of a kind , Love Miles , Dizzy , Louis and Chet
Coltrane is the hot shot, but I love Miles Davis insane control and his subtlety and his TONE. It reaches outside of jazz.
R.I.P. Miles Davis
(1926-1991)
That was my Mam's lifespan to the the exact years. This brilliant track should have been her final curtain song.
To think...this was from a half hour special on CBS, featuring Miles and company. Airing on national network TV, circa 1959. Amazing.
This is my first time listening to jazz.I now understand what my wife feels. I now feel it too🎉😮😊
Welcome to heaven my friend
Congrat's , birdie found ya way home ♡
I listen to all sorts of music. Mostly some hard stuff like metal and rock. But Jazz was always my go to along with Classical when I wanted to chill and just think deeply. Jazz is incredible.
I love how Miles walks out of the camera's shot and let's Paul Chambers and his double bass take centre stage. Jimmy Cobb's brushwork is sublime.
Kind of Blue was my first introduction to jazz.
Opened a new world to me.
Same for me.
One of the best pieces of music humanity has produced!
They should have put it in Voyager
Ivar...ABSOLUTELY AGREE!!
how freaking amazing is this
This music helps to define art in the 20th century
My Father R.I.P. Used To Always Play This On Tape When I Was A Child Man I Miss My Father So Much For These Great Memories.
me too---i loved spending time talking about music with my dad
@@atombomb31458 loving song!!! This music never dies
No BS, no trying to play better than the other guy, no trying to show how great you are ... just taking your turn to say what what you have to say within the context of the theme, simple, clear, unadorned, beautiful and clear ... amazing, genius ... I remember growing up in LA, listening to a jazz radio station called KBCA listing to cats like Miles, Jimmy Smith, Dexter Gorden, Gabor Szabo, Wes Montgomery, Coltrane ... hearing their genius play through the quiet stilness of my bedroom at night ...lucky me!
Mario Pookster the legends you have listed, give me goosebumps listening to them, a lost era of real musicians I wish we still had. When people where human and gave us gifts on a simple day where we enjoyed meaningful acts, Cooking, having a drink, a cigar, talking about what drives us to signify the simple things we wish others could relate to that brings us together. I love jazz so much I believe jazz is life.
I first heard Miles while volunteering at my college radio station. Cool stuff. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music
Lucky you, indeed.
Most say it has all deteriorated due to overpopulation, and I can see that is a major factor, but of course, greed and lust for power was always lurking there in any time of ease and prosperity. When the pressure and heat are up like present times, the dross rises to the surface, then the status quo is asserted more vigorously by the stratas of elites, and the common folk are driven into corners by economics, and socially all the simple enjoyments often get buried in the wake of meaningless destruction that follows useless pupose. Get my drift Jason Smith? Just a lot more difficult, and sometimes impossible to relax and think, and enjoy simple things I guess.
Sorry, I forgot to say that you are right! JAZZ IS LIFE. a philosophy of creative co operation brother, so I am swinging with the time and rhythm like you, and we share the love that these inspiring souls still play for us. We bop, and jive, and swing, and lay back to enjoy what COOL really means.
There’s nothing else to possibly add/comment to this celestial music: it’s heaven on earth!!!
The first time I heard this and the Kind of Blue album I literally cried. It hit me hard. I can't even describe the sounds I heard. I had never felt this way about any music.
It's not that bad 😉
Hello Cathy how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family
I remember hearing it back in the sixties,and even as a little boy I knew it was cool! Still love it!
The coolest 9 minutes EVER!!!
R.I.P Miles Davis and John Coltran
They are playing on the other side
Yes, they must be !!!!!!!!!💗
The puffy faces are legendary. The mastery of the moment, the instrument, and the music. Flawless. Nobody better than Miles......and he knew it. All time Diva. If you weren't paying attention and he saw you he might get up and leave.
Love this! I’m teaching my middle school students about Jazz.
Kids, they listen to the listen to the rap music. With their hipping and their hopping and they don't know what the jazz is all about!
dk2853 the only reason I started listening to jazz is because of hip hop and rap so don’t hate!
@dylan foley young people get jazz more than old people get hip hop. I think most old folks just ignorant of the art form, and/or they think hip hop is all about snoop dog and rapping about bitches any guns. But that'll be gangster rap. When you're done studying Tony Williams, you can progress to J Dilla.
PS. I love the old jazz music, it's much more inspired than jazz today.
@@dk2853 ll like I llll
Do your thing woman! I respect the hussle my orchestra taught me how to play the violin in elementary and I much appreciate it and Jazz bc of it
I love the bass line that goes under the melody, perfect.
The bass line is the melody in this tune.
Right it’s so simple but sooo effective..
This quartet was a masterpiece, and one which has never been reproduced. The genius of Miles, Coltrane, Aderly, and Bill Evans, incredible.
Jamal Yusuf Ali Bey .. A masterpiece combo indeed. This particular performance features Miles, Coltrane, and Adderly, with Wynton Kelly on piano (instead of Bill Evans), Paul Chambers ("Mr. P.C.") on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums.
@@pholzer5 Hard to believe the list of musicians is not pinned to the description! Thank you!
@@youtlubesuxxxxxxxok Sure thing! You are most welcome.
Paul Chambers on Bass.
that is Tony Williams - not Cobb
Wynton Kelly on keys shows great restraint by not trying to pick up on Coltrane's intensity but rather brings a smooth and easy break between Coltrane and Miles. It gives the listener a bit of a breather with simple but pleasing phrasing that's like a palette cleanser after the rush of Coltrane's intensity so that the listener doesn't get exhausted trying to keep up with the cascades of notes from 'Trane and Miles. Really artful display of less is more by Kelly.
The genius of Davis is that he creates music that once you put on on its hard to turn off
Great sounds, my favorite is Sketches in Spain.
Miles Davis was a musical genius
So was Trane, Wynton and Paul Cambers. Cobb wasn’t a genius but a great drummer just below that level. The drummer he replaced in the band Philly Joe Jones and the drummer who succeeded him Tony Williams were both geniuses. Plenty of geniuses in jazz at that time across multiple groups!
how?
@@bw2937 are you deaf?
Both Miles and Trane are giants of the art, Trane's solo on this track is short but god almighty it is sublime!
coltrane*??
@@botulismcasserole9832 ‘Trane’ is a nickname bruh
@@ad240p so dude used a formal name and tjen said fuck it and used the informal for the second in statement? While that may be accurate I think at this particular junction dude just fudged it.
@@botulismcasserole9832 ok
@@botulismcasserole9832 ??
That Album, from 1959 changed it all.
So true…
It marked Peak Jazz.
Then other styles took over.
TIMELESS- everybody playing as close to perfection as humanly possible!
How courageous these men were. Miles didn't let the prejudice of the time keep him from sharing his gift and living his purpose. One of the things that strikes me as I watch this is how many different people came together to enjoy this this..music truly transcends all.
John's style is unteachable, either you have it or you don't. The notes he plays are mystical and refreshing to hear.
The gospel of John... it's about the spirit of a man...
Because he's an individual, he had his influences but worked incredibly hard on his own style, ideas, concepts. They say no one practiced more than him. Add that to his natural ability, humility and you get a great musician and man
Dear Miles, I want to thank you deeply for the music you gave to the world and that day after day accompanied my existence. Thanks to you, my life had a background that made it more bearable, more alive and sometimes more magical. You were and always will be a giant of jazz, an innovator. Your creativity, your sound make you a legend. For all this, thank you from the bottom of my heart Miles
When your mastery over an instrument is like Coletrane's, your direct thoughts just come straight out the end of the Sax. There's nothing stopping the flow.
Coltrane makes Miles drop his "Cool",for a split-second,lol 3:40-3:42,his facial expression is priceless.Two Masters of their craft.Peace
Well yea! You can only stay cool for so long in the face of something so gorgous.
I've watched this a million times and never noticed Mile's 'smile' after Coltrane hit those arpeggios. I was too busy checking the trombonist response. Now, you just gave me another reason to watch a few more thousand times:)
When you listen to Miles, and you feel like you know and understand him. The feel is just crazy, you start crafting better in your own field. By him being himself he allows you to be your best self too.
So few minimalists today that let the music speak for itself. No lights, costumes, bombs, trapeze stuff just a few guys defining time in their own creative way replete with volume dynamics, manipulation of tempo and tone; its a woven tapestry for all to listen and study. This tune always makes me think.
This is the best definition of Jazz on the planet!! This is Jazz, Jazz is this!!
Miles Davis and Coltrane 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕Let me be a fly on the wall 😩
I just got to meet and actually work with Cobb at a jazz camp at the Hartt school. the dude is 88 and absolutely killing it, and had the coolest stories I've ever heard. I'm still in disbelief I met him
You are a LUCKY man!!!!
I met him too..after a Nat Adderly gig here..years ago..he took us out onstage..and showed us his Drums!
Sweet!!! Hope you took a 'selfie'?
Stair way to heaven is nowhere near the likes of this
Wow! Just another night on the stage. Making sweet music effortlessly. True talent at its best! Even taking a break with smokes! Would have loved to be in the presence of greatness.
03:36 how he turns to see Coltrane and how the other guy smiles just after that wonderful melody... one of the beautiest thing ive ever heard/seen
Nothing beats the sound of an upright acoustic Bass....Classic..
Roy Eraca - You're exactly right !!!!.....sounds natural, pure, and organic.
I will never tire of listening to this. What a gift.
i LOVE the part just before the 8 minute mark where Chambers brings the main "So What?" theme back in ... i get chills every time. Amazing performance you could never get tired of ...
Whenever I feel that the world is messed up I find my way to this song.
Sweet.
+embe1 I can see and Hear why.
+embe1 So true :)
+Gewooneenliefhebber Kind of true
+embe1 That's cause you have good taste! (The rest of the world is invited too.)
This is arguably the greatest song ever made.
Maybe you don´t know this, but the level of thecnical perfection of this song is just amazing
Most of the people in this comment section know it. These are the big boys(and girls) lol
thecnical perfection of comment questionable
I love having my ears blasted and blessed by Miles Davis on his fabulous trumpet.
There's still only one word to describe this . . . Cool . . . .
Miles Davis is "cool" personified. Look up "Cool" in the dictionary....any dictionary....an' you'll see a picture of Miles.
So Miles.
thats 2 words!
Mcqeen
So what...?
2016 And STILL Miles ahead of the rest!!!
.......Good pun, bro.
What about Frank zappa? Still ahead of the rest!
2016BMWi8 ib
2016BMWi8 bring the drums boomj
@@Agent-nw3me nunca
What a special moment in time and place..., I wonder if each of these wonderfully talented musicians realized at that moment how special and everlasting this recording was and would be...? And here it is today for the world to hear and see... Only at that time a few would hear and very few would see them play... So much more special at that time... today the world hears and sees them play... Forever, playing for all to receive, Blessings upon each who receive...
The best jazz instrumental composition ever
This tune reminds me of a rainy night in NYC overlooking Central Park.
Idk why or how... but same
For me that song is "Changeling" by DJ Shadow but I can easily see it here too. When I first heard this song at 15 my immediate thought was "the coolest cafe in town". haha
Blue in Green always reminds me of being in a cab in NYC at night in the rain.
I just think of the music when I listen to this music. The music in and of itself is beautiful enough.
Lucky you💓
THIS PIECE IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL..
In deed peaceful and loving.
1:15
I saw Miles Davis in Washington D.C. in 1976 when I was 15. I took my stepbrother, a virtuoso classical pianist, to hear him. Miles played with his back to the audience
Why?
@@nelsonbi2008 Miles Davis was someone I really wanted to hear and I thought my step brother would find it interesting
man i wish i was alive back then, just for a day to see this live
goin to see miles ahead this weekend
Coltrane just kills it on that sax...
The coolest of the coolest, Miles and Coltrane, two of the greatest of all times. Changed jazz forever! Awsome, cool my brothers.
Considering Miles just got out of heroin abuse a few years prior and immediately got a contract at Columbia Records, releasing this masterpiece is just another testament to what an amazing artist Miles truly was. An inspiration for generations.
Most definitely one of the greatest.
Everone was a shooter back then Parker and what l found out recently and may surprise you Marilyn Monroe; l kid you not...Yeap Everybody...
The most perfect piece of music I've ever heard in my 59yrs
uv been in 60s?
happy 60th
Still?
mycolortv1 , New Rhumba was pretty good too!
Are you sure this is the best you've ever heard? There are so many other songs. Songs that are more emotional and purposeful.
Impressive how the audio recording of this broadcast still sounds great in 2020.
jazz fan from France, miles davis is really good
oui
Il a très bonne
he is not really good, but he is the legend.
+Abde Debba No Words to Describe Miles Davis! Beyond good, legend or any other adjectives or nouns. Amen!
Uno Only One: Miles Davis
+Abde Debba Can`t agree more
I've warched dozens of drummers over the years-on video and in person-and there is none that I enjoy watching than Buhaina himself,the incredible Art Blakey. 🎉