Miles providing the ice while John Coltrane played the fire! Brilliant I tell you.

@minichanz

3 жыл бұрын

I love this comment

@Brian4hand

Жыл бұрын

This guy gets it

@mkf628

9 ай бұрын

trane with the bread 🍞miles with the butter🧈

One of the best live performances of any song, ever...

@Avatargodbody777

11 ай бұрын

agreed! and the way coltrane comes in mad smooth! they are having a conversation so soomth

Miles Davis and John Coltrane what a combination of genius playing Jazz

the coolness of miles davis combined with the smoothness and power of coltrane, best jazz piece ever.

@HEAD3455

9 жыл бұрын

no denying that

Thank God. I cant believe i found this on the 2nd of April 2023 and am watching it exactly 64 years later. Simply Awesome. A performance of a Lifetime.

@jfs70ss

3 ай бұрын

Watching this in April of 2024 65 years later. I wouldn't be born until two years later..!! LOL Makes you appreciate life. I'm guessing Ron Carter was one of the few who didn't smoke or drink as he's still alive and all there mentally. The Great Nat King Cole comes to mind. He was said to smoke THREE PACKS a day...!! Crazy...!! I'm just so glad they left us their legacies...!! Peace from the SF Bay Area Ca.

It swings man, that bass line. My God.

If I could travel back in time for a day, this is where I would want to go . . .

@jdez095

8 жыл бұрын

funny thing is if you went back to see this, they would have played a completely different masterpiece as it was all improv lol. #AlternativeUniverseJoke

@castinmeadows6956

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdez095 !!

@jazzorphin

3 жыл бұрын

Take me with you, please !!!!

@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out

2 жыл бұрын

​@@jdez095 that makes absolutely no sense. if he went back to this TV session and heard this, he would hear this live version with Kelly on piano . If he went back to the original session in the studio with Evans on piano, he would hear that version. If he went back to Munich in 1959 he'd hear that version. You don't know wtf you're talking about. stupid joke.

That upright bass deserves total respect. Davis and Coltrane is off the hook. Best jazz ever.

@paulturnet4572

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Chambers, WALKING THE ABSOLUTE HELL OUT OF THAT BASS, SHOWING IT NO MERCY AT ALL !!!

@nassar57

Жыл бұрын

Paul Chambers died young.

@sirjer73

8 ай бұрын

​@nassar57 sad but true. Paul Chambers was an absolute boss!!! His solos he did with the bow was incredible!!

@strollinwitu670

7 ай бұрын

You mean Mr. P.C.? The “Tale of the Fingers?”

The introduction by Robert Herridge makes what follows even more special and enjoyable.... everything seems perfect!

@robertlepper5460

Жыл бұрын

Spoils it

@SELAHPAUSE

Жыл бұрын

@@robertlepper5460😂😂😂

Thank God someone was smart enough to preserve this. I've only seen this video about 50 times and every time I watch it, it still leaves me in ah.

@aydensimpson6337

4 жыл бұрын

In awe, not in ah

@williamwallace5857

2 жыл бұрын

in 'ah' ??

@markfarrington5183

2 жыл бұрын

Well...that, too.@@williamwallace5857

@williamwallace5857

2 жыл бұрын

Thank who ??

@sonyesq

Жыл бұрын

I want to buy in ah now

decades ahead his time..... impressive how fresh they sound... simply impressive. It sounds futuristic also compared to 90% of the music we listen in 2024

Play this before going into war and you'll lose the motivation to fight, turn around and head back home. This is simply brilliant!

@paulturnet4572

5 жыл бұрын

Brilliantly Put, mind if I plagiarize it ?

this is the theme song in my Heaven

....and the heavens opened............................................

100 years from now people will be watching this video in awe!!!! as I am now....

@dpaulku

8 жыл бұрын

+athruaathrua Indeed... and they'll be shocked! Shocked I say... to see that there were times off the mic where musicians actually smoked cigarettes! :o) A stellar line up to be sure.

@stephenstrings

8 жыл бұрын

+Dave K Or rather , 100 years from now , people will be shocked that the stale , live for far too long , risk averse , kill joy fascists that direct opinion now ever came to ascendancy. Sure smoking can shorten life but it is cool and a part of culture.

@renelaplanche7201

3 ай бұрын

Ceux qui ont été dans la salle Sur ,un grand +dans les souvenirs

@demetriussherman476

2 ай бұрын

@@dpaulku "I am shocked, shocked, that such jazz is going on in Casablanca!" "Here is your Miles Davis tickets, you ordered" "Oh hank you very much."

Hard to believe that this song is nearly 60 years old!

Anyone that enjoys "Kind of blue" or the music of Davis should read the book "kind of blue. The making of a masterpiece" by Ashley Kahn. It's a beautifully written book on the album, Davis, and the band as a whole, and an intricate look on the music

Some people are virtuosos with an instrument. Gil Evans was a virtuoso with the jazz orchestra between his detailed writing and use of unconventional instruments (flutes, oboes, French horn, tuba). Gil and Miles created some amazing music together that I'll always love, this TV special offers much proof. ❤❤❤❤

@robertmanno5749

2 ай бұрын

The Gil Evans introduction to So What is actually an orchestration of Bill Evans' original piano intro.

This was such a weird moment in the history of the United State. In 1959, Miles is at the top of his game, recording for the most important U.S. record label, in the best-sounding studios, laying down music that was at the very pinnacle of post-war modernism...the pinnacle not only in the context of music, but in the context of all the arts. He is being broadcast on the CBS television network into millions of homes...nothing is more sophisticated than Miles in American culture, and the guy can't even go to a drug store lunch counter in most cities and order a grilled cheese sandwich! We may have a long way to go yet, but jeez, this country in 1959 had, uh....a much longer way to go.

@trushinitas

2 жыл бұрын

Every time i'm watching these old Miles Davis videos i can't stop thinking about that!

@WhizMitchell

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree. You made a valid point. In the jazz music and entertainment world in most cases he was treated kind of like royalty but to the normal world circa 1959, they let him know who he was, as he dealt with egregious racism and had severe limitations.

@ericdejarlais8348

Жыл бұрын

As good as Miles is, and he is great, all does is set the stage for Coltrane. In less than 2 minutes, Coltrane asserts his technical dominance while Miles smokes a cigarette.

@chrisgore5835

Жыл бұрын

Hmmmm

@Brian4hand

Жыл бұрын

@@ericdejarlais8348it’s two versions of modernism not Coltrane being just ‘better’ …imho…..

I don't think Coltrane has ever been surpassed. God!!! What a talented player.

@raulsouza5866

2 жыл бұрын

Coltrane is like Hendrix or Baden Powell, some musicians come to reinvent their instrument and leave us astonished. Miles himself being the creative force that he was, never reinvented the trumpet like these guys imo (Miles played his ass off, but he had other talents I think, specially composing and knowing how to gather the right people for the right project)

@666rivers

Жыл бұрын

@@raulsouza5866 I'm neither a Jazz nor a Trumpet expert, I just appreciate some of the more obvious players. Miles has always struck me as having an underscored muted tone, suggesting in my opinion a muscular restraint of the deepest anger, such that I can always pick him out of a group (audio format)- but it's always implicit he will be present. Is that something Miles came up with? Did he have a master to study under when he was younger? I've read a decent book on Monk, several on Coltrane- some better than others: Do you or anybody reading this have a Miles Davis book they would recommend? (TIA)

@raulsouza5866

Жыл бұрын

@@666rivers man, read the autobiography of miles, he gives a lot of insights on his music and jazz overall, super recommended.

@PepperWilliams_songcovers

3 ай бұрын

Your sentence needs a little correction: "Coltrane has NEVER been surpassed".❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Maybe in the year 3424?

r.i.p. jimmy cobb-one of the finest jazz drummers of all time !!!!!!!!!!!!!.....awesome video !!!!!

You know, the whole Kind Of Blue was as much as a challenge to play for all involved because of the conception of the music involved -- even Miles knew that those 5 pieces he presented to the sextet would also be challenging himself. But the one person who really had to find a way to discipline himself yet be true to his own way of expressing himself was Coltrane, and I think he did a brilliant job -- so much so, it affected the rest of his life/career in terms of how he both composed his own tunes and how he improvised.

Why aren't there shows like this anymore. It cool we still have this.

Incredible footage.....I have to applaud the producers of this event...... Avant-Gard

The atmosphere and the fantastic playing still give me goose pimples.

One of my favorite tunes. Miles 1st solo improv was so well conceived and delivered-a true Master.

Not only the music, though this video itself is amazing. This mesmerizes me everytime I watch it, makes my night better, soothes me.

Amazing record thank to show it .bravo miles ,john.and all musiciens❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊

freeze frame at 2:37 where Coltrane looks on at Miles....That's a powerful moment

@vonsopas

7 жыл бұрын

I used that very same frame as a wallpaper some time ago...

@lucky4724

6 жыл бұрын

MrBumrah123 wow, classic

@Lilliputian63

5 жыл бұрын

Ahh, but freeze frame at 5:05 and see the moment where Davis, and ALL the other musicians in the cameras frame marvel at Coltrane's beautiful phrasing. Especially look to the dude with the glasses as a small smile curls upon his face. And watch as Davis opens his mouth agape in admiration, just as the director cuts away. Coltrane was sublime.

@MrBumrah123

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lilliputian63 Absolutely incredible moments!

Coltrane on soprano was brilliant----but Coltrane on tenor was God in human form!!

The block of W77th St in New York City between Riverside Avenue and West End Avenue, where Miles lived, was just named ' MILES DAVIS WAY' !! I'm watching this incredible video and listening to these amazing musicians to celebrate this long overdue tribute to the man who personifies the 'cool'.

@HEAD3455

9 жыл бұрын

that's KOOl miles ave.

@ali_ve4now

6 жыл бұрын

they needa make a road for coltrane as well XD

The bass dude is so overlooked and underrated

@nassar57

9 ай бұрын

Paul Chambers. Died young.

@noahs.627

3 ай бұрын

Mr P.C

@PapaEli-pz8ff

3 ай бұрын

Not to the fans.. or anyone actually listening to the music

2:11 The cool that was & still is Miles Davis...

@user-mm1mp9wf2s

7 жыл бұрын

The best Miles solo I've ever heard in jazz screen. Of course Coltrane not in shadow over Miles trumpet, but piano party must play Bill Evans, because So what was created in cooperation with Miles.

These were musicians being musicians… however Miles knew what he was creating here a ‘Masterpiece’

@PepperWilliams_songcovers

3 ай бұрын

Finally, I hear where the word "Masterpiece" is appropriately used!

Mills Davis e John Contrane!! Encontro de gigantes.

Every single time I see this and the other vids from this show, just simply sends chills throughout my bod because it floods my system with beta endorphins, awe, and joy!!!!! It doesn't get any cooler and I can't thank the savvy folks who were responsible for the production of the presentation and having it preserved for future viewing by the laterday media formats!!!!! Much Respect…Mush Love!!!!

Awesome seeing the reaction to John 5:05. Guy in front of Miles is like, "Did I just hear that?". And guy behind Miles is like, "Yup, I just heard that."

I think from now on, every time I feel like listening to this song, I'm just going to watch this video.

This is the absolute best version of Mr.Miles Davis GREAT SONG SO WHAT.!!!

Everyone played brilliantly on this. Great historical piece of film!

Glorious! Just flat out glorious!

Miss Cannonball Adderley on this version.

how can I be so lucky, from the AK, Alaska I the house, Miles rings bright and clear, a bell in the arctic night, a ray in the eternal summer's day

God have Blessed us with these wonderful people ❤thanks for sharing 🎉

Classic Miles truly awesome simple and COOL

Still thee greatest music (ever). Jimmy Cobb? Hell, he continues getting better & better - non stop

Love watching the guys groovin' in the background...classic.

Jimmy Cleveland and Frank Rehak were very underrated trombone players. Nobody was here who wasn't top notch - Trane, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, arranger Gil Evans and of course - Miles Davis. Music of the time reflects a culture more than any other medium. THIS was when American culture was great - because America was great then.

@PepperWilliams_songcovers

3 ай бұрын

Wasn't also Kai Winding there?

@robertmanno5749

2 ай бұрын

The Gil Evans introduction to So What ss actually an orchestration of Bill Evans' original piano intro.

An amazing period when there was true artistry.

Just fantastic.

From the beginning to the end of the song this is TRULY AN ABSOLUTE AMAZING VERSION OF SO WHAT, NOTHING IS LEFT OUT OF THIS “MASTERPIECE” PLAYED BY THE MASTERS THEMSELVES.🎼🎺🎷🎹🥁🎼

Immortals

Davis and Coltrane and Cobb. Amazing.

@PepperWilliams_songcovers

3 ай бұрын

Love how saying those names ring from the mouth......DAVIS, COLTRANE AND COBB! That should be a special ordered drink. "Hey bartender, let me have a DC and C"

Music like this us from the gods! It is other worldly. Kind of Blue is an album that all other jazz music can be measured by. Every composition is now a standard. No matter how many time I listen to So What no matters who playing I am captivated. Timeless!

Paul chambers goin off

@sirjer73

2 жыл бұрын

Paul Chambers WAS A BOSS BEAST!!!

Almost no words.. Genius😌😎

The best music ever.......Miles, Trane.....plus Gil!!! It doesn't get any better than this.....

Listening to Miles Davis and John Coltrane for now about 40 years every time I hear their music I am amazed by its beauty and depth. Another artist who has the same effect on me is Oliver Nelson. One night in the 1980s I sat with four elder jazz musicians in a club where them had finished their concert. There was loud Funk playing and we all chatted happily away and drunk quite heavily. When it got late in the night a piece of music by Oliver Nelson "Stolen Moments" from the album "The Blues and the Abstract Truth" (1961) was played and suddenly the crowd got quiet and all listened to the music. When the track ended there was a moment of silence and the saxophonist remarked into it "damn, this was good". I really recommend for the one who don't know "Stolen Moment" to look it up on KZread and have a "damn, this was good" moment. I envy you to hear this beautiful piece of music for the first time.

@sirjer73

2 жыл бұрын

Shoutout 2 Oliver Nelson another St. Louis area legend like Miles Davis!!!

@PepperWilliams_songcovers

3 ай бұрын

So true!!! Stolen Moments is truly a Masterpiece composed by another superb multi-talented musician....Oliver Nelson!

The best...

Quite possibly the greatest trumpet sound ever captured on tape. Miles' tone on here is absolutely sublime!!!!

Happy birthday to MIles Davis who would've been 93 today, the Jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer, undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in the history of Jazz music, Miles redefined Jazz & made it cool along with his slick suits

the perfect song,

My trumpet is a time machine,and Miles is there to greet me.......

John! John! John!

THANK YOU

Love this! RIP Jimmy Cobb.

Thanks very much.

Brilliant!!!!!

I alternate between Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme most often when I want to play a jazz record, but the former is easier to play more often, so it's by a margin my favourite jazz album ever made. It's a perfect record, really. Cobbled together from mere scraps by a bunch of geniuses in telepathy with one another. Just wonderful.

@raulsouza5866

2 жыл бұрын

Listen to the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Mingus, it is definetely on the same tier of these albums.

MUS 300 1) Miles Davis - trumpet John Coltrane - tenor sax Wynton Kelly - piano Paul Chambers - bass Jimmy Cobb - drums 2) Modal Jazz 3) 32 Bar Form 4) I decided to included this rendition of one of my favorite songs because it truly does tell a story. And I had never before heard anyone else verbalizing it in that same manner as in the beginning. The orchestral intro was truly captivating as well.

Dag! I wish I could have been there. So good.

Yes yes yes, Jimmy Cobb rules

Can you believe the bass run at 2:15. Massive talent.

@RastaSaiyaman

8 жыл бұрын

+Glen MacPherson "Chambers was THE bass player with Miles." - Marcus Miller.

@sirjer73

2 жыл бұрын

Paul Chambers was a BEAST Period!!!

Majestic cool!

I've learned how to play Miles solo on piano, but I still have another 100 years or so to learn Coltrane's❤❤❤❤❤

Sublime.....

Trombones! They add some nice accents.

LUV THIS, TY GRANDPA for introducing me to Miles years ago!!!!!

Wow, this i the coolest there is!

A classical Masterpiece!

Un monde hors du numérique juste stéréo 🎉

I love 💟 Sunday cool jazz 😀

Sublime!

OH MY - WOW! 🤩

What I learn listening to Miles, is it is the attitude of the musician that makes the musician unique. That is the personality that interprets the sounds we hear. Air through a trumpet is not the sounds, it’s the pain and anger flowing from those lungs that soothes.

Coltrane was just 32 years old......LET THAT SINK IN!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Merveilleux

CLASSIC! Trane, the master of the Intro.

Bravo!

7:55 slips in “Surry with the Fringe On Top.” Nice.

The Miles Davis Quintet:- Miles Davis, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor sax; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, acoustic double bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums. 2. Miles Davis, trumpet, fluegel horn, bugle, with Gil Evans and his Orchestra:- Ernie Royal, Clyde Raesinger, Louis Mucci, Johnny Coles, Emmett Berry, trumpet; Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland, Bill Elton, Rod Levitt, trombone; Julius Watkins, Bob Northern, French horn; Bill Barber, tuba; Danny Bank, bass clarinet; John Coltrane, tenor sax; Romeo Penque, Eddie Caine, woodwinds; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, acoustic double bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums; + harp. (Personnel on Camera)

@carolkelly1324

3 жыл бұрын

T H A N K S..

I don't smoke.. but I would if I was at this recording. It looks so cool

Classic performance here. 👌 Vintage Miles all day long.

So what - самое выдающееся произведение М.Девиса в его творчестве. Хочу добавить мысль, что слоган 'Blacks needs matter' имеет прямое отношение к этому замечательному трубачу Спасибо ❤👌👍

In the '70s I lived on same block as Miles....used to see him and Cicely pass by....She acknowledged me most of the time....Miles?....nah

@realmczappa

6 жыл бұрын

mitch cohn sounds about accurate lol

@williemo44

6 жыл бұрын

To be shunned by Miles is the equivalent of being acknowledged by Miles...an honor if you are a jazz fan, a pessimist if you are a people fan.

@Resplencemelodi

5 жыл бұрын

Patrick O'Brien weird I'm pretty sure he was buddies with Chet Baker. Of course he's also allowed to make exceptions

At 5:04, the trombone player is like "oh snap!"

@ericbrower6769

9 ай бұрын

Frank Rehak

Incredible Jazz History... thanks for sharing....

Best year for jazz -- here and in Europe.

I love 5:05 in when Trane goes on a run and trombonist Rod Levitt breaks his conversation with Miles and the other band members and snaps his head to the right to take a look.

@PapaEli-pz8ff

3 ай бұрын

Yep! I noticed that, too 🎵😊

Sheer class