Miles Davis - Funk...Calypso Frelimo

[svenkalmar]

i agree...

[sheepgotoheaven1]

Is Miles Davis gonna hafta slap a bitch?

[sheepgotoheaven1]

Is Miles Davis gonna hafta choke a bitch?

[Pooshpanaden]

what a line-up!!! pete cosey,he is the man

[mcrhythm2]

Like that!

[brorapp999]

The greatest Music In The World

[Streamline09]

Miles was open to putting together the ingredients for a dynamic classroom/workshop. And what came through him was pretty awesome. Thanks.

[TheStrammer]

Oooo i znow to samoooo!

[Tfunkize]

FunkSO awesome

[TheMaxonmars]

a little to abstract  ~i prefer funky jazz

[Dr77Funkenstein]

Henderson is GOD...He is so damn good....

[archiverMoth]

chunk churn funk burn

[TheBonneMaman]

I really like Miles' electric period, but it's an improvised music and as such it's consistency may vary over the time, like here. The first part just feels tired after Miles drops out. Also Peter Cosey had better days playing then here. But the Calypso Frelimo part is very interesting, as always with such complex rhythmic music, and everybody keeps it in the pocket...

[iscottm]

luv these crazy guys



[Kurtiz76]

can I say the f word here. holy fuck that is god-like. Thank you

[davidearnhardt1]

Miles is simply the greatest. His music in 1973 is still ahead of the curve in 2011. Everyone is still trying to catch up...

[dhzlatar]

@davidearnhardt1 you damn right. davis reinvented music like 5 or 6 times and everything still sound fresh and new.

[dhzlatar]

@davidearnhardt1 you damn right. davis reinvented music like 5 or 6 times and everything still sound fresh and new.

[Grandhoohah]

When did eight minutes seem to fly by so quickly? Can't get enough of Miles!!!

[diggsduke]

It sounds more like a manatee orgy than elephants, but that's just my opinion...

[natezynski]

Holy crap...this is funkier than funk...

[TheNewsoul2]

I cann see where bands like Sonic Youth, TVOTR and Radiohead got their sick from listening to Miles Davis fusion era and Pete Cosey.

[cowboy68]

killer .love the keith richards in back

[davidearnhardt1]

This is beyond powerful. The 1972-1975 is my favorite period of music from the great Miles - although I must say, I love everything he ever did.

[gertrudeFritsch9854]

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[videocanone]

@1Eu4ic Thanks for the info !

[videocanone]

Or has he tuned the second course of strings to another pitch than the first course, or a flanger perhaps ...

[videocanone]

One of the solos sounds like a 12 string through a ring modulator ... is that Lucas or Cosey ? What brand/model guitar ? Vox Jaguar 12 string ? Anybody ?

[1Eu4ic]

@videocanone It's Cosey, but I have none of the technical information, beyond Yes, I think it is through 12-string vox w/ ring modulator.

[moto3343]

Kooooooooool !!!!!!!

[1Eu4ic]

How can critics say Miles sold out during this period, that he was dissenting from black music? This music conjures up two very clear mental images - urban America and the African jungle - which seem precisely geared towards the young black generation. And I cant really say that about Miles' older stuff, although I love it too! This shit is light-years of anything - nothing conjures up such stanky associations.

[bwanna23]

@1Eu4ic You said it, man. Not just Urban America and African Jungle, but Outer space as well...like Messages from Earth. Sun Ra would approve the Groove.

[Mehumah]

Very cool video. Where did you get it from?

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

Many people thought Miles lost direction during his fusion years and I think they were right.BUT THAT WAS THE POINT AND MILES KNEW IT!This is the s--t right here. Everyone just bouncing and feeding off one another.Spontaneous emmotion digging out roots and flapping wings.This was Thier responce to the counter culture of the sixties.This isnt the best example but Check out 'call it anything' (Isle of White 1970) Unbelievable!The spirit of the Jam.can only be enjoyed with egos checked at the door.

[pdehlsen]

Who says it Calypso Frelimo? Calypso Frelimo only starts at the end when Miles introduces the motif for Leibman's solo. Most of this material is more reminiscent of Dark Magus. Nevertheless - astounding

[BetterTasteThanU]

Junk , not Funk

[BetterTasteThanU]

perfect example of how overrated this hack was

[GatoradeIsNotJuice]

the drummer is straight out of the fat albert cartoon

[MrIlvis]

Thats nice Miles conducting. We should learn from him when conducting classical music. :D

[BetterTasteThanU]

@MrIlvis learn how to make noise?

[fredblassie123]

Pete Cosey is a Bad Ass.............

[jvlivs2]

Who says jazz and funk DON'T mix?!? This cat-Sir Miles Davis-says o.ther.wise, jack!

'Nuff said.

[Endxi]

lol

[Endxi]

doing this duud for music GCSE i dislike him im give the vid a - Thumb, mmm kinky willy my name is henry humphries and i like cheese and poo

[Endxi]

doing this duud for music GCSE i dislike him im give the vid a - Thumb

[voodooSouthDowns]

cool as it gets. 1st February 1975 into the future. i love tomorrow...

[sotool76]

In a planet of his own.

[egyptianminor]

David Liebman never said he 'hated' playing this,just that he felt he wasn't really needed, since this was so guitar/percussion oriented;they weren't playing jazz forms like The Blues or Rhythm Changes. This was essentially a very loud, electric, multi-level rhythm/groove/post Hendrix unit,The Black Panthers if put to music,so it's also understandable he might have felt out of place and like a token white guy in this all African-American ensemble.

[familytreemusic]

@egyptianminor

so charlie haden would have been "the token white guy" in ornette coleman's revolutionary quartet?

i thought at least jazz musicians, of all amerikans, would have been free from this shit: so miles chose you as a member of his band, because he digs your playing, and you're worried that you're going to be the only "white" person? i hope david liebman wasn't/isn't that stupid.

[egyptianminor]

@familytreemusic My bad man, I meant 'token Bop/white guy' in a group where music was not about Jazz solos as much as it was about rhythm & groove.Miles said it so in Autobiography. Of course Lieb got the gig "cause of he's bad,but remeber this was 1973, Civil rights/Black Power still in the works,I meant he MIGHT'VE felt some pressure as the only white guy in the group at the time-Just like Mitch Mitchell did when he 'left''Hendrix and was replaced by Buddy Miles. Peace.

[talkingwall]

@egyptianminor That's ridiculous. Liebman got that gig 'cause he could/can play is ass off. If what you assert were true then why would Miles have replaced him with Sonny Fortune.

[egyptianminor]

@talkingwall What "is ridiculous"?I'm sorry, but maybe you don't know this: David Liebman quit the band in the spring of '74 after they came back from Brazil, he wasn't fired, if that's what you're implying. Miles says in his bio: " I liked the way both Dave and Sonny play".Also,in a way, they're apples & oranges: besides soprano,which both play,Dave's a Tenorist,while Sonny's an Altoist.Peace, Jazz Brother.

[talkingwall]

@egyptianminor No, I know Liebman quit. I've read 1/2 dozen different biographies and the autobiography. I know this guy's story as well as just about anyone. I'm saying Liebman was hired as a token white, that's what's ridiculous.

[talkingwall]

@talkingwall let me make sure I made my point. Liebman absolutely was not hired because he was white. he was hired because he could play his ass off. and yes, I know Sonny Fortune is an alto, Eb soprano, flutist. I know everything published about Miles from 1948 to his death on Sept 28, 1991.

[egyptianminor]

@talkingwall Sure man, My first reply was inaccurate, check out my clarifying comment on page two, I meant token Bop guy, in a guitar/percussion oriented Funk ensemble w/o any chord changes,only vamps, that is, Lieb said he felt his presence was superfluous.Peace.

[elegantpeople88]

Miles Davis to człowiek który wiedział więcej niż inni - on znał proporcje dobrego smaku, nigdy nie za dużo, nigdy nie za mało- tak ot dokładnie pośrodku, jak tatina w maminę. PEACE

[negus1966]

AL FOSTER!!!! Mon batteur miles électric favori! 

[davidearnhardt1]

As far as I am concerned, the 1973-1975 period was Miles Davis' most creative, daring, and exciting period. What a band!

[Dr77Funkenstein]

The best there ever was, the best there ever will be....

[TWOTOSrecords]

AAAAARG why does it stop like that??

[HumanCar]

big trunks getting funky and never mothafucking forget it- MILES FOREVER

[TheIriecycle]

Where have all the flowers gone?

[cssource]

liebman might as well be farting into hjis sax as far as i'm concerned. his playing sounds so bland and uninteresting

[Dr77Funkenstein]

@cssource Yeah Liebman said he hated playing this stuff. Sonny Fortune on Another Unity is way better in his place. But Liebman did do well on Disc 3 of the complete on the corner sessions...

[0Oclockmusic]

if u take heroin, LSD and nitrous at the same time you will SEE this music......

[MEGAMIGA]

Miles is one of my favourite musicians and his Electric Period is one of my favourite one too.

This is fucking wicked! Groovy elephants having an orgy!

Love it!!!

[honeyspur]

It's great to see Miles displaying his excellent band leader abilities in this video.

[Dr77Funkenstein]

I need to see the full concert. This is the best. Is there anyway to purchase this concert?

[sclogse1]

@Dr77Funkenstein

There' s a set of six DVD's that shows up on ebay.

[talkingwall]

@Dr77Funkenstein yes, it is available on Amazon.com for less than $20.00  Miles Davis Live in Vienna

[FDLRemmurd]

who is drummer?

[djoci]

@FDLRemmurd

He's Al Foster.

[theprince65]

@FDLRemmurd it's Al Foster

[podgson]

Miles kills with this line-up! PETE COSEY tearing up a Vox 12 String!!! Damn!!!

[drummer78]

If only Hendrix could have lived to join in on this.

[Bluesdirections]

Davetime, You are my main man. Michael Henderson and what a bass tone. Plus Pete Cosey on electric twelve string. Who would dare play it the way he did ?

[bmuhamad]

Check the tunings on Pete's Gtr.!

[mKL01Q0O]

I knew it was amazing, but not this amazing.

[vanceg]

ELEPHANT ORGY! YES! If this is what they sound like, then I'm a hard-core perverted elephant voyeur....gimme all ya got!

[speedcore3000]

Pete Cosey is the best. I love his solo here.

[HendrixPrinceFlea89]

I got a thumbs down for my previous comment? fuck that it does sound like an elephant orgy and I love it. It sounds funky as shit. thumbs down...fuck you.

[texaskaje]

@HendrixPrinceFlea89

He's right it does sound like an elephant orgy. I spit drink cause I laughed so hard when I read it. F em.

[negus1966]

AL FOSTER!!!! Mon batteur miles electric favori!

[TWOTOSrecords]

OOOOH YEAH!!

@HendrixPrinceFlea89

[TheMrCompletely]

@HendrixPrinceFlea89 elephant orgy FTW, good one for sure

[davetime20]

i love this video. it's my glimpse into what was going on on stage. VERY COOL. MICHEAL HENDERSON on bass, PETE COSEY. IT'S THE BEST!

[biotonk]

4:00.  that's the shit

[r0udy]

the sax solo at the end was completely tasteless but great music other than that

[HendrixPrinceFlea89]

sounds like an elephant orgy. Oh lord help us we need them elephant orgies so much nowadays.

[samsamba08]

Lol, I had no idea Mtume's real last name was Forman.

[Merkaba4203]

What the fuck is Pete Cosey playing????

[vanceg]

A BIG beard...THAT is what he's playing..... (12 string vox guitar tuned to non-unison intervals?)

[ruben1956]

In Wien? Sch...!

[screenflot]

they should give out heroin in jr high music class

[unclejunglebass]

michael henderson and al foster. hell effin yes.

[juanolandia]

Uno más sacado quel otro

[HendrixPrinceFlea89]

good shit. real psycho funk.

[Dr77Funkenstein]

and when I am laid to rest...I want this playing at my funeral all DAY LONG!!!

[ox092]

man i love this reminds me alot of Jimi Hendrix stuff

[Schuh3000]

Can you dig it?

[jrheatwarp]

Lay off the highhat, Foster! Damn!

[petebrag]

oh hell no, that makes the entire oh so grungey!

[bmuhamad]

Check Out Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo for more the

African Vodoun Stylings. affter hearing Miles, Funkadelic, Hendrix, Sly, James Brown, and Fela,

They are Highly original... because... that's where

Vodoun comes from.

[ox092]

btw its frelimo

[ox092]

nice groove going there. Bring da funk to the house

[TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

Ah, the days of Funkapus, with witch doctor Miles Davis cooking up a ferocious stew of voodoo funk and future jazz... Gotta love it.

[jinkeller]

WOW what are, coool sound... Thanks for the post this video

[akibonifa]

Real Pure Funk

[Dr77Funkenstein]

This is the bomb...cant stop listening to it!!

[WorldSystemsMedia]

Good sound quality. "Funk" is a great jam.

[flowsage]

tight

[dc8wg]

So much talent.

[marcomulinex]

I completely agree with TheBelva85!! This video is absolutely awesome!! Facebook is often the shit but it DO need this!!

[TheBelva85]

Real name is Calypso Frelimo, and please do let us use your stuff on facebook dude., or don't post it at all. thx.

[texaskaje]

Wow, that's kind of harsh. Anybody else want me to pull my videos down because they can't use them for their social agendas? Count stands at 2 right now...

[TheMrCompletely]

@texaskaje  - fuck facebook. you rule. this is the bomb

[scotmcg]

Deep!

[metatron62]

Este Señor es ARRECHISIMO!

[westcoast1965]

What the hell kind of guitar is Pete Cosey playing?

[istvanmatis]

this shit goes SO hard. everyone else should just give up.

[bozack7]

i named my son MILES

[MilesHendrix0]

My parents named me after Miles as well. my name was originally going to be Eric but...well, they saw him and were like "screw eric, Miles is his name." XD

[texaskaje]

awesome!

[nectarguru]

A fucking reminder of what it means to JAM

[unclejunglebass]

hell yeah brother

[westcoast1965]

Damn! This is awesome. I've been listenting to "Get up with It" for years and it's such a treasure to come across these gems. Thanks to YouTube and thanks to you for posting this! Where does it come from? I want more!

[roosoomak]

prob'ly the best piece of Music ever recorded.

[jcane28eatsfatpuss]

"And I ain't no bandleader" !!!!

[Whatisthescore]

parliament had to listen to this stuff..

[TheBelva85]

2:18 "RIDEEE OOOON!"

BIG LOLS TO ME :)

[TheBelva85]

hey texas where can i find the entire concert?

[TheBelva85]

Do you have the live? where can i find it!

ps: i'm a crimso fan too. But pompous fripp can only say thank you to Cosey, at least for the 70s crimso sound.

He copied a ton from him and , of course, from Miles. In an interview Pete stated "Robert, the guitarist who was watching me with his binoculars, approached me after the show and said: "I was watching your hands and I just..." It just flipped him out!"

Guess who was that Robert guy..... somebody obssessed with wierd tunings? (rolls eyes)

[talkingwall]

yeah, I made that Fripp-Cosey connection that first time I heard Agharta back in 1976. You can really hear it in this segment. Fripp definitely borrowed from Pete.

[mloaks]

first I heard agharta i was trippin on cubensus shrooms.

no wonder my kids are crazy!

all musicians borrow. but I think Fripp gets a pass on anything he wants...

[loketron]

ok and now its back....so confused??

[texaskaje]

it's probably your isp. that is a common problem with peoples work connection. I ain't takin this down.

[loketron]

what the heck!!!!!!!!!!! i was loving on this video early today and now it says "video no longer available"

lets go ahead and fix that k thanks!

[jazzbubu]

Calypso FRELIMO!

FREnte de LIbertação de MOçambique(Liberation Front of Mozambique) is a political party which was founded in 1962 to fight for Mozambican independence.

[boogster123321]

jazz meet funk, funk meet jazz.

doesnt get any better than this

[didyegethealed]

Texaskaje, This is AWESOME! Thank you so much for posting this mind blowing video (and the other videos). I feel a LOT better... !

[talkingwall]

one of Cosey's weird tunings. He's like a soulful Robert Fripp

[Brock2097]

But isn't Fripp soulful too? :(

I agree though.

[talkingwall]

sure he is. just in a different way. The Sheltering Sky is one of my all-time favorite pieces. There's that interlude after Belew's weirdness that sounds like it could be the soundtrack for dying and going to heaven.

[manbartlett]

holy funk. good lord.

[rusamene]

funk from hell

[dockaiser]

..from heaven

[choo2oo8]

to the land of funk...

[sclogse1]

You know a bunch of these guys got together to reform the On the Corner Band...all good...but, man...how about the Agartha (Get Up With It) or Live Evil band....These guys built the planet Voodoo and then walked on it. God Damn.

[jloch84]

listen to the bass riff henderson throws in at 1:15... nothing funkier than that

[SimonHLucas]

How about Jaco's lick in Birdland, at 1:34 in the Stadthalle Offenbach Concert video?(I like the studio version much better though)

[jloch84]

goddamn... henderson was skinnier than a motherfucker

[StructuralEngineer]

You can easily say how Miles influenced many. NPM is just one of them.

Miles and Miles!

[Katharsis540]

NPM?

[StructuralEngineer]

Nils Peter Molvaer.

[Hashwizard]

This is as evil as it gets!

[McIntiz]

Funkadelic Style!!!

[tomvandyke]

Saw Pete Cosey playing at the newly re-built Miles Davis Academy in Chicago last week. He is awesome. Maybe a better player than he was when this was shot? So there he was, playing for a handful of folks in a school cafeteria. He plays "Jazz in Schools" programs. He is AWESOME guitar player. I was mesmerized by his music that day.

[LONELYOLDTWAT]

Yeah i think Pete Cosey is the best electric guitar player i've ever heard. This whole band is just about as good as it gets - they're all brilliant. imo Pete Cosey is just the best tho - his playing transports me more than hendrix.

[Milessoul]

This is disturbaing ! This is evil. This funky. This is Miles !

[houseemdee]

I can't stop listening to this video

[AJOPDX]

neither can I!!

[houseemdee]

His use of "silence" is brilliant between 4:00 and 6:00. Thanks for the video!

[clotus]

NIIIIIIIIICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!­

[FuzzyHaskins]

what band is this? the bitches brew one?

[AJOPDX]

unfortunately no

[Katharsis540]

what?do u mean by that?

[AJOPDX]

It isn't the original Bitches Brew recording band.

[Belva1]

one name: PETE COSEY. He is BRUTAL.

[rusamene]

my favourite period

[ellusionist32]

thats so sick, milws trumpet sounds like an electrci guitar. he must have beast control

[nowave1]

Holy hell...

The scary thing is that this band just got better the next two years... where are the videos from 1975?? What a groove...

[dmii74]

I'm in total agreement. All 1975 recordings are hidden treasures!!!!!!!

[cheesechoker]

I haven't run across video of anything later than '73, but I'd love to. :(

[Rambo29]

Liebman was knockin those sax solos out the park

[cali22boi]

the funk collective's music was best listened to when you turned it all the way up on your stereo. Miles' funkiest band.

[Yanzazzzz]

Miles David: Jazz, Blues and Funk. 3 styles in a human!!!