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  • Listen to that. It's masterful. look at Miles a real Voodo Master,

    brilliant, and all the musicians.

  • Listen to that. It's masterful, exacting and free. look at miles a real voodo master

    brilliant.

  • What was that at the very end? The beatles or something? LOL

  • дикий ацтой, люблю джаз очень но это гофно...

  • some cocaine, but not enough really......

  • great!

  • Johnette is really ripping it up there.

  • LIFE FORCE

  • yes this is my miles

  • Same quintet also made appearance 1 day earlier July 25, 1969 and that concert is more relaxed and better. Hope both concerts will be issued officialy

  • gunshot wound?

  • after this miles made the music on live-evil, jack johnson,live at the fillmore east and get up with it. changed his sound and phrasing but played more 'power-trumpet' than anybody had ever heard him play. theres not a trumpeter alive today who could even find the notes he plays on those albums--let along the timing and lyricism  necessary to make such buck wild ideas fllow together so eloquently. the drop in technique because of arthritic and gunshot pain came much later--after 74.

  • After this Miles started to quickly lose his chops and velocity

  • I t wasn't all his fault, he started to get chronic arthritis afterwards.

  • This is a WAY faster tempo than the album version.

    Just jammin on this one.

  • one of my favorite songs from bitches brew next to Miles Runs Voodoo Down.

  • you smoked too much bro

  • All of today's musicians can learn from this... Don't thik they couldn't play same notes anytime they want ;)

  • Those shades are still cool.

  • 5 stars all the way. More please!

  • Why are you watching this then? If you don't like it.

    PeaceX

  • It´s not their´s fault if you don´t understand this. This is definitely not overrated.

  • > mens room attendant

    insulting, but funny :-)

  • only a fuckin idiot would call this "overrated noise". this is pure clean jazz!

  • Don't blame Hairbandssuck. He brought up a catchy phrase "overrated noise".

    I really could admit, that I'm listening to the sweet and extraordinarry overrated noise :), I'm enjoying it and have no hard feelings to people who couldn't understand it.

    don't think there's something called pure jazz -- for example armstrong is jazz, birdy is jazz, they both are jazz geniuses, but their music is so different.

  • it's great music but it's stupid to call it jazz it was a new music

  • 1969 été live juan les pins (( Antibes Jazz Festival,)) ( marcel.S. / édouard .M./&moi, bb /)?!!wouaho!!!?

    puis après concert session au club?!!  Chick Corea - piano / Dave Holland - ctBass / cristian.wander -drums/..la musique ne seras plus pareil après ce soir la! ~~)^=^(~~

  • That's a nice design you put at the end of your post. What does it mean? (And I'm really not sure what it is.) Bon jour

  • to the guy who claims miles was on drugs and made mistakes: the best improvisers are TAKING RISKS when they play and pushing their boundaries. if this involves 'mistakes' it is with the goal of reaching newer and greater heights. it is an uncensored window to the artist's mind at work. . technial perfection vs. creative invention? i'll take the latter any day. miles was a visionary, one of a kind.

    p.s. i don't hear ONE 'wrong' note in this video. top form. thank you miles.

  • hell hendrix was on drugs when playing and now absolutely nobody can play the notes he did with the same style and emotion he had while he was high xD

  • Even hendrix himself can´t do it again...

    BTW: a comment about hendrix? there is no hendrix in this video, even no rock musician... (but great jazz men)

  • the master. that's all there is to it.

  • my lord...can't this video be a little longer?????...let's say AN ETERNITY LONGER!!!!!!??????

    And people still criticize Miles Davis for whatever reasons...The guy was a force of nature surrounded by TITANS.

  • awesome

  • I was at this gig in '69, or to be more precise, 2 gigs on successive nights. Forty years later, I finally managed to track down a Japanese import, which confirmed my memory that this was the greatest concert I've ever been to. Spellbinding. The quality of the musicianship is beyond belief.

    Kieron Murphy

  • you was there?!!!!!!!

    oh man, i supose that you can die in peace now!!!

    lucky

  • dude, are you serious???? I mean, I kind of worship these guys...It's transcendental...

  • @murficles Whats the CD called. I have heard that the Cellar Door recording is good too? You know anything about that one?

  • @Alemayehu45 I don't have the CD with me: I'm away from home at the moment. I remember it has several spelling mistakes in the title! It's something like Miles Davis Festiva Juan les Pins 1969

    I'll post again when I'm back home.

    I don't know anything about the Cellar Door recording: as far as I know that particular group never made a studio record, although I've heard there are bootlegs. My mate that I went to the gig with all those years ago is still a record 'anorak' and I'll ask him.

    KM

  • @murficles Would you tell me where I could find this Jap import or any other Miles

    from the height of highest culture 1969--75? Also: Hendrix, and Cream.

    Thx

  • @murficles please email me: jasonlynn (plus the dot & the net as these piggy

    censors won't allow..

  • @JTerrible63 Hi Jason the album is: Miles Davis; 1969 Miles Festiva de Juan Pins (I know they've spelt it all wrong!)

    Sony Records SRCS 6843

    I can't remember whether I got it through Amazon or eBay.

    Good luck!

    Murficles

  • @murficles: the show on the 25th, released as "1969 Miles" is still the best-recorded, and best played show I have heard from the Lost Quintet. Bless you for being able to go to these shows and for sticking with the search long enough to find the CD!

  • @murficles Managed to track down a Japanese import? A CD or DVD? What is the title of it. I want to do a search for myself.

  • The "Lost" band...great stuff...Miles was baddass!

  • Dude, that drummer is crazy! much, much faster than the version of this on bitches brew, which is also fantastic.

  • listen to all the hardwork in the background! fuckin great period for music! session men and filers had more talent then than most top bands now... right?¿?¿!!! and paid pennys!

  • Is there more of this concert? Post more.

  • do you know , maybe not hahah , i would love to just walk down a foggy rainy evening were i live walk doen some metal spiral stairs kock on a steal door flap open me smile and door open , walk into a half lit chilled out bar with leather beaten seats and get me self a big stiff one sit down light up and sit a just be with these guys up on the stage now thats fuking heaven , but alas were i live all you got are these fake wine fuking bars

  • What is this far right political rhetoric? Miles is playing his ass off, plain and simple. If you do not understand the music, than graduate from the l950's and l960's. The British Invasion changed America, so you have to keep up.

  • There are people who want to control your thought life. That will be difficult.

  • I love playing Sid Meier's Pirates! to this jam.

  • Not relating to this vid. But if you want to hear Miles at his *peak* technically, pop in E.S.P and dig the solos on Agitation, and the title track. Miles was ON FIRE.

  • Wayne Shorter played at genius level on the second night.Miles came back onstage and took it even higher.Somewhere this exists.

  • This is absolutely magic....un-f****-believable!!­!

  • very well said: MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • On the original "Bitches Brew" recording of 'Spanish Key' the opening MELODY was used as a hook throughout the performance. Yes, a rather simple FORM. This is only a snippet of a live performance. By this time all of Miles' performance were medleys of whatever compositions he was playing. And the drug thing is played out...a lot of trumpeters, saxophonists, and guitarist for example got high or get high and none of them equaled Miles, Bird, or Hendrix...

  • very well said! I heard Steve Grossman became a junkie/went downhill from drugs and never returned to his previous level. cause I feel at least that he was great on Bitches Brew.I love Miles in this.

  • People shouldn't insult what they don't understand...like I didn't understand Tristam Shandy but I still respect and acknowledge that it's a work of genius. Miles is a genius and there's almost nothing that I don't love.

  • Great gig:-D

  • OH MAN..Hw Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas ON it Man

  • Miles said he counselled Dizzy Gillespie on playing his horn and he told Dizzy that he was taught by his teacher in Juliard to play strait out of the horn with no vibrato. That was Miles style. He told Dizzy to blow out and not hold the air in his mouth and neck.

    Easier said than done! This take lung power. So all you guys fighting about Miles, watch and weep. Few have surpassed his skill. He was a ARTIST and will always be remembered as one. He was always the coolest cat on the block

  • Dizzy had a disorder where he couldn't help that he puffed out his cheeks. What book did you learn this from?

  • the disorder was caused by Gillespie not playing trumpet correctly in the first place, kinda like how Louis Armstrong had developed satchel mouth from bad embouchure.) Interestingly enough, Miles's teacher in St. Louis also scolded Miles whenever he used heavy vibrato, which was i guess was used widely at that time.

  • Miles' music speaks for itself. DeJohnette is so crazy here, as is Holland. One of kind and one of a time.

  • or playing it his way, and masterfully controlling his breathing as well as manipulating his horn...It could be all 3, if he was spontaneously playing what he felt...or choosing in the moment to play this way than he really was a genius...listen to "Live @the plugged nickel" tell me what you think about "so what" grated it was live, so a lot of energy was there..Tomasz Stanko who says mile was his mentor/hero plays some amazing notes that side sideways, perhaps this is what you speak of?

  • well stunned I guess you were but there was nothing like seeing Jack Deeeeeejohnette right next to the San Diego Zoo performing,what with the birds and monkeyes howling and you five feet from him and the hash pipe etc................

  • JACK WAS HOT.

  • Jack was indeed hot, and still is. But in the late-60s, with all that power coming from that little kit, it was stunning to hear in person.

  • This quintet is the most exiting band of Miles. Combining free jazz with rock

  • How bout' that tempo!

  • Every note, landed perfectly on point. Without creativity, life is pointless.

  • ~~~~ Awesome ~~~~

  • Mistake? Like what, a "wrong" note? I think that the best feature of this style and period of music, is that, as long as a musician played with intent, the music was right.  I have to say that I hear nothing here that could be categorized as a mistake.

  • I've heard several miles' songs where his horn goes flat or squeaks at an awkward moment, I love his music but if you hear a new rendition of an old song by someone else the horn parts are perfect..now, the mistakes make it all the more authentic and human but it disappoints me to think how much better he could have played if he wasn't strung out on heroin or coke..what do you think?

  • i can see your point, however...

    Miles Davis does not make mistakes. He's just playing things that our ears can't hear and our minds can't comprehend.

  • I get your point. That would be my next thought is that he either plans it that way

    or spontaneously creates it...if that is the case than he really is genious...he is unassailably cool anyway and his genious was that he diddn't give a shit what others thought...

  • Dude, like yeah, we should be high like you and drink Ladybug's earth Dillema. Dude, can I post meal doctrine features? I know, its really there and golden.

  • This was after he got clean you jerk. Stop slandering a great musicien after years after he's passed. Also,get your facts right: He was a recoverung heroin addict (not coke), it was an addiction (not because he thought it made him better, and encouraging strangers to do drugs on the internet is just a retarded thing to do. OH, and it's not a "mistake", it's called playing "outside". That's a few things to keep in mind when listening to miles [or any great jazz music(ien)]

  • Oh so he wasn't doing drugs in the late sixties and seventies? yeah that sounds plausible..how do you account for the tribute to miles album? with all the notes flawless? was that horn player just playingstraight..I have a right to be disappointed that one of my idols hurt himself that way..Are you advocating that drugs do help people creatively? which side of the fence are you on anyway..

  • What are you saying? You clearly didn't read and / or understand what I was saying. I was saying at this point in time Miles Davis was in fact not doing any major drugs (such as heroin). I was also saying that the person I was replying to didn't know for a fact that he was using in ordeer to be creative (It was, however, obviously addiction). ALSO, I was saying that it was stupid of this guy on to post things on YouTube encouraging people to do drugs to get better.

  • Furthermore, I was saying that whatever he thought was a mistake was just a technique called playing

    "outside". Any more questions? Feel free to fully understand my arguments before trying to insult me.

    P.S.

    I don't follow the confines of the fence.

  • Calling it an addiction doesn't make it any better than it was..he chose it and I'm sure he tried as many drugs as he could because he could financially..So, I say it was bad, wrong and self destructive and didn't make his music better and furthermore affected his judgement and dexterity and harmed his health...Yes or no can you agree with some of that? It's possible to remain free of drugs and committed to the music..look at Pat metheny..I say miles made mistakes..at least I blame it on drugs

  • some of his best music came from that time! Birth of the cool? wow. I'm not saying it's because of drugs, no one is, I'm just saying he didn't get on it because he thought it would make him learn to make music. Also, i never said it was a good thing either so stop trying to prove a point that no one cares about.

  • Miles might be here today if it were not for the abuses we're all aware of..everyone knows if your in a drunken stupor or on heroin you'r not going to be on point..that's all..Maybe that's what people are talking about when they say "If it sounds like a mistake, it's jazz" believe me I love the off notes, dissonant chords..at least I had a point of interest rather than inane adjulations...

  • Maybe you should listen to the stuff he actually wrote and played while he was on drugs. You'll notice it's not all "outside". A common misconception is that Miles was on drugs when he recorded Bitches Brew. Wrong. He was an addict at the beggining of his career. Don't undermind the musical breakthroughs of Miles or his contemporaries by saying it was all "inane adjulations". They new what they were doing when they were most influencial. (Even when they were on smack)

  • I was referring to various recordings in the early sixties..with the 2nd famous quintet..and then hearing someone else play it for example...the dedication to mile by brecker/hancock live..the horn player sounds perfectly tight on every note, another one was the "tribute to mile" wallace roney either played each note perfectly, or just different.. I get confused and wonder was miles just being human(making mistakes) or on drugs(which he wouldn't be aware of some much) or just playing it. (cont)

  • What I'm saying is it doesn't fucking matter whether he was doing drugs or not. Sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't. Just listen to his music and don't speculate on the merits or problems of drug use.

  • what the fuck? it does matter...maybe we should all do drugs to be more creative....maybe I should do coke, like miles then maybe I can be a better father...what do you think?

  • He did coke!!! I read it in his Autobiography...so you can't tell me he didn't do coke when he was playing...think like a druggie....they think it makes them better (at everything) desite the evidence against it..

  • you're an idiot

  • This made my day.

  • you're slow......and yes Miles did do major drugs and it didn't make his music, better, original or creative!..it was an addiction and very stupid and selfish...makes for very sloppy music...but what do I know? I just have about 30 or 40 of his cd's, along with thoussands others of Jarrett,hancock,stanko,coltran­e,evans,shorter,carter,metheny­,and many more....so Idiot, what do you have to say for yourself...

  • what i have to say is that kind of blue is the most soulful, incredible album i've ever heard or will probably ever hear. my love for jazz came from that album. so what if he got high during that period? winston churchill got drunk a lot, which is no better. does that make him a sloppy, selfish leader?

    i admit, i was tired and grumpy and idiot was the wrong word to use, but i think you need to open your mind cause it seems to me your opinion is based on what you were told about drugs as a kid.

  • i think you need to specify WHICH drugs...because coke, opiates, and methamphetamines do match your description. but i think weed, while hurting your chops a tad, does increase one's ability to allow ideas to flow, and don't even get me started on psychedelics. you can't just use the blanket term "drugs," because each drug will have a different effect on one's playing.

  • Miles was high when he created "Kind of Blue" was clean for a bit. High again during 65-67. He started going to the gym, new girlfriend, incorporated the fender rhodes to his music, listened to "blacker" music, and stayed clean till he broke up with his girlfriend in the beginning of 1972. Miles between 1967-1972 was at the peak of his career technically. I have LISTENED to a TON of recordings, un-released...

  • and bootlegs (I have a connection). This example here and the concert that was the first set of this performance "Festiva De Juan Pins" released on CD, shows that he is in top form. There are more books and allegations of Miles clean health binge of the years I just stated. He was clean during Bitches and stayed that way till On The Corner. BTW the Plugged Nickle performances were of when Miles came back from hip surgery and he was a tad rusty. Not the best example. Try Miles Smiles, Sorcerer...

  • ...Miles In The Sky, and the gorgeous Filles De Kilamanjaro. As long as the music is good, leave the artist alone.

  • "As long as the music is good, leave the artist alone." I completely agree. As for your detailed history of Miles Davis' drug use, I'll just take your word for it. There isn't enough time in the day to even try to discredit all of that info.

  • fair enough!!!

  • I have loved miles since my exposure to him when I was 3 y.o in 1988. I read EVERYTHING I can get my hands on.I have damn near analyzed this period and beyond that is posted. There are PLENTY of acknowledgements and testimony on Miles clean health binge in the late 60s and first two years of the 70s. I have read at least 6 accredited books on the issue, and you can definitely hear it when listening to the music

  • Yeah dude. although Miles Smiles was the real deal and it came out in 66. his chops during that period were amazing, he really knew how to fly.

  • Drugs are irrelevant. Some people use Miles Davis as a reason to do drugs, other use him as a reason to diss drugs (like you).

    It's true that he had kicked heroin long before 1969, but Miles Davis was known to play around with almost any drug he was offered throughout his career, and actually got hooked on coke pretty soon after this.

    But, seriously people. A lot of good players do drugs, a lot of good players abstain from drugs. Arguing about this topic is phucking ridiculous.

  • But, I very much disagree with the drug-pushing fool who equated Davis's playing "out" to making mistakes.

  • I have remained impartial this entire time. I just can't stand to hear someone discredit a master of music.

  • stop being impartial....give your opinion...the world waits..

  • My opinion? Drugs don't give your thoughts new life, it only enhances what you've already done. So if you need some kind of substance to help organise your thoughts. Be responsable. My opinion is that it depends on the person. People with addictive personalities should definately not try Miles Davis' method of realising their genius.

  • IMO. your statement cant hold in for this clip or time period of Miles. There are plenty of pics showing an "aware, buff, mentally sound miles davis". Miles was at his HIGHEST in the 50s. and again when he disappeared in late 75-80. if you know the music and have hefty knowledge on Miles, then you know that your particular statement cant hold up. maybe if you went to a clip where everyone LAUDs miles most "pure" music like the "John Coltrane years", where miles was HIGH as a kite....

  • This is amazing music. Just as fresh and vital today as it must have been in '69.

  • Miles is one bad mother fucker!5 stars!

  • that beat...

  • The Lost Quintet! Awesome! My vote for best video on YouTube hands down. thank you thank you thank you for making this available to us.

  • So, is it Keith Jarrett or Chick Corea on Electric Piano?

  • If this is Antibes 69 then it is definitely Corea only. That festival is in June I believe so Bitches Brew hadn't even been recorded at this point. What you are watching is the astonishing "lost quintet" on this particular video. Spanish Key was already in the set list before it was recorded. Jarrett did not join the band until May 1970 and when he first came in he played organ, not piano. Corea was the piano man at this point.

  • Miles was the most infuential musician of the past century.The GENIOUS

  • yeah the GREATEST, but not the BEST

  • OMG those sun glasses are bad! That man could play and dress like no other.

    Spanish Key is my favorite cut on Bitches Brew album and this is a treat for me to see this phenomenon in video. Thanks so much for posting and making my evening full of art and music. AHHHHHHHHHH

  • We have got some cool cats here, haven't we?

  • Ah!--why does it cut off like that?! Thats the best music I've ever heard. Smoking hot. Damn!!

  • yeah man - that's some heavy shit

  • Damn thats cool shit!

  • brilliant. A youthful Jack Dejohneete, Wayne Shorter and Dave Holland demonstrate why Miles chose these cats..Amen

  • That little snippet of music at the end was Jimi Hendrix's "Fire".

  • A swingier, faster version than the one he cut on record. I really like it. A masterpiece.

  • is that wayne shorter?

  • I was there and french tv filmed Miles on two nights. There must be a lot more of this out there! They also filmed Coltrane at the same festival a couple of years earlier which I saw on TV in Paris in ?65 w MCoy and Elvin. Chieflittlenuts - got any more?

  • sounds like shit... hate this era of miles' music

  • Thanks for that erudite comment. Try listening with open ears before you dismiss this revolutionary music which still sounds as vital and modern as it did in '69

  • Wow! you mean to say you missed that?!?

  • my friend i feel sad that you have not gotten into this music. Its awsome and gets me on a high every time. It was one of the best periods in music ever!

  • Let me clarify: No.

  • glad to have my ears and NONE of yours...

  • wow, and what do you do for a living mr. jazz genius?

  • I write my OPINION on these dayum message boards knowing full well that it kills folks to hear a different take on mass hysteria. I love Miles' work, simply not all of it. There are era's of his that I believe do not speak to his genius as a musician...

  • stop trying to act like your all different and smart, don't post comments just to get attention

  • attention?? go to hell MF

  • I make sure I don't conform. Funny thing is that folks act like I am not entitled to an opinion. I simply don't like the song... boo-hoo

  • FUCKING HEAVYWEIGHTS! TOO COOL!

  • Slightly uptempo.

  • sounds sped up, i like it. the album version is slower. i like that too. i just love this period of music.

  • Just amazing...Man, Jack is having a field day, this version just kills man, thanks again for posting it...it's incredible how many times Miles changed music, like 4 times or something...who else can make that claim? I'm speechless here... :)

  • I love this period of Miles, so raw. Thanks for posting this video. please more on here put it if you have

  • one of my favorite songs! JAZZ FUSION ROCKS!!!!

  • Man, they're all so skinny. Great tune. That was perhaps Miles' best period in terms of playing the trumpet

  • Thanks to the new improved white horse diet plan!!! ;-)

  • Thanks for posting this, it's so intense and amazing.

  • This is what youtube is meant for. Great up.

  • What an amazing feel Between Dave Holland and DeJohnette.

  • That what as exhilarating as fuck! Lovely to see Jack sliding all over his kit. Thank you for this chieflittlenuts!

  • YES!

  • Where the heck did THIS come from?!

  • The Antibes Jazz Festival, you might be able to find it on The Complete Miles at Antibes

  • EL MEJOR.... SIN COMENTARIOS!

  • go jack go! swing

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