Why's everyone so combative in their vies of this piece?......I reckon they're oth very bright examples of the world's they'd come from...Miles was the son of a well to do Mid West black dentist..but that didn't stop him getting a big scag habit by the time he was 21...playing with Bird, Dizzy, Max & Bud......some freekin' dentist's son...!!!!!...he was one HOT dot com..trumpet playaaaaa!!!!!!
Am I against smooth Jazz? In a word-yes....but The Miles Davis of the 70's & 80's was not even close to smooth jazz-you think because a bass got plugged in next to a rhodes instead of a Steinway on Miles' watch(es) is reason enough to blame KENNY G and CANDY DULFER on Miles Davis???That is laughable.You wouldn't have bitchslapped Miles after saying that about those performances he did of pop tunes...Miles would have bitchslapped both of you.
@hyperrreal Jazz isn't just hard bob. Miles took what others were doing and had done and took the next step. Jazz is and always has been an evolving music. Fusion is just an evolution of what came before it. It was a product of its time. Just because it isn't a ii-V-I doesn't make it less valid.
@SavicPanylyk It may have been valid, but it sucked major balls. Face it, Miles embrace of fusion was little more than a cheap, lazy sell-out that opened the door to the smooth jazz virus that destroyed the genre. Kenny G and David Sanborn, as much as they were derided, were simply following Miles' lead. Too bad Coltrane died and Miles lived. Trane wouldn't have compromised himself by wearing a purple jacket and blowing pop tunes for an audience of yuppie nimrods.
@hyperrreal except they weren't following his lead, because miles was a masterful musician who was on the forefront of bebop (with parker), hard bop (with his first quintet) modern 60s jazz (with his second quintet), 70s funk and fusion...etc. kenny g has nothing to do with miles.
Miles Davis is too cool for school... @ 3:22 "Dont' tell 'em nothing let 'em guess" POW
Then @ 3:32 son says "They like the mystery" damn if he was lying we still like the mystey Guru Miles. Thanks for shinning for light while here in the flesh your spirit lives on through your music.
When Miles said there are no best dancer or actor, he's right, because there is no best, just "one of the best"...There are a lot of bests, but not one "the best".
Bryant Gumble should not even be in the same room with Miles Davis. He is out of his element. Probably read up on Miles the night before while listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The questions aimed at this trumpet playing icon are inane and idiotic. Why can't these networks, if they want to have a good jazz interview, hire a Down Beat writer or jazz radio station dj to do the question asking. Or have them write the questions? Maybe we'll really learn something about the artist.
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one of the samples on the record "doctorin' the house" is a woman saying "how do they do that?" - that's a true reaction to what Miles Davis did to and on this planet with his music - dude was INTER-GALACTIC
our culture is full of 'gatekeepers' like Letterman, Gumbel, Larry King etc etc who are paid by the powers-that-be to determine what is said and not said - I love the way Miles completely by-passes all that crap in this interview - I've never seen anyone do it better - other than Muhammad Ali of course
@ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD Because ugliness is not a physical attribute. When you have a tune like 'Flamenco Sketches' or 'So What' I'll automatically declare you the most handsome fella in the world, no need to see your mug.
reading the exchange between searcherboy and allgoo19, prompts me to add my own little opinion....
I've loved all of Miles's stuff up until around he went electronic; I dug Jack Johnson and a couple of things where he still sounded like he was playing trumpet ... but when he went electronic he got so abstract it lost meaning for me. Some people might hear Milers Davis farting and think it was musical; personally I reckon most things he did from Bitches Brew onwards was a load of shit.
His musical perception and theory was brilliant, that doesnt mean an opposing musical view cant be just as great. Although i am not reffering to Bryant
Miles did everything so that everyone else can follow certain periods and take it further. I don't particularly like his music after 1970 but I'm pleased that he did what he did as it opened up all the avenues for other people to take it forward
Davis was over the hill when he gave this interview. He had just come out of 6 years of being a hermit-addict, during which he stopped recording and rarely even picked up his horn. Though he eventually got off cocaine and started playing again, he had lost his embouchure and much of his lung power. He never fully regained his technique.
@searcherboy "Davis was over the hill when he gave .."
I don't think his biggest selling point was the technic of playing his instrument but his sharp sense of where the new trend is heading as he call it "Style".
Many musicians and artists would love to have half of what he's got.
@allgoo19 I've been a Miles fan since I first heard 'Kind of Blue' as a kid - still am. I have almost everything he recorded from the 50s to 1970. After that, I don't know, his output was uneven (though his ballads are good). I saw him perform in Toronto in 1983 - frankly, it was a letdown. He just wandered around the stage, blowing what sounded like random notes as his band riffed. Sorry to say, but it was a bore. Jazz-fusion, which Miles pioneered, went nowhere. It became 'Smooth Jazz'. Yuck.
@searcherboy "I've been a Miles fan since I first heard .."
So? Does that cheapen everything or even a part of he accomplished? An artist has to be near perfect all his career to be judged as great?
All the great musicians, artists I know had ups and downs in their career but at the end, all the down sides are forgotten by the fans, but are praised by what they created.
Can you name anybody else had given more impact to the jazz music industry, if not the whole music industry? Not many.
@allgoo19 You misunderstand me. I never suggested that Miles' later work cheapened or diminished what he accomplished in the first 30 years of his career. It just wasn't as good, that's all. Some of it was dreck. Not every note he blew was genius. Goes without saying.
"......outraged critics by deviating from playing the form of music 'they' most felt comfortable with"? what the fuck does that mean? if the critics knew anything about music,they'd be musicians instead of critics.......miles might as well be talking to a 6 year old......
@VUPdingCLICK LOL!! Exactly. What the fuck is a critic anyway?...They don't have real jobs so they have to make a career out of "dumpin" on somebody else!!
The critics are silent frustrated musicians. They use words (journalism) are a means to hurt people - especially the creative types. We shouldn't listen them. Miles was great. And music is powerful.
When I think of Miles Davis, I just vision smoke flowing freely through rays of soft light. Mr. Davis didn't have to "try" at responding to Bryant Gumble's attempt to develope an exchange of thoughts or ideas, and he knew it. I thought this little interview came out as exactly as it should have.
I love his music but he's always saying something negative about white people. If I went around saying negative things about black people I'd have a problem. But it's almost ok that he does. That bothers me.
@solostrad he is not doing heroin here, he quit heroin in 1953 I think it was. He started doing cocaine in the 70s though. Gumbel's facial expression I think is the real gem in this piece. One other thing, if he did math or physics instead of jazz, he could have given enrico fermi, einstien and oppenhiemer a run for their money, he was a genius no matter the field. One other thing, apparently he wuit heroin in a day.
"There's no jazz anymore"--really quite true. In certain ways, people who play be bop today are reactionary (not that that's necessarily or completely negative).
you can learn so much from musicians like miles Davis, john Coltrane chick Corea Herbie Hancock i just like how they were never afraid to make the music that they wanted to make and would switch from a award wining style to something complete different these early pioneers of music were courageous and just simple bold and there names will live forever
Oh my god! LMAO! Of ALL people to interview Miles Davis, BRYANT GUMBEL??? LOL Holy s&&t this is the most hilarious vid I`ve seen all week. The king of arrogance interviews the King of cool. I bet Miles set this up on purpose just to f**k with peoples heads.
Miles is on a higher level. Why did Bryant get this interview?? Miles told Bryant, right off the bat: I'm such a bad-ass that I judge a musician by sight, and I'm right all most all the time!! Bryant's like: I didn't expect this answer (is he judging me by sight?) Yep. Miles sized him up while he was probably composing a song in his head, and thinking about something else. And talking too. I'd be asking Miles if he would PLEASE tell me some stories any experiences he's had.
The ultra rare videos shot of Miles and his band playing the Dark Magus concert is my holy grail. man, that album is unreal. So is the uncanny Live Evil. Live Evil burns the whole place down and replaces it with a new world.
Bryant Gumbel or any other clueless individual like him...did the listening world a favor in these kinds of interviews....it allowed for all to see the simple un adulterated genius of Mr. Davis. Through the idiotic bumbling junior highschool questioning of Bryant Gumble (no offense he did his best)...it revealed Miles brilliance...yet he didn't try to belittle the Gumble..at least he tried not to intentionally...though it kinda happened anyway...LMAO. where's B.Moyers, G.Noble,etc..
Miles gave deep answers to dumb questions. Brians expression during the answers were a look of "damn, I didnt expect that".Gumble did not expect such a deepness.I think Gumble under estimated miles intelligence coming into that interview. Miles was ahead of his time in terms of his thinking when it came to how people connected to celebrities and his music. People thrive on mystery. Let them guess, let them use there own imaginations, wonder becomes the engine. Do the opposite and its curtains
The interviewer is asking such stupid questions and when miles gives him constructive answers he just stares at miles like he is speaking a different language
bryant gumbell, is such a tool. what the hell is going through his head... Miles should have played his horn right in his ear and then farted on his square head
this interviewer is an idiot....Miles has class though, he doesn't make him look like the fool he is, good answers...he is looking at him like "WTF are you thinking with these bullsh*t questions?"
Excellent wisdom by Miles saying that you can't really judge some composition as better than others. And I strongly agree with heru1966: if you define a piece of art like it was a law of physics you simply freeze it and make it static; and art expressions are dynamic, fortunately. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for that, Visibble. You've also drawn a good analogy with another set of 'laws'. When Miles went into the 'electric' period, it troubled many jazz critics. In reality, they needed to step outside of the box a little to be able to relate better to what was going on.
Stanley Crouch DOES NOT GET IT. I think certain 'jazz critics/commentators' (and even fans) are exactly like religious fundamentalists. These are people who are essentially creating rules/parameters as to what a musician should or shouldn't do with SOUND. Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Tutu, Amandla...if Miles had followed the wisdom of this 'critical Taliban', we wouldn't have these gems to enjoy today. Miles ahead!
@heru1966 I agree with you, but you know that Talibans are not the only religious extremists, right? I would say the same about some catholics for that instance.
@MaghoxFr Thanks for that, Maghox. Yes, I used the word 'Taliban' as a euphemism for dogma of all kinds and because it's a word that's become a part of the vernacular. There are some insightful critics, don't get me wrong but I think when people set themselves up as 'jazz critics', by the very label, they're setting themselves up to draw up boundaries of what is or isn't this 'thing'. I myself feel that labels can be misleading and limiting.
@heru1966 100% agree, labels are misleading and limiting but when one label himself that's mediocre. Most critics are, self labeled as agreat thing. Of course that critics are needed and some are indispensable, not this one. cheers
@heru1966 : what a naive dimwit you are...just like the majority of critics of Gumbel on this post. You don't know jack shit about the media & its role, yet you pour your schoolboy invective on Gumbel...Miles would think you are a lightweight dick head...another blatherer he so despised...I met him on a trip to Australia....he's not as 'cool' as you would expect...more a magnificent piss taker....of people like you & the other morons who claim to "be......
@kevinherbert Could you enlighten us on the role of the media, Kevin? That is, in context to the video and the subjects raised in it? Before you do let me quote a few things in your comment: "li
gumble almost acts like a brutha. pretty funny.
BerserkaViking 1 week ago
2:11 "you take out what you want and leave what you don't like..." -Bruce Lee
shawoody 2 weeks ago
'Don't tell them nothin'... let 'em guess...'
astonbrock 2 weeks ago
"They like it; I'm cool."
killerj0e 2 weeks ago
lmfao Get em Miles!
KingGoGurt 2 weeks ago
"But Dizzy would say I'm one of the best." Nuff said.
pencert 1 month ago
follow miles.
eche73 1 month ago
Why's everyone so combative in their vies of this piece?......I reckon they're oth very bright examples of the world's they'd come from...Miles was the son of a well to do Mid West black dentist..but that didn't stop him getting a big scag habit by the time he was 21...playing with Bird, Dizzy, Max & Bud......some freekin' dentist's son...!!!!!...he was one HOT dot com..trumpet playaaaaa!!!!!!
kevinherbert 1 month ago
Bryant G looks like a white boy with mIles.
darinbar 2 months ago
Haha..."I'm cool" love how that ended
Boxerboy16 2 months ago
That is one Cool Cat...
andmaketherain 3 months ago
I love his facial expression when he's says "there ain't no jazz anymore"..... Gumbel is a dork
ritter89 3 months ago
Am I against smooth Jazz? In a word-yes....but The Miles Davis of the 70's & 80's was not even close to smooth jazz-you think because a bass got plugged in next to a rhodes instead of a Steinway on Miles' watch(es) is reason enough to blame KENNY G and CANDY DULFER on Miles Davis???That is laughable.You wouldn't have bitchslapped Miles after saying that about those performances he did of pop tunes...Miles would have bitchslapped both of you.
Guitfiddlejase 4 months ago
This is cool. I wish someone would post Part 2! Thanks.
Streamline09 5 months ago
Man, how square is Bryant Gumbel? The contrast with him and Miles is so telling.
Brilliantbeing 5 months ago
Davis Miles killed jazz. What hind of ass***e would listen to that fusion shit.
hyperrreal 6 months ago
@hyperrreal Jazz isn't just hard bob. Miles took what others were doing and had done and took the next step. Jazz is and always has been an evolving music. Fusion is just an evolution of what came before it. It was a product of its time. Just because it isn't a ii-V-I doesn't make it less valid.
SavicPanylyk 5 months ago 4
@SavicPanylyk It may have been valid, but it sucked major balls. Face it, Miles embrace of fusion was little more than a cheap, lazy sell-out that opened the door to the smooth jazz virus that destroyed the genre. Kenny G and David Sanborn, as much as they were derided, were simply following Miles' lead. Too bad Coltrane died and Miles lived. Trane wouldn't have compromised himself by wearing a purple jacket and blowing pop tunes for an audience of yuppie nimrods.
hyperrreal 5 months ago
@hyperrreal except they weren't following his lead, because miles was a masterful musician who was on the forefront of bebop (with parker), hard bop (with his first quintet) modern 60s jazz (with his second quintet), 70s funk and fusion...etc. kenny g has nothing to do with miles.
flipadiddle 4 months ago
@hyperrreal And you killed this thread.
rayjr62 4 months ago
@hyperrreal Jazz killed itself. I've seen it first hand.
lonhillyer 3 months ago
leave what you don't like, like food. brilliant
mobileaarmy 6 months ago
Miles Davis is too cool for school... @ 3:22 "Dont' tell 'em nothing let 'em guess" POW
Then @ 3:32 son says "They like the mystery" damn if he was lying we still like the mystey Guru Miles. Thanks for shinning for light while here in the flesh your spirit lives on through your music.
bpatient843 6 months ago in playlist ////////
"Don't tell 'em nothing. Let 'em guess." Great man.. Great contrast to the numb-heads of today.
priapus56 7 months ago
bryant gumbel is whiter than willard scott
zwartepiet412 7 months ago
When Miles said there are no best dancer or actor, he's right, because there is no best, just "one of the best"...There are a lot of bests, but not one "the best".
pagalley1 7 months ago
People give Bryant a bad rap, but why does being articulate have to mean that he's an "Uncle Tom", or is it his attitude?
pagalley1 7 months ago
"If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis"
-Billy Madison
JackTheAce1 7 months ago
@JackTheAce1 Why did he make that comment?
lifestraight 6 months ago
"Don't tell 'em nothing. Let 'em guess."
"You can't use the word best in any art form."
These are two quotes people really need to take to heart as artists in my opinion.
Vamphaery 7 months ago
wow, that interviewer is such a jerk!
TheSpambird 7 months ago
Bryant Gumble should not even be in the same room with Miles Davis. He is out of his element. Probably read up on Miles the night before while listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The questions aimed at this trumpet playing icon are inane and idiotic. Why can't these networks, if they want to have a good jazz interview, hire a Down Beat writer or jazz radio station dj to do the question asking. Or have them write the questions? Maybe we'll really learn something about the artist.
lastrada52 7 months ago
@lastrada52 I agree,Saturday night fever soundtrack,lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jwalker7277 7 months ago
The amazing thing about Miles was how simple and sensible his answers were.That is a clear sign of a man who understood himself perfectly.
postatility 7 months ago
bryant gumbel makes wayne brady look like malcolm x
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AliSamMy87 8 months ago
"they like it, I'm cool." Well said Mr. Davis, Well said.
metallifan84 9 months ago
What the world thought of him.
linbstylin 9 months ago
Miles is COOL! He was a genius who didn't care what the world thought of mi
linbstylin 9 months ago
...Laughing my head off here. This interviewer is lame.
mantaishere 9 months ago
I love how Miles or Zappa just show how inane these tv interviewers and the whole homogenized tv attitude is.........
BeauJames59 9 months ago
SCOFIELD!
lafnbuddha 10 months ago
THIS IS A COOL MAN!!!!!! 100%
Futang808 10 months ago
Miles is so cool.."Don't tell them anything, let them guess". "I'm cool" CLASSIC
mattvj5 10 months ago
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis! Great match by a casting director.
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miles says on 2:04.........."there's no jazz anymore"......I believe that...is there jazz?
eltiburonjaws1 10 months ago
miles says on 2:04.........."there's no jazz anymore"......I believe that
eltiburonjaws1 10 months ago
Yeah, 1:11. What the heck! Even if what you think Miles is saying is weird, why would you let it show that much on your face? LOL!
vinylrecordcollector 10 months ago
DAMN...... he is cool.....
nathanalexander28 11 months ago
haaahaha..... that look at 1:11 had me rofl
nathanalexander28 11 months ago
whats wrong with pimpin nothing wrong with pimpin if your looking for a good time
squalidshake 11 months ago
He had just gotten clean off coke... I would have loved to have seen him COMPLETELY SON this faggot Gumbel when he was on the stuff.
TheEsquire212 11 months ago
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jackolavin 11 months ago
@jackolavin 100% truth.
TheEsquire212 11 months ago
the definition of cool
earthchild100 11 months ago
miles ahead......a true legacy of an artist
ebillyboi 11 months ago
Bryant Gumbel. What a knob.
MaxMalone 11 months ago
said it how it was man..
thanks miles
pac0re 11 months ago
one of the samples on the record "doctorin' the house" is a woman saying "how do they do that?" - that's a true reaction to what Miles Davis did to and on this planet with his music - dude was INTER-GALACTIC
sanjuz 11 months ago
our culture is full of 'gatekeepers' like Letterman, Gumbel, Larry King etc etc who are paid by the powers-that-be to determine what is said and not said - I love the way Miles completely by-passes all that crap in this interview - I've never seen anyone do it better - other than Muhammad Ali of course
sanjuz 11 months ago
Where's part two???
accidentalfilms 1 year ago
Miles pwned Gumble.
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ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD 1 year ago
@ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD No. You sir/madam is the ugly one. You are a vile creature with no understanding of what makes a human beautiful.
ashtonnesmith 11 months ago
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ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD 11 months ago
@ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD Because ugliness is not a physical attribute. When you have a tune like 'Flamenco Sketches' or 'So What' I'll automatically declare you the most handsome fella in the world, no need to see your mug.
ashtonnesmith 11 months ago
gumbels face was weak as shit at 1:18
beastguitaist 1 year ago 2
reading the exchange between searcherboy and allgoo19, prompts me to add my own little opinion....
I've loved all of Miles's stuff up until around he went electronic; I dug Jack Johnson and a couple of things where he still sounded like he was playing trumpet ... but when he went electronic he got so abstract it lost meaning for me. Some people might hear Milers Davis farting and think it was musical; personally I reckon most things he did from Bitches Brew onwards was a load of shit.
Blackgeoff1 1 year ago
Miles Davis, visionary, legendary king of this galaxy, his trumpet is telling the story of the unknown... all I can say...
SKULASCHU 1 year ago
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Look at the interviewer at 1:11 and at 1:17
ThePinkFloydPig 1 year ago
Look at the interviewer at 1:11
ThePinkFloydPig 1 year ago
Don't tell em nothin. Let em guess.
supahsekzy 1 year ago
Thats what seperated Miles from other musians...he was ten steps ahead of every one else...
TheGINOWEE 1 year ago
Gumbel had no idea who he was talking to or what he was talking about. Miles makes him sound like an utter fool.
pindaric 1 year ago
THEY like it. I'm cool.
windchasingfists 1 year ago
I think from this it is obvious that Miles had nothing to prove. And he feels no need to charactorize himself or music.
chavruta2000 1 year ago
1:11 Whatchu talkin' 'bout Miles? 1:17 Ah I feels ya Miles....
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@LedZepfan122 Haha best comment ever
TheRealCMeta 8 months ago
@LedZepfan122 LOL!
nucomme 6 months ago
His musical perception and theory was brilliant, that doesnt mean an opposing musical view cant be just as great. Although i am not reffering to Bryant
gumble.
trumpetids 1 year ago
Miles did everything so that everyone else can follow certain periods and take it further. I don't particularly like his music after 1970 but I'm pleased that he did what he did as it opened up all the avenues for other people to take it forward
TehWinnerz 1 year ago
Davis was over the hill when he gave this interview. He had just come out of 6 years of being a hermit-addict, during which he stopped recording and rarely even picked up his horn. Though he eventually got off cocaine and started playing again, he had lost his embouchure and much of his lung power. He never fully regained his technique.
searcherboy 1 year ago
@searcherboy i don't agree with that shit, listen to doo bop his last album
aaronamccoy 1 year ago
@searcherboy "Davis was over the hill when he gave .."
I don't think his biggest selling point was the technic of playing his instrument but his sharp sense of where the new trend is heading as he call it "Style".
Many musicians and artists would love to have half of what he's got.
allgoo19 1 year ago
@allgoo19 I've been a Miles fan since I first heard 'Kind of Blue' as a kid - still am. I have almost everything he recorded from the 50s to 1970. After that, I don't know, his output was uneven (though his ballads are good). I saw him perform in Toronto in 1983 - frankly, it was a letdown. He just wandered around the stage, blowing what sounded like random notes as his band riffed. Sorry to say, but it was a bore. Jazz-fusion, which Miles pioneered, went nowhere. It became 'Smooth Jazz'. Yuck.
searcherboy 1 year ago
@searcherboy "I've been a Miles fan since I first heard .."
So? Does that cheapen everything or even a part of he accomplished? An artist has to be near perfect all his career to be judged as great?
All the great musicians, artists I know had ups and downs in their career but at the end, all the down sides are forgotten by the fans, but are praised by what they created.
Can you name anybody else had given more impact to the jazz music industry, if not the whole music industry? Not many.
allgoo19 1 year ago
@allgoo19 You misunderstand me. I never suggested that Miles' later work cheapened or diminished what he accomplished in the first 30 years of his career. It just wasn't as good, that's all. Some of it was dreck. Not every note he blew was genius. Goes without saying.
searcherboy 1 year ago
@searcherboy "You misunderstand me.."
Speak as loud as you can. Nobody will listen. Many people will like him even more finding his human sides.
How often do you hear people talking about Mozart down time now?
I don't know what you are tyring to accomplish by saying that.
allgoo19 1 year ago
they say miles davis is so cool...your heartbeat slows when you're in his presence.
HolyFerdinand 1 year ago
"......outraged critics by deviating from playing the form of music 'they' most felt comfortable with"? what the fuck does that mean? if the critics knew anything about music,they'd be musicians instead of critics.......miles might as well be talking to a 6 year old......
VUPdingCLICK 1 year ago
@VUPdingCLICK LOL!! Exactly. What the fuck is a critic anyway?...They don't have real jobs so they have to make a career out of "dumpin" on somebody else!!
atlasshrugged2u 1 year ago
gumble is so... textbook..
marche111 1 year ago
What's with Gumble's stupid skeptical expression when Miles is trying to explain how he chooses his musicians?
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krane121 1 year ago
This is probably what Miles was thinking during the interview:
"Damn! Who is this square nigga interviewing me?"
emoneybagz23 1 year ago 33
@emoneybagz23 that was genius!
BehinddTheScreams 1 year ago
@emoneybagz23 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL !!
7thvenom 10 months ago
"You take what you want, and leave what you don't like. You know like food." Now is that so hard to understand. I guess it was for many people.
uhmfar 1 year ago
but dizzy would say i'm one of the best.
nated103 1 year ago
"I'm cool." Yes, he was. RIP.
RayPaganJr 1 year ago
Miles davis is one of the best jazz players of our time. All I can day is east saint Louis all day because he is apart of it he put
East saint Louis on the map in a positive way .
dunkin82ill 1 year ago
@1:13, gumbles face spells out it all, to the interception of what Miles is saying.
He is staggered to even comprehend his vocal dialect, forget about the musical stylings of Miles. Peace. Miles was a master artist.
freqazoidiak 1 year ago
Nice work Bryant...from an old TV producer...and sometime singer
kevinherbert 1 year ago
The critics are silent frustrated musicians. They use words (journalism) are a means to hurt people - especially the creative types. We shouldn't listen them. Miles was great. And music is powerful.
fnkdrmmr 1 year ago
Gumbel acts like a real idiot in this interview while Davis is all class.
avq5 1 year ago
"but Dizzy would say I'm one of the best"
iplaytehbasspipes 1 year ago
He reminds me of Dylan - he just doesn't buy into any BS!
numbskullandy 1 year ago
@numbskullandy Miles' birthday (rip) is one day after Bob Dylan's.
gavincasablanca 1 year ago
When I think of Miles Davis, I just vision smoke flowing freely through rays of soft light. Mr. Davis didn't have to "try" at responding to Bryant Gumble's attempt to develope an exchange of thoughts or ideas, and he knew it. I thought this little interview came out as exactly as it should have.
bindinglines 1 year ago
I love his music but he's always saying something negative about white people. If I went around saying negative things about black people I'd have a problem. But it's almost ok that he does. That bothers me.
AO2509 1 year ago
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JRR951 1 year ago
@JRR951 its other videos
AO2509 1 year ago
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Maybe I missed it in the interview, but where (or what) did he say negative about white people?
JRR951 1 year ago
Miles dont so much play music as he lets it flow out of him self
scottiehypnosis01 1 year ago
Jazz= social music
123Droski 1 year ago
Hillarious. Miles is the man.
rlevanony 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with being honest and straight forward..
MsSongbird32 1 year ago
Miles kicks down wisdom like it ain't no thing.
sex6cult9revolution 1 year ago 4
Some DEEP posts here my brothers......glad to have found where the minds are hangin'!
jonsilence 1 year ago 2
imagine wynton marsalis rockin that hat and carryin a fuckin cane. you cant do it
cuddlesducks 1 year ago 4
heroin is a crazzzzyyyyy drug
solostrad 1 year ago
@solostrad he is not doing heroin here, he quit heroin in 1953 I think it was. He started doing cocaine in the 70s though. Gumbel's facial expression I think is the real gem in this piece. One other thing, if he did math or physics instead of jazz, he could have given enrico fermi, einstien and oppenhiemer a run for their money, he was a genius no matter the field. One other thing, apparently he wuit heroin in a day.
overlordspencerman 1 year ago
@overlordspencerman i know, but it messed him up for ever and he was a stuck up asshole (i read his biography)
solostrad 1 year ago
Miles Davis in his time was the COOLEST MAN on the planet.
bronxman4u2000 1 year ago
If peeing in your pants is cool then consider me Miles Davis!
415BAY415 1 year ago 2
@415BAY415 excuse me?
sparks199 1 year ago
what a cool cat
TheJonathanPace 1 year ago
we found a reincarnation - pale house
palehousepress 1 year ago
the only person that ever managed to make the trumpet talk.
jazzmanEE 1 year ago
Coked up.
passiveMenis 1 year ago
"There's no jazz anymore"--really quite true. In certain ways, people who play be bop today are reactionary (not that that's necessarily or completely negative).
francoisXIV 1 year ago
you can learn so much from musicians like miles Davis, john Coltrane chick Corea Herbie Hancock i just like how they were never afraid to make the music that they wanted to make and would switch from a award wining style to something complete different these early pioneers of music were courageous and just simple bold and there names will live forever
KaMiKaZE6854 1 year ago
Oh my god! LMAO! Of ALL people to interview Miles Davis, BRYANT GUMBEL??? LOL Holy s&&t this is the most hilarious vid I`ve seen all week. The king of arrogance interviews the King of cool. I bet Miles set this up on purpose just to f**k with peoples heads.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
"Don't tell em' nothin.....let em guess..."
johnowensjr1234 1 year ago
"You take out what you want and leave what you don't like. You know, like food."
juustohoyla 1 year ago
Miles is on a higher level. Why did Bryant get this interview?? Miles told Bryant, right off the bat: I'm such a bad-ass that I judge a musician by sight, and I'm right all most all the time!! Bryant's like: I didn't expect this answer (is he judging me by sight?) Yep. Miles sized him up while he was probably composing a song in his head, and thinking about something else. And talking too. I'd be asking Miles if he would PLEASE tell me some stories any experiences he's had.
htomec1 1 year ago 3
ArtEmar4you... 2MilesDAVIS4Ever... ! )
ArtEmar4you 1 year ago
i just reread his book, he is the shit..i highly recommend that book
aaronamccoy 1 year ago
@aaronamccoy whats it called?
carlitojonesius 1 year ago
@carlitojonesius it is the one written by quincy troupe, miles recited him the stories and quincy put it all down..that is a magical book!
aaronamccoy 1 year ago
@carlitojonesius Miles
aaronamccoy 1 year ago
@aaronamccoy What was it called?
DeanoPiano 1 year ago
Miles is like almost to cool to be real it almost seems like here he is a character out of a superfly-era movie
1kydde2 1 year ago
The ultra rare videos shot of Miles and his band playing the Dark Magus concert is my holy grail. man, that album is unreal. So is the uncanny Live Evil. Live Evil burns the whole place down and replaces it with a new world.
sclogse1 1 year ago
hell yeah , YOU ARE COOL
JasonBourne719 1 year ago 5
miles: "I'm Cool." Hell yea.
HippieDrummer06 2 years ago 10
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Mindblowing !! The best album ever.. Had it downloaded from DownloadMusic[.]im , ..
papikecandisdeagu 2 years ago
Bryant Gumbel or any other clueless individual like him...did the listening world a favor in these kinds of interviews....it allowed for all to see the simple un adulterated genius of Mr. Davis. Through the idiotic bumbling junior highschool questioning of Bryant Gumble (no offense he did his best)...it revealed Miles brilliance...yet he didn't try to belittle the Gumble..at least he tried not to intentionally...though it kinda happened anyway...LMAO. where's B.Moyers, G.Noble,etc..
keybobrob 2 years ago 2
Miles gave deep answers to dumb questions. Brians expression during the answers were a look of "damn, I didnt expect that".Gumble did not expect such a deepness.I think Gumble under estimated miles intelligence coming into that interview. Miles was ahead of his time in terms of his thinking when it came to how people connected to celebrities and his music. People thrive on mystery. Let them guess, let them use there own imaginations, wonder becomes the engine. Do the opposite and its curtains
WLKCONSULTING 2 years ago 45
still miles ahead!!!
eche73 2 years ago 5
whats the name of the song at 0:15?
ox092 2 years ago
nvm i found it. Its Moon Dreams
ox092 2 years ago
@ox092 That's Moon Dreams (Brith of the cool)
quutamo87 1 year ago
The interviewer is asking such stupid questions and when miles gives him constructive answers he just stares at miles like he is speaking a different language
Dimmify 2 years ago
bryant gumbell, is such a tool. what the hell is going through his head... Miles should have played his horn right in his ear and then farted on his square head
ecrisisx177 2 years ago 2
I'm COOL!!!
harbansjoeljr 2 years ago
ya, he is cool.
That interview, NOT
slartibartfast68 2 years ago 2
this interviewer is an idiot....Miles has class though, he doesn't make him look like the fool he is, good answers...he is looking at him like "WTF are you thinking with these bullsh*t questions?"
grogcaveman 2 years ago
you're right, strange though... Miles has a lot of respect for Bryan Gumble and would only do an interview with him, no one else!
eche73 2 years ago
@eche73 was wondering how u know that? (not trying to start youtube flame war lol)
Tedward009 1 year ago
his autobiography!
eche73 1 year ago
MD eludes coolness. Bryant Gumbel is a square, but next to miles he looks like Erkel. bet he had miles of pussy lined up in his prime.
BishopCQ 2 years ago
1:18 Bryant Gumbel is shitting brix.
lave4321 2 years ago
It's too bad they only shown the white version of this interview. The black one had so many swears.
chaplan76 2 years ago
Excellent wisdom by Miles saying that you can't really judge some composition as better than others. And I strongly agree with heru1966: if you define a piece of art like it was a law of physics you simply freeze it and make it static; and art expressions are dynamic, fortunately. Thanks for the post.
visibble 2 years ago 5
Thanks for that, Visibble. You've also drawn a good analogy with another set of 'laws'. When Miles went into the 'electric' period, it troubled many jazz critics. In reality, they needed to step outside of the box a little to be able to relate better to what was going on.
heru1966 2 years ago 3
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Miles Davis was a 24 karot prick.
satchelluc 2 years ago
haha i dont agree but thats hillarious!
cortgb 2 years ago
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Well you obviously know all about pricks dont you!!!
Sucking all types a dick makes you a real expert.
Chicken head,
Go listen to Jarvis Cocker.
mykinfoknew 2 years ago
Haha the reporter has no clue. They just used him because he's black.
stratman06 2 years ago 7
Bryant Gumbel simply DOES NOT GET IT.
Stanley Crouch DOES NOT GET IT. I think certain 'jazz critics/commentators' (and even fans) are exactly like religious fundamentalists. These are people who are essentially creating rules/parameters as to what a musician should or shouldn't do with SOUND. Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Tutu, Amandla...if Miles had followed the wisdom of this 'critical Taliban', we wouldn't have these gems to enjoy today. Miles ahead!
heru1966 2 years ago 64
I agree great comment. I've never thought of it like that before
pettrucciisgod 2 years ago
@heru1966 You are sooo right:)
petersinol 1 year ago
@heru1966 I agree with you, but you know that Talibans are not the only religious extremists, right? I would say the same about some catholics for that instance.
MaghoxFr 1 year ago
@MaghoxFr Thanks for that, Maghox. Yes, I used the word 'Taliban' as a euphemism for dogma of all kinds and because it's a word that's become a part of the vernacular. There are some insightful critics, don't get me wrong but I think when people set themselves up as 'jazz critics', by the very label, they're setting themselves up to draw up boundaries of what is or isn't this 'thing'. I myself feel that labels can be misleading and limiting.
heru1966 1 year ago
@heru1966 100% agree, labels are misleading and limiting but when one label himself that's mediocre. Most critics are, self labeled as agreat thing. Of course that critics are needed and some are indispensable, not this one. cheers
MaghoxFr 1 year ago
@heru1966 "Bryant Gumbel simply DOES NOT GET IT."
It's fucking Bryant Gumbel interviewing Miles Davis. This goes without saying.
automap 1 year ago
@heru1966 : what a naive dimwit you are...just like the majority of critics of Gumbel on this post. You don't know jack shit about the media & its role, yet you pour your schoolboy invective on Gumbel...Miles would think you are a lightweight dick head...another blatherer he so despised...I met him on a trip to Australia....he's not as 'cool' as you would expect...more a magnificent piss taker....of people like you & the other morons who claim to "be......
kevinherbert 1 year ago
@kevinherbert Could you enlighten us on the role of the media, Kevin? That is, in context to the video and the subjects raised in it? Before you do let me quote a few things in your comment: "li