Keith Jarrett about Miles Davis and the Very Slow Beat

[CptChaos88]

good miles davis impression

[ohmphthschwrhu]

the best 'you're fired.' eva.

[casestudyification]

What, is the light hurting his eyes or something?

[yserrant]

"None of that SHIT. Just...beat." I dunno why that's hilarious to me. lol

[Audi0Phil]

Warum auch immer man fills mit Pause übersetzt hat ...

[jamesmotomal]

boertush, u are right! guess maybe because it is so distinct and yet copyable! :) peace

[katofromgreenhornet]

Keith is funny

He has Miles voice & attitude down pat.

He even says "shit" like Miles use to say

LOL!!!!!

[koumisp]

hahahahahahaha :)

[ImaniHekima]

Is it just me who would love to know the identity of the drummer in question? :-)

[egyptianminor]

@ImaniHekima Probably Leon Ndugu Chancler-he subbed for Dejohnette on Miles' summer 1971 European tour.

[pickinstone]

The one take-away I get from this is:

Respect space and simplicity as they are as crucial to musicality as complexity. Music has to breath in between the yells, so to speak.

[pickinstone]

The one take-away I get from this is:

Respect space and simplicity as crucial to musicality as complexity.

[1Eu4ic]

Cool-ass Keith, my man..

[scootilybootily]

he's right, but please have some compassion for us drummers, it's tough too play really slow especially on such a staccato instrument

[thefarmersson]

"fantashdish "

[BeatBay]

great video! where can i get this docu? was it a miles docu?

[acidbug]

lol he actually sounds almost exactly like miles

[whateveritsnoyes]

@acidbug

Doing Miles is extremely easy, most grown males, generally speaking, can do it haha.

[egyptianminor]

The drummer that Keith is referring to is most probably Leon Ndugu Chancler, who as someone else wrote was part of Miles working band during the Summer of 1971 and as Miles said in his bio "...didn't work out". DeJohnette had been in the working group since mid 1969, so it's very unlikely that he still had any trouble creating a drum part to fit Miles' taste.

[C0NTR4B455]

Who say KJ don't have a sense of humour?!? Nice post...

[boertush]

funny how a lot of musician who worked with miles imitate his voice when they are talking about him

[whateveritsnoyes]

@boertush

You can;t say something Miles said without doing his voice. You just can't haha.

[pfaessel1]

...Hysterical! Just a classic Miles Davis story...

[potroastdrummer]

which interview is this? can the whole thing be found anywhere?

[leopolsud]

don't like this man..he always done everything..but where is music. except one titlt on the cellar'r door..he did not play anything with or without Miles!1/10

[maxbezel]

Can you possibly be any less articulate?

[CFried00110]

Where on Electrical Miles does he tell it again?

[teemingup]

Hey...check out "Electrical Miles" there he tells it again, but even funnier.

[EyesOnSkies]

That drummer was me. Sorry I just couldnt stop those fills commin :)

[linusjazz]

Yeah, great story!!!

[systematicabuse]

It'll have been Ndugu Leon Chancler. He was with Miles in the autumn 1971 Euro tour. As was Keith.

[stankology]

very very funny!

[effsixteenblock50]

Since he didn't say explicitly that this incident occurred while *he* was in the band, I'm thinking he might be talking about Miles's nephew, Vincent.

[heru1966]

Or possibly Jack De Johnette, if we're talking about when Keith was in the band? I recall a similar story with Jack.

[ScottyWright]

Sarah Vaughan , Shirley Horn and JImmy Scott were masters of the crawl; drummers had to really commit to the tempo, and understand the reason for a slow tune: SPACE. If all the busy-ness what what the leader wanted, it would be an up-tempo piece.

Examples: 'Round Midnight', Sarah Vaughan on "Live In Japan"

'I Have Dreamed', Jimmy Scott on "Lost and Found"

Shirley Horn- about 80% of her recorded output after 1980

[ColmOSullivanRed]

Dexter Gordon, too. And Eddie Gladden was the perfect drummer to cope with those tempos.

[Epiphoneplayah]

I'm not hip enough to get the funny, someone explain.

[zack489]

A "tempo" is the distance between two or more beats, Miles only clapped one. The tempo could be one beat per hour or one beat per nanosecond.

I can't believe I just explained that...

[clu4u]

@zack489 You did not get the joke, did you.

[d3v4]

Nice story...

[sebajo82]

LOL!....amazing messege for drummers....

[iwanttowatchsomethin]

Let it never be said that Jarret has no appreciation of humor.

[pipi333]

Any guess for who was that drummer not mentioned by Keith? lol

i`d like to know...

[CPBach]

Maybe Kenny Clarke :)?

[Nuxunumo]

keith played with miles when jack dejohnette was the drummer, so it was probably him.

[groovebassist]

Jack was only there for a short time with Keith and Ndugu Chancler came in and Keith hated his playing and threatened to leave if Jack didnt come back so im guessin they are talkin about Ndugu here.

[Rexicano]

No way it was jack dejohnette!

[Nuxunumo]

yea im pretty sure it was jack , because i have the miles davis story on dvd and john mclaughlin talks about the same story and he mentions jack.

[Nuxunumo]

i love how i get negative rep by telling the truth...

[lightfunk]

Don Alias has a dig at Jack's playing in the Bitches Brew (I think) liner notes too. Seems bagging Jack is a popular thing to do.

[thath09]

nice impression

[seiyuhosono]

classic Miles, I love it. A genius.