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  • yeah!

  • Such beautiful music.

  • herbie is the man.

  • That's my morning inspiration.

  • Miles aveva la capacità di attrarre i migliori "giovani" in circolazione, li metteva in condizione di rendere al meglio, gli insegnava qualcosa e poi passava ad altro... uno dei più grandi "Musici" di sempre...

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  • una favola in musica...........

  • Choices of notes are definitely very important when you solo, with all my respects of course..Wayne has great choices in his solo. And this song was writen by Victor Feldman. Tony in only 19th years of age. My favor quintet, especially, when Wayne, Herbie started to Write for the quintet. -aa.

  • Hancock is sooo sleepy..:) hahah

  • I think Tony Williams was 17. Crazy, man...

  • it's really hard to find something that they found good enough

  • Yes amazing! Never heard this quintet. And the speed and timing is so good!!!

  • AMAZING!!

  • @mitchwheresmybunny the great dane was 6'7"

  • @overlordspencerman -Carter and Wayman make Stanley Clarke look like a little bassplayer. lol

  • @GargantuanLifeform99 hahaha but if he was already huge why heel stackin ya' shoezzzz¿?

  • Look at little bitty Herbie!!!

  • just got the word from the one and only Marcus Miller....Ron Carter is 6'5". That's a big man.

  • carter looks ginormous. Is it some weird camera effect or whatttt

  • wow joshua must've been the man!

  • Is it 3 still alive? It is sooooooooooo great this.

  • @jazzuffe

    Yeah, Ron, Herbie and Wayne still cook.

  • Ok, thanks for reply.

  • Yeah, Mr. Davis did not look too happy about how Mr. Carter started the tune. Love the frown from Miles Davis.

  • Check out the size of the dude on the bass! King Fuckin Kong!

  • is it just me or does miles look like something went wrong after his count?

  • is it just me or does miles look like the song didn't start the way he counted.

  • Gotta check out the new You Tube Video: SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN - VICTOR FELDMAN LIVE. This is another all time great tune that Victor Feldman wrote for Miles in just one night in the back seat of a car. Read the cool story on VICTOR FELDMAN.COM. Love it!!!

  • Shorter's outta this very world again.

  • This tune was written by Victor Feldman in one night in the back seat of his car!!!If you want to see Victor Feldman play live- unreleased video - on victor feldman.com

    CHECK IT OUT!!!

  • One of the best Wayne Shorter solos that I've ever heard, personally.

  • Tony Williams with 18, Hancock at 24 !

    Same time:

    Beatles charting with "Eight days a week",

    Rolling Stones with "Time is my side" and "Little red rooster",

    Bob Dylan "Don´t think twice" ...

  • @Miwof Great contrast....these artists truly were on the Evolutionary Rocketship moving at blinding speed. As a youngster, I first caught wind of Miles when he went to the Bitches Brew/Live at the Filmore phase. It took me 20 years later before I realized what just happened in this quintet. That is OK, because it is timeless music, and you just have to wish yourself fast enough to catch up with them...and you are there. Love Jazz Music

  • Horn in the middle

  • Victor Feldman from London wrote this one. BTW can peeps stop proclaiming that this group or that group is the best ever lineup etc. That is an exercise in futility! Saying among the best ever is more truthful and satisfactory. This group is certainly one of the baddest and most influential quintets in modern Jazz history!

  • Thanks you so much nujabes for letting me experience music genres that are new for me- I love them already!

  • a musical genius

  • vivere a quei tempi e suonare sì che sarebbe stato bello..

  • @bubbuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw eh beh, decisamente...

  • 6:14 is crazy.

  • Yeah I didn't realize he was so tall. I read somewhere he was about 7ft yeah. He looks like Gandalfe and Miles and Wayne are hobbits.

  • Since it seems necessary to bring race into this, we should personally thank the Americans for lifting the Africans out of Africa where they were subjected to periodic cruelties of cannibalism, slavery, and routine genocide; for teaching these folks structured music on European-designed instruments, signing them to record labels so they can make millions of dollars, and for buying their records. Perhaps we should listen with our ears rather than worrying so much about skin colour.

  • @bucky1900

    The Africans were already in the America's ..see on youtube,"Olmecs of Mexico."

  • Superb....Herbie's deep knowledge of harmony always surprises me!

  • Vintage footage of the "Second Great Quintet", led by the late great Miles Davis...

    captured in performance shortly after Wayne Shorter [joined the group [leaving his post as musical director with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers].

    Jazz music would never be quite the same after Wayne Shorter joined Miles Davis - the Second Great Quintet created the blueprints for much of today's jazz music...along with the "Classic" John Coltrane Quartet, of course...

  • This is probably the best jazz recording ever!!!

  • Can anything be as fantastic at this beside Sonny Rollins at his peak?

  • @jazzuffe - Yes...The Miles Davis Quintet from the year 1967!!!

  • @jazzuffe Yeah...Coltrane at HIS peak!! But this IS pretty smokin'....

  • tony it's a kid

  • The best of the best playing together. Will there ever be a better group of jazz players?

  • it seems Ron Carter comes in on a beat that Miles did n't have in mind...and you see Miles make a face like :pfff...or am I imagining things?

  • @MrEmanuelw I heard he had bad shits from all the heroin...probably a hershey squirt

  • Nujabes - Horn in the Middle

  • @theshowstopper321 Miles kicked his drug habit by this time. After Charlie Parker died, Miles went back to live with his father and to detox. He was clean ever since.

  • @slotho122 Miles kicked heroin in the early 1950s, but it is not true he was clean ever since. He got into cocaine heavily in the 70s.

  • @slotho122 Except for Coke and pills. But whatever man, like a previous commenter said, it's all about the music. His bio is worth reading though, he's real frank and honest about it all.

  • wayne look like he wanna kill herbie for not playin them chords for miles but then he brings it all in niagra falls lili ponds

  • Ah... Tony plays so effortlessly... Such a small drum kit... And a huge sound. I can't help but compare him with a dozen of guys that look like they are pulling a truck but actually sound as mice...

  • Nujabes sampled this for his track 'Horn in the Middle', sounds pretty nice.

  • so burning!

  • A heroin free Miles Davis executing some clean, fast, nice runs. I took a Miles Davis class in college last semester and it was great.

  • @theShowStopper321 Son, I'm glad that Miles' music is being taught in college and that you enjoy it, but I find your reference to drug use gratuitous and ill informed. I suspect if you are truly interested in the details of his private life or those of many, other artists and celebrities for that matter, you would be both surprised and disappointed. All we truly need to know is in the music and only in the music.

  • @ajack2boys

    Actually, his drug use was part of out lectures, and it did affect his playing. Thanks for the opinion.

  • @theShowStopper321 wow really? wat calsss? is this a music college or normal university? i wud love to do that in college

  • Great band, awesome performance. Nuff said. Best band ever though was Max Roach-Clifford Brown-Sonny Rollins... at least for me...just sayin'

  • This was the best fucking Jazz band ever...put it into the 21rst century...there has been nothing new since...

  • I second that statement

  • @acedrumminman nothing new eh?

  • I love the look. The contrast of dark suit and bow tie, black and white imagery on top of disiplined improvisation is amazing. Freeze frame at 2:05 on Hancock's image...Kool...Awesome...It reminds me of the "head" monoliths of Easter Island..It doesn't get any better then this.

  • Wayne and Herb really hook up from 3:54 to 3:57...So excellent.

  • Holy crap... Wayne is frikin amazing

  • Wheee! How terrifying to have Miles get so furious at the count itself, even a quaking Herbie manages to stuff up in the first A section! Why can't people play like this anymore?

  • Yep: nobody really wants to go out on a limb anymore...it's all very safe, unlike this!

  • Very good performance ! The second great quintet was awesome ! 5 Stars , Greatings From Germany

  • When Herbie enters on the top of the A @2:30, everything is truly in it's right place.

  • in jazz circles, "motherfucker" is a term of endearment.

    You know, people really need to lighten up.

  • Great music from great artists. Thanks for posting.

  • man do i love tony williams's playing

  • this is really badass :)

  • Man..Ron Carter looks 9 feet tall in this video

  • Actually 7"2

  • @Legacyoftain Lol... He does.

  • @Legacyoftain Wow, I hadn't noticed that but yea wow. The man is tall.

  • i like the george coleman version best.

  • C'mon, at least say Carter looks like Kevin Garnett, please! He looks so tall because Shorter really is short. Tony Williams is so amazing!

  • Speaking of myths... everything you just espoused.

    Leave your "Truth" at the door. The only Truth needed here is what these five musicians have to say.

  • that bass player look like manute bol..

  • lol@you

  • whoa, he glanced & nodded at the audience!  a weak moment : )

  • who is the bass player?

  • ron carter

  • how tall is the DB player?!

  • i don't know but he looks from the bass like 6'5 or 6'6

  • i am still really confused...... ron carter = amazing bassist one of the best ever....but it looks like the intro timing got screwed up and he looks nervous, and miles gives him a nasty glare. wtf

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  • yeah, and just try and pick up a tempo with fingers just snapping on 2 & 4 at about 200bpm.

    no pick up, nothing...just "snap-snap-snap-snap"

  • yup. Even the great ones can have a bad night. Though I wish I could play as well as their bad nights!

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  • Tony was only 18 at that time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dude, Tony William's was already a seasoned pro by 18...his first recording was with Jackie Mclean at SIXTEEN. And he's just as smokin' on that record as any other....

  • What is the name of Mclean's recording?

    it must have been recorded in1961 or early1962...this guy was just too good

  • He did a few with McLean, but check out "Vertigo".

    And to be completely honest he had already been playing professionally since THIRTEEN with Sam Roberts...but not sure if there are any genuine recordings....I've looked...

  • damn, ron is 6'5'', but he looks like an f ing giant here

  • THE BEST!

  • You are right. Geez, what an awful feeling to have Miles glare at you like that.

  • i know seriously i can see why he is so nervous.. its not really that difficult tho but im sure he is amazing

  • no he didn't.....miles wasn't looking at him after he started anyway

  • youre wrong yes he did and yes he did look at him after he started

  • who the hell cares? listen to the music

    i think you are just jealous you don't have a pedigree as reputable as Miles'

  • Ron the Giant....!!!

  • carter a big boi.

  • It seems as if miles in some way influenced waynes playing. He sounds different here than he did in the Blakey band.

  • Miles influenced everyone's playing. Like Monk, playing with Miles was a transforming experience.

  • does anyone know how tall ron carter is? the man looks like a giant compared to everyone else on the stage, hes got like 2 foot on miles!

  • AWESOME!

  • sorry, confusion, shit happens...

  • are you krazy or just a foooooool

  • wow..they position themselves so perfectly at the start. It could be the perfect jazz silhouette.

  • haha you're so right about the positioning

  • DIGGIN IT MAN! THESE CATS ARE THE END.

  • Greatest jazz combo ever. The absolute apex.

  • irre geil

    jazz chillt

  • Herbie looks so youung....wow...great footage. I wuld personally like to thank the Black musicians and people of African descent for their contributions and strength of charachter for enduring and succeeding after a periodically cruel history. This is the height of musicianship, over forty years ago. I am an Irishman, white, my father was born in the 20's and listened to black music all his life. I get it, I love it and feel it, so thanks.

  • Thanks for such warm remarks regarding the contribution mankind makes to uplift all of us.

  • @psyne000

    Your statement is great and indicates the highest level of awareness about the folks that were largely responsible for so many things that still are not credited to them. See on youtube,"Olmecs of Mexico" This only tip of an iceberg. Thank you for actually reconfirming my belief that not all folks are gullible and cowardly.

  • @jazz1bro It is a humble honour Sir.

  • This is arguably the greatest small band ever! One could obviously argue the fact of Trane's mid-sixties band being just as influential. I know that nobody has pushed the music further since these guys. As a pianist I haven't heard anyone push the evnvelope further than Herbie or McCoy did at this time.

  • ron carter's fingers are over 4 feet long

  • Can you name one quartet that is better than this one?

  • ron carter was a tall motherfucker.

  • oh shit!! yes!

  • He still is.

  • DIVINE!

  • Possible the greatest band ever assembled!!!!

  • ron is beastin it so hard here

  • Superb!*****

  • Whats the bass players name and how tall is he? I he using a 4/4 upright bass?

  • Ron Carter!

  • klasa

  • man... black people have really degraded themselves from this point

  • riiight, because after this era, all african americans that play jazz are degrading themselves.

  • I'm talking about rappers and hiphop con-artists.

  • I agree with you there as most rappers etc do carry a lower moral standard with their music, but it coincides with society today. I think there are many musicians, artists and people who are trying to break away from this but you got to scratch under the surface to find them.

    Tis music is great, I've recently only just discovered Miles Davis. Any recommendations for other jazz musicians........I like the 1930s/402/50s detective movie style......that even isnt a genre haha!

  • Try some Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins or Art Blakey.  That should keep you busy for awhile.

  • that argument is fucking absurd. white ass rock n rollers in the 70s and 80s really carried themselves with the upmost dignity.

  • bitch tits

  • Somebodies gotta do it.

  • Dude, check out come Herbie Hancock... post Miles Davis Quintet. He plays a lot with another great bassist, Dave Holland. One of my favorites... of course, he didn't have the advantage of actually being larger than the bass itself like ole Carter in this... look at the size of that dude! geez!

  • I love how you just said like, all black people have degraded themselves. Like whites and others haven't done the same thing. You people piss me off.

  • This is one of my favorite Miles tunes...love hearing it as a performance. Excellent playing by all...this was one of his best bands. Only thing is a couple of the guys--especially Williams--didn't like George Coleman (tenor)because he was such a perfectionist and so he didn't last too long with them. Beautiful chord changes and rhythm changes in this one.

  • Shut the fuck up you fucktard fuck ups and get a fucking life. Fuck.

  • Woo You on about this black/white stuff . Tony was as queer as a three dollar bill..SO WHAT? Go hag ridin' on somethin' else and leave jazz to jazz and get off your racist trip, dude.plus do hear Joe henderson's version of Joshua It is astounding, maybe it 'll brighten your black day

  • KICKASS!!!!!!

  • loneman maybe you should have read my comment, I was just refering to the racial arguments above and was just saying that this music and band is so great and that people should just enjoy the music rather than argue their racist points of view.

  • Mistakingly, that's the problem! Jazz music internally was not originally orchestrated for people to enjoy. Although the world find it to be of musical excitement, it was born from intense frustration and enraged emotions. Prayer, musical instruments & wine have always been a civilized Negro Black man's tools for spiritual release, & not beating his wife and kids. David, [former king of Israel] had like-minded practices. It is true that the Negro Jazz artists were angry at White America!!!!!!!!

  • And they had the right to be angry, but still there's no difference. Music = Music. Every REAL artist plays with their feeling and emotions, spiritual or not. Wether he is black or white. This isn't about politics! It used to be, but times change, the blacks aren't exploited anymore (expect in racist areas in USA and some parts in Africa), but otherwise..

  • And if they aren't, I still of the opinion everybody, wether the gender or colour or race (which doesn't even exist to me, there's only one REAL race, the HUMAN race) is equal and must have the same rights and opportunities!

  • Not saying that all "White people" are thieves. But the elite ones of Whites are. Stocks and bonds? How was america first industrialised? From the innocent labor of Blacks & Indians. Is this not correct? And the same in EVERYTHING "Whites" accomplish to financially gain. The taking of other people's NATURAL resources is how Europeans packed up their refrigerators and banks etc. As a so called "Black musician" this comment is personal. The White musicians that i've met are blind proud & selfish.

  • I do share your opinion, although you must know not all "white musicians" are blind & selfish & only play for money and to be the best, simple examples.. Ken Vandermark (great Free-jazz Saxplayer) or Jim Black (drummer), they are such amazing and wonderful musicians and I've met Jim Black, believe me.. He can do some crazy shit, but he plays with his heart and is not the least "proud or selfish", the same goes for the musicians he plays with Andrew D'Angelo, Chris Speed, ...

  • And there are more to name, and okay there are such musicians, and no offense to US, but they're usually from the states 'cause lots of times they want to show the world what they can do and learned at school instead of playing real music, with their hart and 'soul'.. I am from Belgium and know quite a lot of Belgium jazzmusicians, and I'll tell you not many are bragging about their abillities, eventhough some play very impressive, it's really not a common thing..

  • thomasloyens...At least you gave a biased comment against US (american) musicians and THEIR traditional Music Theory. I break all the rules of THEIR music cirriculum because it's in my "heart & soul" to do it. My comment was mainly against "american white musicians." Negro pioneer musicians seem to get a bulk of their respect from outside of AMERICA. It's been the case ever since the so-called "British Invasion." Groups like The Rolling Stones admitted who influenced them. that's my comment.

  • Then we agree on that. =) But Vandermark, Jim Black and on are also Americans, but they aren't like many of those traditional players.. and they are the f* top of the contemporary free-jazz scene! =)

  • Well there it is. Listen! I heard the original members of "Return to Forever" kicked butt in Bronx, NY. this past August 2008. An elder Jazz buff expressed the brilliance they musically offered after a 20 semi year hiatus. Lenny White (drummer) even gave a story of how his Therapist helped him to play again. The past years Lenny's arms went out on him at some period - that he couldn't even lift his arms. Lenny official thanks to his Therapist for his sudden physical recovery. True story.

  • whites were also exploited in indentured servitude, as workers on railroads, in mines, in factories, as children, as women, irish, italian, eastern europeans. in countries of color, there are people in the ruling classes enslaving other people of color. let's be clear: anyone who'd play jazz to get rich is a fool, black or white, yet all equally need bread. but don't compare any workin musician to slave owners and rich oppressors. black & white unite! blood is red, wisdom is clear.

  • your point is all well & sounds good. but my reason for comment is to stay as accurate as possible for the young musicians coming up. there are too many young Black & Latinos in america that have been robbed of their culture/being. their ancestors invented music. don't know the past then the future is a big blurr. it's not fair to just only see young Black & Latino's scratching turntables, screamin' in mics and overly dancing. that's a conspiracy whether you see it or not. they're humans too.

  • the vast majority of people are robbed of their creative potential by the system due to the need to make ends meet with long work hours, multiple jobs, in the context of rising costs of living. blacks and latinos particularly suffer the brunt of racist and economic injustice. but you have to let young peeps create their own shit, man. and why jazz? are you equally worried about the decline of work calls and slave spirituals? peeps need the chance to create their own art, just like trane etc