Miles Davis & Co. At the Isle of Wight Festival

[bowmaker11]

LOL! does anybody actually like that shit ?

[eberniewon]

A 41 year old video ? Quality is amazing..!!! Airto, DeJohnette, Jarrett, Dave Holland..Interstingly probably the last recorded vid of Jarrett on electric piano...This sounds similar to Miles at the Fillmore East..

[VOLGON49]

Na bateria eu não sei mas na percussão é o brasileiro Airto Moreira

[teetosh]

Miles. Keith Jarrett-RMI, Dave Holland-Bass, Jack DeJohnette-Drums, Gary Bartz-Sax, Aierto-Percussion and some Chick from Korea on Keys.

[daneslav]

Is that Richard Pryor on the drums?

[degree7]

Jazz is the most difficult thing for me to understand, it seems to have no direction.

[stupididiot13]

@degree7 music is sounds... not notes and scribblings on paper...it is that simple

[degree7]

@stupididiot13

Wut?

[iguanalunar]

@degree7 Jazz makes me feel nervous, cause the fact of having no direction keeps giving me surprises, I never know what to wait about the next second of the song. I find it hard to understand too...

[niceonemicky]

Two Chambermaids I worked with at the Bayshore Hotel On the Isle of Wight, Grace from Elm Park and Chip from god knows where thought these guys were great I still do not get it though Grace was very artistic.

Scouse Micky. Hendrix Was great.

[IDontLiveTodayJH]

Man, Hendrix was on a few hours later, why couldn't they have jammed!!??

[DjAntomattei]

@IDontLiveTodayJH Who knows man, maybe Hendrix was dying at the time they were performing yeah. Or maybe that was immediately after the festival was over is when he died. Trying to recall.

[clwb0fpv]

Horrible intro, but after that, fabulous music. To bad it had to be cut :-(

[augustomamao]

Grande baterista e percussionista brasileiro Airto Moreira detonando junto a Miles!!!!!

[vveneziani]

Awesome man. Paid attention to ELP at this particular fest but cool to see Miles and the gang there as well.

[nobodady1]

Miles moved away from playing off chords and toward playing off sounds. He even said of Bill Evans that he didn't play harmonies but sounds. This is probably how Miles heard music from early on -- he knew his harmony, but sound is always a bit of a mystery.

[adewolf]

I wonder what ELP thought of Miles and what Miles thought of ELP....

[1970Frenzy]

this performance ( about 35 minutes long ) is a MUST for everyone who loves jazz and fusion! Download it or buy it!

[spaceprophetdogon]

Post bitches brew Miles up to 1974 and The Dark Magus(one of the best and heaviest records that idiot critics hated) is of the best output a single man has ever come up with. This psychedelic jazz, a sorcerer in action. God Bless Miles And Those Who Sail With Him.

[saxman1141]

its funny i have never seen miles davis wear jeans great video tho

[niltonyukina]

daqui a uns 100 anos talvez, as pessoas vão tentar compreender esse sentimento!

Miles Davis lives forever!!!

[modularblur]

Cooler than a motherfucker!

[JeremyDO1]

We've got Miles, Jarett (kb), Corea (kb), Dejohnette (dms), Holland (bass), Airto Moreira (percussions), and Gary Bartz (sax) :)

[zakcattack]

what's the lineup? Here's my guesses, correct me if wrong: Corea, Zawinul, Cobham. I don't know bassist, shaker guy and sax

[Pudersepp]

@zakcattack

"shaker guy", lol that!

[blakevickrey]

@zakcattack Bassist is Dave Holland, drummer is Jack Dejohnette

[zakcattack]

@blakevickrey sick, thanks man

[nidgeb70]

@blakevickrey yeah man n those guys still hammer it out,class musicians

[chalkietalkie]

I can't get over how amazing this is.

Anybody know where you can grab the whole of this performance on the internet? There seems to be another concert on the same date, which includes Bitches Brew?

[237family]

Airto is fckng Sickman! dope shit !)))

[olesne]

"F all you white folks! I'm Miles Davis Bitch!"

[DaChBlog]

Best band after italian AREA.

[ThePaulmatheson]

Astonishing. The funk!

[camalban01]

Call it anything!

[khudnuf]

"What is the name of this single?" ;)

[ComplimentaryFlush]

This show, all 38min of it, made me a fan of jazz.

[mohomoho1]

This is one of the reasons he should go down in the history books as the greatest musician the U.S. has ever had or seen!!!!!This funky stuff!!!!

[theachtungtree]

wow....im with you...totally...miles davis did some dense stuff back then...mindblowing

[supahsekzy]

I would agree that Miles is, all around, the most important musician in the 20th century.

[talpajam]

so how do we define Coltrane ?..not disagreeing just looking for his place on the mantle.

[bodymoves]

i totally agree. no one is touching him.

[MrElemental84]

This music is hot !

[PerryCoxPF93]

Jack looks pretty stoned

[DizzyShaw]

LOL Keith is goofy in this video!

[halldomain]

QUE JEFE

[snubbs741]

this is cool but i kind of feel like i walked in on the middle of a conversation and i don't really know what they're talking about right away

[purphanz]

they shouldve played with hendrix

[mloaks]

they did some with Mahavishnu!

[MahavishnuOrchestra1]

NICE!!!!

[tomeshuggah]

they had plans to...

but jimi's early death prevented that from happening.

that was surely a breathtaking sound.

although, john mclaughlin's sound is the shit!

:)

[Eeasyskankin]

Ahh man. What a contrast to his earlier solid blues. Some funky shitt!

[wesbroadway]

this is totally ill, as was almost everything from him during this era. rad to watch it live. thanks yo...

[Magog64]

Viva Miles!!!!

[zndprophet]

damn there was a lot of creative energy circulating at the time this concert took place

[yragntman]

Keith Jarrett, piano Chick Corea, piano Gary Bartz, tenor Dave Holland, bass Jack DeJohnette, drums and Airto Moreira, percussion

[muttville1]

who's on the drums?

[supahsekzy]

i'm gonna say dejohnette

[betorush]

Jack DeJohnette

[ku4iq6]

maaaaaaan, this is brutal!

[onnomon]

yep this music works on so many more levels than verse-chorus-verse...

[firstbornson1952]

Music is to be appreciated. Not critiqued if the music and musicians bother you, then do not listen.

[NikkiMackenzie3]

cant people just listen to music without having to makes comments to make themselves sound deep. people are just saying bullshit they probably dont even understand, themselves. just listen to the music because thats what its all about after all :)

[yorokondo]

that's horrible, one of the worst gigs ever

[bazz991]

I agree with you. every one here is blindly defending though =P

[otavioandradas]

your opinion is irrelevant

[alanmccluskey]

there ain't no sanity clause......

[Justino111]

I've finally watched "A different Kind of Blue". It's a problem when people give too much credit to music critics. Most of them are completely useless. Even in the renaissance a genius like Monteverdi had to deal with pathetic people like Artusi. Stanley Crouch is musically incapable of understanding what Bitches Brew was about. The funny thing is that Stanley Crouch will go down in history as a NOBODY, while Miles as one of the greatest musicians who has ever lived.

[viooltjie]

The funny thing about Stanley Crouch is the things he writes. He is already regretting the negative reviews he gave Bitches Brew and calling Miles a sell out. The worst thing he ever wrote was when he said Barak Obama is not black! Never in my life did I read so much bullshit. Yes he will be remembered for being a journalist who writes nonsense.

[Justino111]

@viooltjie i didn't know Stanley Crouch wrote that about Obama!!! That's kind of sad...

It looks like he needs to write that kind of BS to get some kind of attention. The guy is sick.

[musicmanson]

@Justino111 Who the hell is Stanley Crouch?

[needledropdamagedone]

@Justino111 Well said man, cheers.

[yserrant]

Did you hear that shit he did at 3:29 to 3:33 on the horn!? Got damn that gets me every time I listen to it. How did he do that!? It just sounds hard to do and I don't even know how to play the trumpet.

[stektflask]

Alocohol is the ultimate test wheater or not your a true artist. The ones who are to weak to handle that lifestyle tries to reducule the true masters.

[Justino111]

ohh...I see...INDEED you HAVE NO CLUE of what you are talking about!!! HAHAHAHA...

"alcohol is the ultimate test...". If you had at least SOME MINIMUM knowledge of what ART is about, you wouldn't be writing these silly comments.

[stektflask]

well I glad that I provoked some people by humbly writing an opinion. That is art to me. I think most art happens in real life in real time. Artists/musicians just happen to document this in a tangeble form, I am sorry to ruin your facade.

[Justino111]

first of all, you did not provoke anything. Second, you clearly shows that you don't know anything about art - your last message proves it once again. Third, you're a hypocrite. You don't know me, you don't know what I do. My "facade" is the product of your futile imagination. If you cannot accept being confronted after vomiting silly remarks about art, then spare us from your obvious naïveté.

[stektflask]

Send me some music that you made in that case. Stop talking shit, prove it instead.

[Justino111]

you simply attacked a musician like Keith Jarrett trying to use the argument that alcohol is the true bla bla bla bla...and still expect people to take you seriously? And since when anything in life happens outside real life? Art and madness walk together. But what's not madness? what about the millions of zombies who spend hours drinking and watching something as silly as the Super Bowl?So...what about alcohol again??

Maybe Art is the last residue of sanity.

[bazz991]

Fuck sanity.  Who are you trying to impress? =P I never liked normal people.

[Justino111]

hahaha....another one who has no clue about what's being watched, heard, and discussed.

you guys are too predictable!!! You are too NORMAL.

[bazz991]

you jus call me normal? I know its miles..coolest guy on earth...but his band's pretty fucked on drugs there... i'm way too awesome to be normal. fool.

[Justino111]

whatever, bye

[bazz991]

rite. big words.

[stektflask]

Academics trying to be deep. Keith Jarrett wouldnt even last one week of drinking, I can never respect a person like that.

[Justino111]

hahahaha...academics trying to be deep???

what are u talking about???? You can never respect whom? a person like Keith Jarrett???? So...the question is...WHO ARE YOU??? and the next question is...WHO CARES????

[anandanaga999]

HIGH. Nobody knows what High Is. People think High is Stealin' cars not kissing God. They, are idiots. and have no ears. The music is the Mantra and the wise.continue to serve, and the rest, probably will go hang around form a gang to take away what the enlightened have gained and steal it- not knowing what to do with it -just to fence it ,for sex, or dope

[lecarreso]

the first & pure jazz-rock

[mUsr001]

that's some pretty good quality filming for 1970

[njdrumguy1]

Airto on percussion, but who's the drummer ? Jack dejohnette??

[burbulasdzo]

Yeah, thats Jack

[Lerbedeknorst]

I wish I was the guy with the Giant Peppermill high on crack!

[TLauncher]

anus

[sumitino]

brief comment about the isle of wright festival in general: musicians from all over gods green earth came to play there not only because it was the preeminent 'gig' at the time...but because so much of the 'general public' had missed the whole 'scene' of Woodstock and the power of the Filmore, etc. many of the greatest minds in music felt compelled to performances in so much (even on another continent) as they could to further to the social 'scene' at the time. that 'scene' was LEGENDARY

[ilcielodottobre]

meglio è....impossibile

[rebelheart1968]

this is pure ecstacy......nirvana. holy fuck

[HammondB200]

Which album should I buy if I like this stuff. Already got Bitches Brew

[middlebit]

Live at The Fillmore East, March 7 1970 (Shorter's last performance with the band). Chick is alone but just insane on that!

For some more Bartz and Jarrett I suggest you get Live/Evil or The Complete Cellar Door Sessions set(my personal fave). Michael Henderson replaces Dave Holland and John McLaughlin sits in for one show. It's about as nasty as it gets!

[lsoprimus]

Bad Ass !

[fidomusic]

I was there! The one and only time I saw Miles. Good memories. Thanks for posting.

[cielodottobre]

hi, title this song ?

thanks

[fidomusic]

Sorry don't know.

[tagomago91]

call it anything....seriously thats the title

[middlebit]

It's true that Miles named the whole performance "Call It Anything" (he'd long stopped announcing tunes from the bandstand). The band obviously plays actual tunes from his catalogue, however. This snippet, for instance, shows the band segueing from "Bitches Brew" to "It's About That Time".

[cielodottobre]

immenso !!!!

[MissFunkentelect]

Essential Miles Davis!

[gioni]

Must have for Miles-

Bitch Brew

Live/Evil

On the Corner

Dark Magus

then the rest from 1969 to 1974..

[IPLAYDRUMS1234]

dude! in a silent way?!!!?? and also, to anyone who might know, who is on drums?

[gioni]

Yes.

Jack DeJohnette that is.

.

[supahsekzy]

could be jack dejohnette.

[mitchmitchell68]

it's jack...became larger later...hahahahaha

one of them best aroun baby

[mloaks]

Live Evil is the LP y'all want.

[boiledrootbeer]

I wonder how it would feel sitting in the grass with the sun beating down on my face, a head full of LSD and Miles Davis' band playing some of the coolest shit on the planet 75 yards away. Wow, I can't begin to imagine.

[Leibo07]

@ boiledrootbeer:

It was godawesome cold, the acid was bad, they were more into barbiturates, booze and smack, there were LOTS of scuffles, there were rumours about an oncoming terrorist assault, cops' dogs bit in your privates, the Angels were constantly kicking up fuss and the audience absolutely did not dig Davis (when he left he said "Go to heaven", not to say something else). After that Davis NEVER played a rock gig anymore.

IoW 70 was a complete fiasco and they stopped after that.

[cielodottobre]

fantastic

[TheHighHardOne]

A motherfucker on that horn.I truly miss him with all of my heart and soul.The closest I get to this performance is when I play his Bitches Brew album full blast on my Pioneer stereo in my truck with 6/9 infinity speakers in the back and 5/7's in the front accompanied by a 200 watt Infinity Amplifier!Miles!Miles!Miles!Mi­les!

[Halo3sniper41306]

Yeah Miles had Hendrix over his house for some jams and they spoke about getting together but due to schedules and his sudden death it never came to be.

[desmondzavala]

This is a very good jam.

[prediliction]

did Hendrix and Miles ever coalesce so to speak? just curious because man they could have made some music together jack!!!

[jimbosity007]

In a sense yes, as Miles was present at the famed 1970 Hendrix New Years gig at the Fillmore and was impressed with the performance and sold on downsizing his group for the jack johnson sessions a few months later,even asking Buddy Miles to play.Buddy didn't show,and Miles then went to Billy Cobham.

[guitarswheelies]

yeah I read Hendrix and Miles were sitting around a bonfire and talking at the Isle of Wight festival

[Originaldemanzanillo]

Yes they did!! They did Heroin together.

[TheUKImperial]

Hendrix never did Heroin, im sure they got high on other stuff.

[VercettiVice]

acid, man. Acid.

[duerdenn]

How sad to read sniffy comments from self proclaimed Jazz purists!!!-I thought Jazz was improvised music irrespective of instrumentation

Anyhow like millions of others I am a rock music fan & find all electric era Miles the ultimate head music!!-forget Krautrock bands!!!

This clip is awesome as well-thanks for posting!!!!

[fiddlercrab3]

Your definition of what jazz is is also not correct. What about bluegrass? There's clearly improvising going on there, but most don't call that jazz.

I'd say the best bet is to avoid defining it altogether- give it the wiggle room to grow without controversy.

[yfh10mg]

Strange music!

[batalion666]

I love "Bitches Brew" this is Record Nr1 but I think thanks to all musicians except Miles,his later records are like this .Crap.

[theworldisthetrail]

ha! this is right after bitches brew, billy cobham? one of the best drummers of all time, miles plays with the best, dumbass.

[Zildjian93]

no, its Jack DeJohnette!

[theworldisthetrail]

yeah, that guy was complaining that miles only played with mediocre talent, john mclaughlin also played on bitches brew. around the corner also had a pretty sick lineup.

[wardka]

Corea looks a little terrified the brief times you see him here. There really was no safety net I guess.

I'm astounded by the way Miles Davis evolved from a cool, but clean cut, black tie guy in the late 40's to a way out extremely cool space alien in the 80's. This was somewhere in between. He never aged.

[Stardrums]

Man-are you still stuck in the early 60's? No cellphone yet? It is comments like this that are closing clubs across the world

[esbern]

hows being a fucking idiot going for you?

[niltonyukina]

eu penso absolutamente ao contrario de voce!

[fonou]

the could put this music in clubs and not that tecnoshit

i would be so happy if they played miles music in clubs... yeeee

fuching legend miles davis

[trh2130]

You could even play On The Corner in clubs and most of those people would think it was a hot dance hit

[stargate121]

Ken Burns should have included this era in his JAZZ documentary. But then, Burns would have to be cool to do that.

[kevinm4435]

keith jarrett looks positively sharp

[brianderek]

Man!

This is one of THE bands of the last century!

Keith Jarrett,Chick Corea,Jack DeJohnette,Airto Moriera,Dave Holland.

Unbelievable! I still have the vinyl for this!

That "mindless perc dude" is one of the masters of latin percussion by the way...

[random611]

Trust me, the perc guy has game.

[poppenandy]

Can you imagine being the silly alt percussion "shaker/cowbell" dude? How cool it would be to be in Miles band and be totally unskilled in anything but crazy acid freakouts.

[fonou]

and why was the percusion guy in miles davis band ? becouse he was the drug dealer of the band or something?

Can you imagine a place were dumbass can say what they want ? its youtube!

[bteiv676]

Where would it have ended...where would music be at this time? Two inventors, artists, geniuses...dicotimus (sp? you know what I mean) personalities but we can only dream of that album. Gil Evans as the arranger. Musical wet dream in our minds.

[bteiv676]

can anybody translate ARistYdes' message?

[NPjazzsaxmusic]

is that 'silent way' up-tempo at about 1 minute in?

[skinnypenguin3]

Briefly, yes.

[AmericanDiaz]

Airto Moreira, oops

[AmericanDiaz]

Airto Moriea

[bteiv676]

hey...I didn't know miles was at the isle of white...when he and jimi came back to New York they were suppose to do an album together and the arranger was going to be...? the man who did Sketches of Spain w/miles (?) Gil Evans

[AristYdes]

that would have been too much

[bteiv676]

Miles and Jimi...too much...that would have been a new arena for both of them...one could only imagine two geniuses coming together from two different genres of music...earth shattering I'd say.

[Tomcatom]

that would be fucking insane

[joeblane]

i would've given up music entirely.

that'd just be too amazing.

[Joucahainen]

katos vaan, toihan on otettu yle teemalta. Katoin ton kun se tuli.

[jamyro22]

Roughwithant: see the rest of the concert on the playlist in the right side " Call it anything part 1 - the Isle of wigh 1970".

[roughwithanr]

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeez post up the rest of the concert. I saw this video years ago. It's sick. And also it's entertaining to see the band on a lot of drugs. Anyone remember the name of the percussionist? First name starts with A, last name with M and I'm pretty embarrassed to have forgotten it.

[naturezenjoe]

aitro moreira he still plays with his wife flora purim

[goonar29]

hi, does anybody know what kind of keyboard jarrett is playing here?

[eriktheviking2006]

he usually played a farfisa organ during this period, and this looks like it is one

[Karatzioploitation]

Gheti, to anwser your question the DVD is called "A diffrent kind of blue". It is one and a half hour with an hours interviews with Chick, Herbie, Airto etc. And the last fourty minutes is the whole concert.

[tremendo67]

airto moreira on percussion.

[sophiee04]

miles was so hip, he even had an iPod before everyone else. check out the earbuds.

[jdean9]

hehe

he was ahead of his time in every way!

[1955JPJ]

i'm better

[zedek3147]

Why yes, that is Chick Corea. Never saw that before. Chick's albums sucked IMO, but he had talent as a session player on other peoples stuff.

[threeby8887]

Check out _Tones For Joan's Bones_, _The Complete Is Sessions_(my favorite Chick Corea album), _Now He Sings, Now He Sobs_, and any of the Return To Forever albums, and I think you might reassess your judgment of Corea's albums. Of course, he recorded all of these before the '80s, when a LOT of people were making substandard music.

[zedek3147]

Jack DeJohnette. If you can find albums by him out of print, you struck gold. And why do I think I see Chick Corea there? Is that a young Chick?

[NPjazzsaxmusic]

miroslav vitous never played with miles davis. th ebass player is either Dave Holland or Michael Henderson, who joined Davis in October 1970.

[maxgraff]

dave holland is the one.

[glennbarrett]

Absolutely awesome. The groove is just too damn good!!!

Can I get the full concert DVD of this?

[tzoaye]

holland at the bass!