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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

And without saying one word,he just started to play

And without saying one word,
he just started to play

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And without saying one word, he just started to play.
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:36:28
Uploaded
Jun 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
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Movie Summary

Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, innovator. This documentary feature explores archival photos and home movies shot by Miles and his colleagues, his manuscripts and Miles' original paintings, to explore the man behind the music.
[plays piano solo] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
[plays piano solo]
[music: "Tune Up"] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
[music: "Tune Up"]
I always asked myself the question of if we had said: - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:13
I always asked myself the question of if we had said:
And he said: "All right." And then he... That's all. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
And he said: "All right." And then he... That'...
Without your voice, I'd be lost in a land of silence. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
Without your voice, I'd be lost in a land of silence.
[Bessieres] Miles happened to be in Paris at the time when - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Bessieres] Miles happened to be in Paris at the time when
Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud, Elevator To The Gallows. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud, Elevator To The Gallows.
Malle was very young and was at the beginning of his career. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
Malle was very young and was at the beginning of his career.
He wanted also to make different cinema - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:12
He wanted also to make different cinema
[music: "Chez Le Photographe Du Motel"] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:10
[music: "Chez Le Photographe Du Motel"]
Before, a musician, for a film, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
Before, a musician, for a film,
30 person to come - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:20
30 person to come
He played the entire music directly along to the screening of the movie. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
He played the entire music directly along to the screening o...
Just improvising and creating the sound in reaction to the images of the film. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
Just improvising and creating the sound in reaction to the i...
Looking at the image at the same moment as we were playing - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
Looking at the image at the same moment as we were playing
Very fast we realized that it was something... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
Very fast we realized that it was something...
A lot of people, they heard the record first - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
A lot of people, they heard the record first
[applause] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:11
[applause]
That's something he would develop in the next following years. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
That's something he would develop in the next following...
So, something started in the recording studio - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
So, something started in the recording studio