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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

"Look, I can get you dates playing with musical artistsof a different generation, playing...

I said: "Look, I can get you dates playing with musical artists
of a different generation, playing a different kind of music

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I said: "Look, I can get you dates
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playing with musical artists of a different generation,
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playing a different kind of music.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
01:21:32
Uploaded
Jun 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
N/A

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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.
I just know that if you play those dates, something will happen." - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
I just know that if you play those dates, something will hap...
[Miles] Around this time, I had met a beautiful young singer - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
[Miles] Around this time, I had met a beautiful young singer
She was full of new things and surprises and helped point the way I was to go. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
She was full of new things and surprises and helped point th...
Betty Davis was just a very fierce, dynamic sister - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:10
Betty Davis was just a very fierce, dynamic sister
She totally changes his sense of what's happening in music. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
She totally changes his sense of what's happening in mu...
[Miles] Betty was a big influence - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Miles] Betty was a big influence
I went by his house, he had a bunch of funny-looking suits, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
I went by his house, he had a bunch of funny-looking suits,
I said: "What's going on, man?" - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
I said: "What's going on, man?"
[Miles] I wanted to change course, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
[Miles] I wanted to change course,
My interest was in an electronic bass player. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
My interest was in an electronic bass player.
It gave me what I wanted to hear instead of the stand-up bass. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
It gave me what I wanted to hear instead of the stand-up bas...
[Carter] He called me and said: "I want to talk to you." I said okay. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
[Carter] He called me and said: "I want to talk to you....
He said: "All you got to do is play like you're playing upright." - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
He said: "All you got to do is play like you're pl...
To join you? No, man, I'm not going to do that." - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
To join you? No, man, I'm not going to do that."
[Miles] The group broke up when Ron decided to leave for good, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Miles] The group broke up when Ron decided to leave for goo...
Now, I was starting to think about other ways - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
Now, I was starting to think about other ways
I went into the studio in August of 1969. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
I went into the studio in August of 1969.
[White] Miles had said to be at Columbia Studios at ten o'clock. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[White] Miles had said to be at Columbia Studios at ten o�...
I was there at 9:30. The cleaning lady let me in. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
I was there at 9:30. The cleaning lady let me in.
[Miles] I brought in these musical sketches that nobody had seen, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
[Miles] I brought in these musical sketches that nobody had ...