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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

If you learned something from theory, you would losethe feeling in your playing

If you learned something from theory, you would lose
the feeling in your playing

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If you learned something from theory,
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you would lose the feeling in your playing.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:45
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.
I would go to the library and borrow scores - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
I would go to the library and borrow scores
[Heath] So, he was to go at Juilliard in the daytime - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
[Heath] So, he was to go at Juilliard in the daytime
[Miles] I spent my first week in New York looking for Bird and Dizzy. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[Miles] I spent my first week in New York looking for Bird a...
Then, one night, I heard this voice from behind me say: - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:11
Then, one night, I heard this voice from behind me say:
You can compare bebop to the Manhattan Project. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
You can compare bebop to the Manhattan Project.
And it was developed by some serious sound physicists... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
And it was developed by some serious sound physicists...
Blowing their brains out to push this music as far as they could. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
Blowing their brains out to push this music as far as they c...
So, Miles stepped into kind of a hotbed of musical research and development. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
So, Miles stepped into kind of a hotbed of musical research ...
It was a music by black musicians, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
It was a music by black musicians,
[Jones] No smiling and laughing and grinning and dancing and shit. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[Jones] No smiling and laughing and grinning and dancing and...
[Tate] Miles saw these very elegantly-dressed characters. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Tate] Miles saw these very elegantly-dressed characters.
The dignity that came with that and the nobility that came with that - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
The dignity that came with that and the nobility that came w...
Very soon after Miles starts his Juilliard studies... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
Very soon after Miles starts his Juilliard studies...
Irene arrives, his high school sweetheart, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
Irene arrives, his high school sweetheart,
[Miles] All of a sudden, there she was, knocking on my motherfucking door. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Miles] All of a sudden, there she was, knocking on my mothe...
[Griffin] I mean, it seems almost impossible, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Griffin] I mean, it seems almost impossible,
There's the domestic situation with children. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
There's the domestic situation with children.
There's the kind of time required of anyone - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:10
There's the kind of time required of anyone
Everything, power. Everything, humor. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
Everything, power. Everything, humor.
[Shorter] One day, the teacher said: - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:22
[Shorter] One day, the teacher said: