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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

The greatest feeling I ever hadin my life, with my clothes on, was when I first met Diz...

[music continues] [Miles] The greatest feeling I ever had
in my life, with my clothes on, was when I first met Diz and Bird

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[Miles] The greatest feeling I ever had in my life, with my clothes on,
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was when I first met Diz and Bird.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:33
Uploaded
Jun 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
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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 decided right then and there I had to be in New York, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
I decided right then and there I had to be in New York,
Walter Cronkite reporting. War years always bring on new fads and tastes - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:11
Walter Cronkite reporting. War years always bring on new fad...
This strange music has been accused of everything, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
This strange music has been accused of everything,
[music: "Donna Lee" by Charlie Parker] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:11
[music: "Donna Lee" by Charlie Parker]
[Miles] I had never heard no shit like they was playing on 52nd Street. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[Miles] I had never heard no shit like they was playing on 5...
Each little place had a speaker outside - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
Each little place had a speaker outside
You could stand outside and hear the music until a doorman... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
You could stand outside and hear the music until a doorman.....
The clubs had doormen, they would chase you away. [chuckles] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
The clubs had doormen, they would chase you away. [chuckles]
Miles enrolled at Juilliard 'cause he wanted to learn music - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:10
Miles enrolled at Juilliard 'cause he wanted to learn m...
[Griffin] He is serious about Juilliard. He's seriously committed to it - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
[Griffin] He is serious about Juilliard. He's seriously...
[Miles] A lot of the old guys thought that if you went to school, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Miles] A lot of the old guys thought that if you went to sc...
If you learned something from theory, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
If you learned something from theory,
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 ...