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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Around this time,I was drinking more than I had in the past and I was snorting a lot of...

[music out] [Miles] Around this time,
I was drinking more than I had in the past and I was snorting a lot of cocaine

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[Miles] Around this time, I was drinking more than I had in the past
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and I was snorting a lot of cocaine.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
01:06:05
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.
Frances was the only woman that I had ever been jealous of. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
Frances was the only woman that I had ever been jealous of.
And being jealous and using drugs and drinking, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
And being jealous and using drugs and drinking,
He just couldn't handle me being with these people - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
He just couldn't handle me being with these people
And that's when he came to the theater and picked me up in his Ferrari and said: - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
And that's when he came to the theater and picked me up...
A woman should be with her man." - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
A woman should be with her man."
But I was in love with him and I did as he said. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
But I was in love with him and I did as he said.
He sent for his children - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
He sent for his children
What I ended up doing was performing in the kitchen. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
What I ended up doing was performing in the kitchen.
I came to New York and Frances got us enrolled in schools - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:10
I came to New York and Frances got us enrolled in schools
I didn't know how to cook or anything. I'd been on the road. I didn't know. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
I didn't know how to cook or anything. I'd been on...
He said to me: "Look, listen. Watch what I'm doing and do it." - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:11
He said to me: "Look, listen. Watch what I'm doing...
She would be downstairs cooking - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
She would be downstairs cooking
And later on, she told me: - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:11
And later on, she told me:
She always seemed to be holding in, uh, certain feelings - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:11
She always seemed to be holding in, uh, certain feelings
[Miles] My hip was operated on in April 1965, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
[Miles] My hip was operated on in April 1965,
But it didn't work and so they had to do it again that August. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
But it didn't work and so they had to do it again that ...
I was starting to drink more than I had in the past - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
I was starting to drink more than I had in the past
[Taylor Davis] It was a combination of jealousy, cocaine... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[Taylor Davis] It was a combination of jealousy, cocaine...
Percodan, Scotch and milk, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
Percodan, Scotch and milk,
This combination causes you to snap... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
This combination causes you to snap...