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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

You know, it's like somethinggetting ready to happen

You know, it's like something
getting ready to happen

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You know, it's like something getting ready to happen.
Duration
4 seconds
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22
Timestamp in Movie
01:26:08
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.
[sings melody] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[sings melody]
Moving like an amoeba that just moved along... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
Moving like an amoeba that just moved along...
And it did like this and then, like, you know, something would stick out. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
And it did like this and then, like, you know, something wou...
But, like, it was like this whole thing just moved like this, together. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
But, like, it was like this whole thing just moved like this...
I had the jazz station on and the guy was like: - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
I had the jazz station on and the guy was like:
I was like: "Man, can you even say that on the air?" - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:07
I was like: "Man, can you even say that on the air?&quo...
[Miles] Bitches Brew sold faster than any other album I had ever done, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
[Miles] Bitches Brew sold faster than any other album I had ...
After he did Bitches Brew, he started at the Fillmore East and all of that stuff. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
After he did Bitches Brew, he started at the Fillmore East a...
We're in the dressing room and Miles got the check. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
We're in the dressing room and Miles got the check.
He's looking at it and we heard him say: "I feel like a thief." - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
He's looking at it and we heard him say: "I feel l...
[Mtume] It was an Indian restaurant on 125th Street. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
[Mtume] It was an Indian restaurant on 125th Street.
And we're sitting there, we're eating and we're talking for about two hours. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
And we're sitting there, we're eating and we'...
He says: "So, what do you think?" - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:10
He says: "So, what do you think?"
He said: "What do you think about the music?" - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
He said: "What do you think about the music?"
And Miles, he said: "That's where we're going on the new album, On the Corner." - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:13
And Miles, he said: "That's where we're going...
[Tate] They were just taking off. They were making the Big Bang, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:14
[Tate] They were just taking off. They were making the Big B...
That's when we really locked in to Miles - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:08
That's when we really locked in to Miles
People who smoke weed and they go there high - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
People who smoke weed and they go there high
[Troupe] Miles's audience was changing because his music was changing... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
[Troupe] Miles's audience was changing because his musi...
What was happening now. Not ten years ago... now. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
What was happening now. Not ten years ago... now.