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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

You'd run into him somewhere,didn't even know it was Miles

You'd run into him somewhere,
didn't even know it was Miles

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You'd run into him somewhere, didn't even know it was Miles.
Duration
5 seconds
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25
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:10
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.
That looked like... made him look like he was homeless. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
That looked like... made him look like he was homeless.
And it just doesn't work that way. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
And it just doesn't work that way.
[music continues] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:10
[music continues]
But I... I don't want to talk about it. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
But I... I don't want to talk about it.
[Miles] I went out to my father's farm in Millstadt. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
[Miles] I went out to my father's farm in Millstadt.
If someone could've guaranteed that I would die in two seconds, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
If someone could've guaranteed that I would die in two ...
I felt better, good, pure. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:04
I felt better, good, pure.
This young white guy had started a new jazz label called Prestige - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
This young white guy had started a new jazz label called Pre...
[music: "Paraphernalia"] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[music: "Paraphernalia"]
[newscaster 3] This afternoon, Disneyland, the world's most fabulous kingdom... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
[newscaster 3] This afternoon, Disneyland, the world's ...
[Wein] I was in a club in New York and Miles is at the back of the club. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
[Wein] I was in a club in New York and Miles is at the back ...
He said: "Are you going to have a jazz festival up at Newport?" - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:20
He said: "Are you going to have a jazz festival up at N...
Listening in the audience were executives from Columbia Records. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
Listening in the audience were executives from Columbia Reco...
Columbia Records was the Tiffany of labels at the time. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
Columbia Records was the Tiffany of labels at the time.
So, if he had that opportunity, as he had at Newport, - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
So, if he had that opportunity, as he had at Newport,
Miles put the bell of his horn right into the microphone... - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:06
Miles put the bell of his horn right into the microphone...
And changed the whole world of jazz right there - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:12
And changed the whole world of jazz right there
Made bebop a music that could be accepted by everybody. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
Made bebop a music that could be accepted by everybody.
They could now put on Miles's music while they were making love. - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:05
They could now put on Miles's music while they were mak...
[music fades to cheering] - Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 00:09
[music fades to cheering]