10 Things That Made Miles Davis, Miles Davis 

He’s the epitome of virtuoso, not cause he played like an acrobat, but cause he played the right notes at the right time. Impeccable taste, above all.

Humming along with every single one of these lines, this album is stamped on my brain.

Great observations. I like how you approach this not from what notes etc but from the sound of the phrases

When I first heard Kind of Blue as a teenager I didn't really get it. It was only after listening to more jazz that it began to make sense and I started to see the beauty in it. A lot of other complex music has been the same for me. Many other people I've talked to don't experience this, they just adore something straight away. Thanks for yet another lovely video Aimee, you're the best :)

Aimee, I've always respected & admired you. 'Kind of Blue' began my Jazz odyssey in 2016. To hear you as a pianist speak with such reverence about Miles when you could have spoken volumes about the brilliance of Bill Evans... You get it. And you feel the way I do each time I listen to this album & my love for the genre is rekindled. Thank you Aimee, I appreciate you greatly.

There was only one Miles. My musical hero. I saw him only once in 1982. Thank you for this musical analysis from this seminal album. And thank you for your great channel.🙏🎺☀️🙏

Kind of Blue was pretty much the first jazz album I owned. It was supposedly the biggest selling jazz album of all time. But at first I didn't quite 'get it' . Then on a long drive I put it on in the car and realised I was becoming lost in the music. It always seems fresh, definitely one of the albums I would not be without.

One of my core heroes in music even though I’m a drummer. I often say if I could ever play my drums like Miles played his trumpet, I would die happy. Thx for pointing out his genius.

I once counted how many timed Miles played a "D" note in his So What solo, I think it's 39 times out of 217 total notes, or just under one out of every five notes is a D.

Thankyou for articulating exactly what I feel about Miles. I first heard Miles when I was 17. I’m in my late 50’s now and have played Trumpet for 40 years. There’s hardly a day in those 40 years when I haven’t listened, played, transcribed or thought about Miles music. Simply the greatest jazz musician ever.

Amazing tribute and lesson! Thank you Aimee.

Great video, Aimee!

It’s very nice to hear and appreciate the depth of MD’s music, thanks Aimee.

Really great analysis, and definitely gave me some ideas for mimicking one of my all-time favorites on my solos!

This one completes beautifully the ideas on your ‘Soloing on So What’ video. Thanks Aimee!!!

Thank you Aimee for that sum up of Miles' style. Kind of blue was the album which truly launched me into jazz. My dream is to play on a trumpet similarly to him, but put also my heart into it. Thank you so much ;)

I requested this video some months ago in insta!!! Thanks a lot for this!

Great informative video Aimee! I remember buying Kind Of Blue in 1959 when i was fifteen years old...it changed my life!..was lucky enough to see him four times at different points in his career. A true master.

thanks for this!

Indeed. Ever since watching the Birth of the Cool documentary on Netflix I’ve been experiencing the magic of Miles. That scene with him playing for the recording of the sound track to Ascenseur pour l'échafaud in Paris was so memorable and the resulting album I’ve listened to numerous times since - so good.

Beautiful video. Aw yeahh, I love how Miles leaves space, gives it that touch of cool. You know, Miles Davis had me really calm and cool after an accident a few months ago. I got hit really hard by a car from behind while riding my bicycle on the bike lane. Had a couple closed fractures. After I got hit, I refused to take the ambulance to the ER, but my dad took me instead. So on the way there, Freddie Freeloader came on the radio, and Miles really help me just stay so calm and cool. Nothing stopped me from turning up the volume. Then when I got back home, I was so happy and with one hand I put Kind Of Blue on the platter and let it spin. I also have a personal faith in Jesus, just my belief and I believe he did a miracle for me that day. But deep inside, Chick Corea is my melody. Before I met Chick Corea, I told my family on a road trip, "one day, I'm going to meet Chick Corea and tell him about God." Years later, I had no idea I would actually meet him. It happened by surprise in the parking lot. He reached his hand out to me, the hand that played along to those heart piercing notes from Miles. I never told him about God lol, but I deep inside, I feel like I did without saying anything. I miss Chick Corea so much. But Miles, Miles taught me attitude and Chick told me, "Just play what you love" ❤️

Thank you my dear! You verbalized just about everything that i love about Miles but could never put into words. Beautiful!🌹🌹

Why your channel doesn't have 1M subs ? Godddd you are an amazing person and teacher. HUGE THANKS FOR MAKING ALL THESE VIDEOS.

Just did my first gig conducting a community theatre musical and the trumpet player donated me a trumpet, while normally a pianist, I've been spending the last month learning trumpet and trying to play Miles Davis stuff ;) Not quite there but loving the journey.... Been working on the So What solos, starting to get the notes but that tone ... :) a long way off

Thank you!! Very cool tricks, that I maybe could use in my solos one day! :)

Class video... Thanks Amy... 🙂

I came to Kind of Blue quite late, and it was weird, but I felt like I already knew the album even though I'd never knowingly listened to it before. I probably heard bits at parties, film sound tracks, on the radio over many years, until nothing on it was new to me. Of course it's great music - it's also always new each time.

Great observations!, He always hits the right spot. Signature tones from this musical genius.

Thank you!

Love this video - Miles has always been one of my very favorites (well, since I first heard his music in 1979). My favorite Harmon mute example is “Circle” from Miles Smiles - so intimate and fragile, so simple yet complex. And not sure about the effect on cats - Anthony Braxton solo alto albums were always a sure way to get my cats to fear for their lives! Haha - thanks for sharing these insights!

When I was starting to learn how to really get that jazz sound, I tried to emulate Miles' sound on So What, Milestones, and Generique...it was the best thing I did to really get that great jazz sound. 🎺

This man's playing is virtuosity at its essence. You could take ANY legendary rock musician and because they play an electrified instrument it can NEVER compare in greatness to the PURITY of an acoustic instrument like a horn, a sax, a string bass or an acoustic piano (the typical instruments of jazz). Miles and his contemporaries created with these instruments and defined their use.

I named my first son after Miles Davis, if that tells you how important he is to me.

yes, yes and yes

Great analysis! My favorite musician. In A Silent Way is my favorite album.

One of my greatest pleasures is taking a long hot bath late at night, wrap up in a large towel, lay in bed in the dark and listen to Kind of Blue. Everyone should try this at least once in their life!

I am a trumpet player and Kind of Blue was the pivotal album that helped me to understand jazz.

I think I called like 95% of each example you were gonna give!

Ooooooh yes! I can feel it.

yesss!!

Hey we had a conversation about these kinds of videos a few years ago. Like What was so special about each jazz artist? What made them them? Thank you so much for this. I love this so much. One on chick corea would be amazing. But thank you 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 These are the most important kinds Of videos

All the people who'd probably benefit from this won't get to see it 😊 👍 I'm an exception in the sense you've reasserted the incredible Miles Davis to my ears. I saw him 4 times as well! Best wishes from Essex

Hola Aimee!!! tu nombre your name is like my just Jaime! VERY TALENTED love your videos!!! great MIND!

Tenor man here Aimee 14 months. I was never impressed with today's players going 100 Mph. Where's the space in their solos like MILES and MONK used in their phrases? When you're saying something, you don't have to talk so dang fast.

To me Miles’ music describes the home I’ve never been to. The world as it would be if it were perfect.

I'm a jazz ignoramus, but I love the whole of Tutu and Amandla to pieces.

Hi there, #Aimee_Nolte_Music. Pleasure to see 'u and to listen 'u again! :D Cheers from Mexico !.

I love that Stella by Starlight version because it’s kind of different from the other tracks from Kind of Blue and knowing that it was played by that iconic personnel it’s just crazy

Great list. I would have added his use of the b5, like going down from root, b5 and 4, which he does often.

I like your videos

Miles and Bill Evans feel like home to me!

Being a Millennial guitar-shred-baby, I learned modes back in 2004; before I'd ever heard the magic of Miles.Then, in 2007, I finally heard Coltrane, Evans, and Davis with this album and understood. Phenomenal stuff.

The sadly missed Penguin Guide (original format) remarks on his 'knifefighter's reserve'. Yes.

Agreed I'll answer with "So What" Miles is entitled to his opinions like everyone else.

Fantastic!Can you make one study of Chet Baker?

I remember him saying how many artists fall back behind the beat, but he liked to be a little ahead of it.

“Tiny divisions but huge decisions “

solo has to have continuity,,,and a great part of that is to take the melody and break it down into tiny motifs...and to maintain through the free expression a continuance that can be melted down and then rehashed without losing thematic contact to the theme.,,,,,,frank zappa is a good example.

I love this list of his idiomatic ticks. I think one was missed. He often cracked notes intentionally. Especially when playing thru a mute.

And Miles Davis could actually really blow on complicated changes, so it’s 100% a choice to simplify when he does it. You won’t hear that type blowing over changes on Kind of Blue because the it would have contradicted the vibe Davis was going for (and frankly he nails that vibe). You have to find his 60s and 70s albums and his work with Bird and ESPECIALLY his live albums and live performances uploaded to RU-vid. Miles always put an emphasis on impressing his live audiences.

Do you like Hendrix? His live improvs are incredible. Its perhaps not considered serious music because of the fuzz and psychedelics.

Miles Davis is!!!!!.................

Modalism - its a good thing.❤

you picked a dress in the same color as your eye! awesome!! hahahaha

You look great Aimee! Dressed up) Are you going to a party or something?

#11 what really made Mile Davis... Mile Daves were his parents.

You have that great microphone yet the audio doesn’t pop at all in this voice over

Kind of Blue has one big problem: WTF do you put on after it?

"...the rest of your life."👍

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When you claim he did not play with vibrato in the short clips, ALL of them have vibrato 🍀please train your ears 🫣😊

It's 5 icons led by a genius playing together to make magic .

I like how you turn mistake while improvising into an unmistakable character that makes Miles, Miles...fall off a note like a human voice? Lol...

Miles best period was from 1945 to 1991, period.

My wife says his music is depressive. I like his music a lot, but not everything. Generique from l’ascenseur pour l”echafaud, circle in the round, shh.peaceful, Ife, on the corner (the 4 parts),two faced are the things I’d take on a lonely island. I like these pieces, but she’s right, it’s depressing. He surely is no James Brown. Ps: few notes and long ones are no problems, if you play fast you’re always on the verge to sound like études. You know….. too many notes.

What’s upper from Las Vegas. RU-vid/DJ undadirt. and. RU-vid/F a Mask 😷

It's Black.

'Can't imagine this world without Miles Davis' brazen voice being a part of it. That sound. If you suddenly removed, say, 440 A from all birdsong and tractor traffic, wind chimes, whale song, and waterfalls, the world would be incomprehensible. Remove that plaintive Harmon muted voice and the world be out of kilter, not in balance for me.

It would be the greatest album…if Miles played piano 🤣. No, I’m only joking.

Forgive me, once again... Miles Davis was a very abusive person. He may have been a great musician but that can no longer stand in the wake of his abuse. On RU-vid right now one of his wives, Frances Davis, has a documentary on her life and the abuse physical and emotional to the point of being terrified and not knowing if he's going to make love to you or kill you... I don't care how good somebody can play a trumpet, I play the trumpet as well... And I rather be a person that's an upstanding citizen and respected by everyone in my community and loved by all then some Lowdown rat bastard that if he had done that to my sister would have a bullet in his head