It really sucks when you can't hear yourself, but you know from experience that from the audience perspective, everybody else can hear you... but all you hear is a loud band mush. For keyboard playing, I could learn to bring a wedge, but for a trumpet player, I guess you'd have to use the nearest wall as your wedge. I hadn't thought about that.
There was nothing to be diplomatic about here though, I believe what he says, and I think it also has to do with him hearing everybody else even though he didn't quite say that. He wasn't a 'diplomacy' guy.
He's absolutely correct, there are "dead spots," on a stage even when using professional equipment. Although Brass and Woodwind instruments might be miced, a player might walk around until he finds the right spot, or they might be stationary depending upon their ability to hear the whole band. He began turning his back to the audience with Tony Williams. In both his first and second "Great Group," Miles had two dynamic drummers. I saw him with Tony Williams, Jack De Johnette, Al Foster, and Vince Wilburn, those guys would be playing hard, sweating. Miles would direct his drummer nodding for accents, cymbal crashes, which in turn would alert the band how many bars until the finish, or chord change leading into another song. There was a method to his madness.
Except his sound got directed to the band and not the audience. It's breaking an implied agreement that he gets payed by customers yet doesn't deliver.
@@josku5 Because they weren't the purist jazz aficionados who actually appreciated the skill of what he was doing, they were the more rock crowd audiences who were essentially clueless.
I've found good listening skills are all a musician needs to succeed. Theory and reading and everything is useful and will help but listening is the meat and potatoes
I met Mr. Miles. In NY by Centeal park west. He had on a beige rain coat. We were coming from Vi Higgensons home singing. He was extremely cool-and friendly.
@@williemakeit2346 yeah, people have source of (almost) unlimited knowledge in their pocket and still doesn't know how to use it... it's something like asking "who is this guy?" in the comments seeing hashtag and big blue letters.
In the 70s....Miles didn't have as much american television time, as He did even in the 60s! He toured a lot overseas. To SEE HIM ON VIDEO...IS SO POWERFUL!!!!! I WISH Blacks in the 70s had SEEN Him!
@@callmemonkh9020 Was the black community from that time period into his music like that or was it mainly white ppl I have family that loves his music but I heard ppl saying that mainly white ppl was into Miles
I personally never understood people that go to hear a musician and then complain about things like this. A musician is gonna give you music. If you want a show go see a pop star.
Disagree I think the young man was polite and asked a honest question, Plus you can tell he is awestruck for the artist. So no I don't feel it's wrong to inquire, that's how you know and learn, Now if he had been disrespectful it would have been a whole different conversation.
great example of perspective.what you hear and see is different the what the other person hears and sees.host percieved it was some antic.when it isnt.remember this when argueing with others.this is life changing info.
My wife saw Miles at the North Sea Jazz Fest in Rotterdam and thought it wrong that Miles played with his back turned toward the audience. Then I see this video 40 years later and the mystery is solved.
I saw him m at the Apollo when I was a child and he played his whole set with his back to the audience. He spoke to us and thanks us at the end that was the only time we saw his face.
Does a classical orchestra or choral group conductor face his audience when conducting? Hell no! It's all about the leader maintaining constant communication with his musicians. World class jazz musicians are constantly reading each other's body and sound language as they perform to remain cohesive. And there are frequent real-time sound imbalances, even instrument malfunctions, something that only the leader can address and fix. This would never be questioned in the classical realm. Tongue-in-cheek: If the audience really wants to experience abandonment by the artists they paid good $$$ to hear, the best way is to get that is exactly this - the leader ignores his band, totally plays to the audience, and ignores whatever potential chaos could ensue from having a disengaged front man. I think this was something the media noticed in Miles and for whatever reason, decided to make it an issue.
Great point man. That whole nonsense came about because white audiences felt he was ‘disrespecting’ them. Not all black performers have to be all dancing and showing their teeth! Anyway, he has given his answer, so that’s that!
Miles "I invented Cool" Davis ..... I cant see how anyone serious about learning music and wanting to progress wouldn't learn a lot by checking out Miles' stuff and listen to not only his sound and skills, but his timeless words of wisdom. Respect, RiP 🙏🏼🆒 🎺
You named your son 'The Man with the Horn'? ;-0) Obvs kidding. But agreed, I love Miles too. And Coltrane. And Hendrix. Been playing trumpet decades thanks to Miles, and bought a sax two days ago due to Coltrane!
Once I won first-row seats to a Miles Davis concert. Unexpectedly, he played the whole set facing us. Perhaps it worked for him that way on that particular stage :) It was unforgettable.
😮✨️OOOHHH SHHHHHT Miles was dropping science and that's a DOPE answer he really don't turn his back because if he really did while performing turning his back would be to walk the fk off tge stage so he's performing yet he does face the crowd here n there so now you can see how he turns major for te top quality sound n probly a great sound not knowing now only if you compare its hard to do that because who else was playing horn n sound like he sound.
Miles Davis interpretation of this song I remember April it’s so haunting and so soulful if you can hear and listen to him playing that song and don’t consider him the greatest trap dear you don’t know what’s going on that’s❤
this isnt diplomacy, this isnt tension, this is an honest response, a good musician is trying to gauge the where the best sound is and gift that to their audience. personally ive found that when my mind is not really "listening", ie, when my thoughts are not on the music, it's because of my eyes. your eyes are working overtime and theyre distracting. i close my eyes when this happens, and my ears kick into overdrive. i highly recommend it.
The best of all jazz artists to me. Miles was on a whole different level, shaped by his Jim Crow era experiences, he channeled all that anger, confusion, and sorrow into that trumpet.
… the Genius that was Miles Davis ❤️🔥🖤❤️🔥….. I saw him turn his back on an all Caucasian audience in a time when segregation was high and when I saw him turn his back it was said along the lines of these folks got Us coming thru the back door to hear Us play so they can look at my back while I play….💥 I Thoth that was badass and I co-signed on it ⚡️ didn’t know it was most of his shows 🙏🏾 bless the Ancestors🖤
Its whole field of study acoustic design, most people don't realise that before PA system and sound speakers, public venues were designed to amplify sound and that when PA system were introduced it created what Miles is talking about
Great artist are always complex humans, I never understood why some questioned what Miles did on stage, it makes no difference. I went to a couples of his concerts..one of them was at a small dinner club, my table was in the front and he never looked at the audience, only held up cue cards with his band mates names on them when they soloed, I went there to hear the man’s music and that was more than enough…besides if you were a true fan you would know about the complexities that made Miles Davis 🙏🏾🕊️
For years, Carlos Santana had his back to audiences. Also, Franz Liszt was one of the first classical musicians to make a point of facing his audiences - he enjoyed watching their responses.
As a Musician since" 1967 "I can actually say he is right. Many times on songs a certain instrument has the groove and dominate the orchestration and give flavor to the whole song/tune.
If people pay to HEAR him play it shouldn't matter what direction he's facing. If he needs to turn around to focus they should be fine with that. Should he be forced to move his hips too? Respect the musician.
Makes sense. Your sound isnt bouncing back from the audience. Acoustic instruments have to be heard and felt by the player or theres no bearings on what their doing or how to nuance something you cant hear but everyone else can. The audience is getting a more balanced version of the audio than the players are. Based on proximity. But also like he says some instruments just dont sound good in some spots or just not alive. Guitar sounds huge in a room with no furniture in it. But drums in a room or corner with no padding sounds like loud muddy clanking with echo and bleed over. Lol. Theres no tightness. Tight instruments need an almost unnoticeable amount of reverb and loose instruments need deadening. If that makes sense. And which way youre pointing the hole that makes the sound go bang can mean all the difference. Also as an electric guitarist i can 100% tell you the second you add electronics and signals just what direction you move can make something squeal or squeak or buzz or ring or have vibrato including distance and position from the amplifiers. Youre essentially putting a bunch of magnets and antennas all over a bunch of stuff that carries its notes through the air which is also what carries radio signal and youre banging them all around lol even completely wired, no wireless, everything gives off output signals. Cell phones and wifi are the worst and can completely ruin recordings with a repetitive chirping that happens which sometimes you can only hear after you recorded a whole session on playback. Which im sure is each wave pulse hitting the mic. In the tempo of which the waves are entering or exiting. Which you know is also 100% hitting your brain and ears 24/7 at all times But thats a whole other subject.📡☢📡☢ Just because you dont NOTICE it. Doesn't mean its not HAPPENING.
My uncle/aunt went to see miles and he kept his back to the audience while dressed like the tin man from the wizard of oz.They said he didn't sound the same🤓🌍👂🐝🔜💣🔚
Remember little kid maybe 10 years old and he was doing a concert on PBS PBS outdoor place I don’t know where it was but I actually watched at least 90% of the show I think that’s only because I tuned in late
I remember being a kid in the late 80s and watching one of Miles televised performances, and my Mother saying "he's still turning his back on the audience" and me just thinking that it was the most bad assed thing I'd ever seen a peformer do. 20 years later reading his autobio, he was like "I did that so the Band could hear me" 😂
it's a valid explanation except for one thing. I'm thinking to when I saw him play live. At no point before, during, or after the concert did he ever look at or acknowledge the audience in any way at all. It was as if we weren't even there. So it had nothing to do with just finding the spot where the trumpet sounded best to him. It had to do with him thinking he was better than the people who paid to see him play.
As a musician, how you hear yourself as you play has a lot to do with how you sound to your audience. To a musician, the music is your focus. The audience is secondary although we appreciate their presence and attendance. Also many musicians are introverts. My brother used to look away from the audience. He was more comfortable that way.
He wants to produce the best music possible for the consumer... Usually they that includes trying to duplicate the live sound to equal the recordings that they're use to hearing. I'm a drummer and I understand exactly what he's trying to explain*😎*
If you think about it, everybody on stage "having to" face forward is a little weird, especially if it's highly interactive instrumental music. You can bet they practice in a circle, looking at each other. Just be glad to see them making the music and, y'know...listen.
Standing before ur audience, yes celebrity worship at the highest level while the celebrity doesn’t even understand ur worship of him but just the music bc that’s what it’s all about, how the music moves u and makes u feel, not how the celebrity makes u feel or move. 75% of artist don’t even write their own songs and if they do a lot of times it’s switched or refined by the record industry anyway to suit their interests or taste
No Disney Villian has ever had style and presence like Miles Davis. Davis and Disney merely share a universe like so many strangers do, Saturn and Jupiter exist in the same universe too, and we humans exist with the Sun but to say one is the like the other - impossible.
He didn't turn his back on the audience, he turned to face and hear his fellow musicians.
precisely
Ppl who dont know music just don't have a clue thats all.
@@NatureHeadSupremethanks genius.
His trumpet was directed towards the band.
It really sucks when you can't hear yourself, but you know from experience that from the audience perspective, everybody else can hear you... but all you hear is a loud band mush. For keyboard playing, I could learn to bring a wedge, but for a trumpet player, I guess you'd have to use the nearest wall as your wedge. I hadn't thought about that.
Miles became very diplomatic even when you can tell he didn’t want to 😂
Listen to him describe Wynton Marsalis’ trumpet playing.
He also could hardly breathe
There was nothing to be diplomatic about here though, I believe what he says, and I think it also has to do with him hearing everybody else even though he didn't quite say that. He wasn't a 'diplomacy' guy.
Miles sense of style was second to none
I mean the guy did admit to being a real life pimp for while and then played one on Miami vice so lmao
Manifestation of Cool.🎉❤🎉
🤓☝@@Spritofjazz
If you like that kind of thing.
Have you seen him in the 80s?
He's absolutely correct, there are "dead spots," on a stage even when using professional equipment. Although Brass and Woodwind instruments might be miced, a player might walk around until he finds the right spot, or they might be stationary depending upon their ability to hear the whole band.
He began turning his back to the audience with Tony Williams. In both his first and second "Great Group," Miles had two dynamic drummers. I saw him with Tony Williams, Jack De Johnette, Al Foster, and Vince Wilburn, those guys would be playing hard, sweating. Miles would direct his drummer nodding for accents, cymbal crashes, which in turn would alert the band how many bars until the finish, or chord change leading into another song. There was a method to his madness.
Yes it all has to do with where the sound waves converge.
He didn't play for us, he played for himself and we were lucky just to experience it and be allowed to watch and listen
Musicians do play for themselves,but when they make their living from playing, it's a good idea to acknowledge the audience who you work for.
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@@michaelroach4219
that’s called pandering. the fan dictates nothing.
The fan dictates alot because you play for the applause so you def need the fan
@@YouMustbeJoking852 It's not pandering.It's remembering who pays your salary.
Hearing the music mix on stage is always a constant challenge for every musician
You betcha!
Think that’s why people are switching to in-ears
it really is 😮💨
Except his sound got directed to the band and not the audience. It's breaking an implied agreement that he gets payed by customers yet doesn't deliver.
... especially when the venue gets larger..
Great question… bravo for asking a question not many people would ask
Miles had such a disdain for his audience at this point, he couldn't stand to look at them. Of course, that answer was not good PR
@@FreeBrunoPowroznikwhy would he not like his audiences?
@@josku5 Because they weren't the purist jazz aficionados who actually appreciated the skill of what he was doing, they were the more rock crowd audiences who were essentially clueless.
@@FreeBrunoPowroznikLAME
@FreeBrunoPowroznik YOU are lost..Have YOU ever.. MET Mr Davis 🤔.. Had dinner with him. Since you know him so well
Musicians are persistent, comprehensive, and thorough about LISTENING to a degree that non-Musicians couldn't possibly fathom.
Then I'll buy the CD.
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I've found good listening skills are all a musician needs to succeed. Theory and reading and everything is useful and will help but listening is the meat and potatoes
@@elkandweirddreamsexactly, it's how you learned to speak before you could read and write
@@elkandweirddreamsyou are extremely correct. The ear is king definitely
Miles was the Ultimate Stylist! From his playing to the way he Dressed. He was so unique n answered that question in perfect Style!
Miles Davis. The goat. I recommend his autobiography.
YESSS I read it. It's an amazing read. I always laughed when he spoke of his ex wife the late great Cicely Tyson. ❤❤❤
I met Mr. Miles. In NY by Centeal park west. He had on a beige rain coat. We were coming from Vi Higgensons home singing. He was extremely cool-and friendly.
❤❤❤❤Loved him. R.I.P. Sir Miles.
Reading it currently, it's full of cool jazz stories, loving it!
@@billionairecat5414didn't know Cicely Tyson was his ex-wife😮
I wish there were more videos of Miles Davis. He died before the internet and was mostly a live performer.
There are tons of Miles Davis videos on RUclips, stop wishing and hit search.
@@williemakeit2346 yeah, people have source of (almost) unlimited knowledge in their pocket and still doesn't know how to use it... it's something like asking "who is this guy?" in the comments seeing hashtag and big blue letters.
In the 70s....Miles didn't have as much american television time, as He did even in the 60s! He toured a lot overseas. To SEE HIM ON VIDEO...IS SO POWERFUL!!!!!
I WISH Blacks in the 70s had SEEN Him!
I got to watch, thanks to RUclips, a performance back in the 60s. It was just so so so good. If there was no internet I wouldn't have heard him.
@@callmemonkh9020 Was the black community from that time period into his music like that or was it mainly white ppl I have family that loves his music but I heard ppl saying that mainly white ppl was into Miles
I personally never understood people that go to hear a musician and then complain about things like this. A musician is gonna give you music. If you want a show go see a pop star.
Disagree I think the young man was polite and asked a honest question, Plus you can tell he is awestruck for the artist. So no I don't feel it's wrong to inquire, that's how you know and learn, Now if he had been disrespectful it would have been a whole different conversation.
Davis is right. It's all about the sound baby
great example of perspective.what you hear and see is different the what the other person hears and sees.host percieved it was some antic.when it isnt.remember this when argueing with others.this is life changing info.
GREAT question and better answer...never even considered that answer.
A reasonable explanation, with no anger.Miles was complex,and therefore misunderstood by many.Except when he played.
He's certainly trying to be complex.
My wife saw Miles at the North Sea Jazz Fest in Rotterdam and thought it wrong that Miles played with his back turned toward the audience. Then I see this video 40 years later and the mystery is solved.
I saw him m at the Apollo when I was a child and he played his whole set with his back to the audience. He spoke to us and thanks us at the end that was the only time we saw his face.
I mean this guy sheesh! The style the respect the greatness. ❤
Does a classical orchestra or choral group conductor face his audience when conducting? Hell no! It's all about the leader maintaining constant communication with his musicians. World class jazz musicians are constantly reading each other's body and sound language as they perform to remain cohesive. And there are frequent real-time sound imbalances, even instrument malfunctions, something that only the leader can address and fix. This would never be questioned in the classical realm. Tongue-in-cheek: If the audience really wants to experience abandonment by the artists they paid good $$$ to hear, the best way is to get that is exactly this - the leader ignores his band, totally plays to the audience, and ignores whatever potential chaos could ensue from having a disengaged front man. I think this was something the media noticed in Miles and for whatever reason, decided to make it an issue.
Great point man. That whole nonsense came about because white audiences felt he was ‘disrespecting’ them. Not all black performers have to be all dancing and showing their teeth! Anyway, he has given his answer, so that’s that!
Shout out to my Birthday Brother Miles Davis... anybody born on that day is built different
Miles did explain this in his book.
Working the bounce. I knew his answer before he said it.
Man , I wish I saw Miles play live. Legendary genius right there…
Miles "I invented Cool" Davis .....
I cant see how anyone serious about learning music and wanting to progress wouldn't learn a lot by checking out Miles' stuff and listen to not only his sound and skills, but his timeless words of wisdom. Respect, RiP 🙏🏼🆒 🎺
Miles is so cool. I named my son after him. The Man with the Horn. Miles ahead peace bro. Hope you're jamming with Coltrane and Jimi up there.
And prince look can I play with you
Prince ft miles davis
Hendrix not playing with them he can't keep up
@@sjb7183miles actually wanted to do a collaboration with Hendrix but it never happened.
You named your son 'The Man with the Horn'? ;-0) Obvs kidding. But agreed, I love Miles too. And Coltrane. And Hendrix. Been playing trumpet decades thanks to Miles, and bought a sax two days ago due to Coltrane!
@@sjb7183 disagree dude
Miles WAS DIRECTING HIS BAND....to make the MUSIC....BETTER....FOR US!!!!
He never 'turned his back on the audience.'
My man was _cripllingly_ cool.
He straight up _exhausted_ himself with how fucking cool he was.
Love his music
He mixes himself, what a real passionate ❤
Total legend...
Great Question, And An Even More Enlightened Answer 💪🏿
I Remember This(Quote)From Miles Davis 🎺🎫About Turning His Back On The Audience(I PLAY FOR MYSELF,AND FOR MY MUSICIAN’S!)!!!!!!
Once I won first-row seats to a Miles Davis concert. Unexpectedly, he played the whole set facing us. Perhaps it worked for him that way on that particular stage :) It was unforgettable.
he and parker together between 1948/1950, bebop era gave us the best music of the 20th century
😮✨️OOOHHH SHHHHHT
Miles was dropping science and that's a DOPE answer he really don't turn his back because if he really did while performing turning his back would be to walk the fk off tge stage so he's performing yet he does face the crowd here n there so now you can see how he turns major for te top quality sound n probly a great sound not knowing now only if you compare its hard to do that because who else was playing horn n sound like he sound.
Classic moment in music. I love this😂
Miles Davis interpretation of this song I remember April it’s so haunting and so soulful if you can hear and listen to him playing that song and don’t consider him the greatest trap dear you don’t know what’s going on that’s❤
this isnt diplomacy, this isnt tension, this is an honest response, a good musician is trying to gauge the where the best sound is and gift that to their audience. personally ive found that when my mind is not really "listening", ie, when my thoughts are not on the music, it's because of my eyes. your eyes are working overtime and theyre distracting. i close my eyes when this happens, and my ears kick into overdrive. i highly recommend it.
A musician focusing on the music and how it sounds during a performance instead of being seen and mugging for the crowd? What an insane concept!
The best of all jazz artists to me. Miles was on a whole different level, shaped by his Jim Crow era experiences, he channeled all that anger, confusion, and sorrow into that trumpet.
… the Genius that was Miles Davis ❤️🔥🖤❤️🔥….. I saw him turn his back on an all Caucasian audience in a time when segregation was high and when I saw him turn his back it was said along the lines of these folks got Us coming thru the back door to hear Us play so they can look at my back while I play….💥 I Thoth that was badass and I co-signed on it ⚡️ didn’t know it was most of his shows 🙏🏾 bless the Ancestors🖤
Resonance. Beautiful.
When even in less than respectful moments, there was an emphasis on being WELL-SPOKEN!
Sound systems and the acoustics from when Miles played were not accommodating to getting a good tone things have changed a lot
Its whole field of study acoustic design, most people don't realise that before PA system and sound speakers, public venues were designed to amplify sound and that when PA system were introduced it created what Miles is talking about
@@akho2304Miles always "turned his back" well before PA systems were around.
That Aura man... You can't replicate that...
Great knowledge… Thanks for sharing.
Great answer. That's why mikes is top 3 if not the GOAT for trumpet
Love ❤ Mr. Davis.
True musician knows his art in and out
Such a legend, I truly love his originality and refusing to cave into these yt music companies
Love his ballads
Huh 😮ballads?
Love this dude. The coolest cat. What a musician.
Great artist are always complex humans, I never understood why some questioned what Miles did on stage, it makes no difference.
I went to a couples of his concerts..one of them was at a small dinner club, my table was in the front and he never looked at the audience, only held up cue cards with his band mates names on them when they soloed, I went there to hear the man’s music and that was more than enough…besides if you were a true fan you would know about the complexities that made Miles Davis 🙏🏾🕊️
Totally straight forward. But plucky dude to ask if he thought it might be taken the wrong way.
Andre was about to shit himself thinking he just pissed off his idol 😂
Makes perfect sense. As expected.
I felt this in my spirit ❤
Great question. I figured he’d say that fans come to “hear” him play not necessarily to “watch” him play.
I didnt even mind that. My beef was he never introduced the songs he was performing. He'd just walk out and start playing.
I'm fine with that. Just wish I had witnessed it in person. I grew up in the 80s with him mostly scoffing at the media more than performing by then.
And next so what! Such a mood 😂
For years, Carlos Santana had his back to audiences. Also, Franz Liszt was one of the first classical musicians to make a point of facing his audiences - he enjoyed watching their responses.
As a Musician since" 1967 "I can actually say he is right. Many times on songs a certain instrument has the groove and dominate the orchestration and give flavor to the whole song/tune.
Bro impeccable!!
If people pay to HEAR him play it shouldn't matter what direction he's facing. If he needs to turn around to focus they should be fine with that. Should he be forced to move his hips too? Respect the musician.
Miles could be a real scary dude 😅
Check out the movie Miles Ahead with Don Chedele, and you'll see how scary he really was..
He looks like jeepers creepers here. Could you wear anything more cryptic than an off grey that blends in with your skin.
Nah bro he’s wise and he seems tht way cs media was tearing these artist apart but he was wity
He always just thinking of the music.
The Coolest dude on the planet...his soun-energy stands for immortality ❤
Acousticly Speaking 👍
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That "I AM BATMAN" look though...lol. Miles is the MASTUH!
Makes sense. Your sound isnt bouncing back from the audience. Acoustic instruments have to be heard and felt by the player or theres no bearings on what their doing or how to nuance something you cant hear but everyone else can.
The audience is getting a more balanced version of the audio than the players are. Based on proximity.
But also like he says some instruments just dont sound good in some spots or just not alive. Guitar sounds huge in a room with no furniture in it. But drums in a room or corner with no padding sounds like loud muddy clanking with echo and bleed over. Lol.
Theres no tightness.
Tight instruments need an almost unnoticeable amount of reverb and loose instruments need deadening. If that makes sense.
And which way youre pointing the hole that makes the sound go bang can mean all the difference.
Also as an electric guitarist i can 100% tell you the second you add electronics and signals just what direction you move can make something squeal or squeak or buzz or ring or have vibrato including distance and position from the amplifiers.
Youre essentially putting a bunch of magnets and antennas all over a bunch of stuff that carries its notes through the air which is also what carries radio signal and youre banging them all around lol even completely wired, no wireless, everything gives off output signals.
Cell phones and wifi are the worst and can completely ruin recordings with a repetitive chirping that happens which sometimes you can only hear after you recorded a whole session on playback. Which im sure is each wave pulse hitting the mic. In the tempo of which the waves are entering or exiting.
Which you know is also 100% hitting your brain and ears 24/7 at all times
But thats a whole other subject.📡☢📡☢
Just because you dont NOTICE it. Doesn't mean its not HAPPENING.
My uncle/aunt went to see miles and he kept his back to the audience while dressed like the tin man from the wizard of oz.They said he didn't sound the same🤓🌍👂🐝🔜💣🔚
You just don’t get it to do
Miles looking like jeepers creeper
You wrong for that!😂
If peeing your pants is cool consider me Miles Davis
Remember little kid maybe 10 years old and he was doing a concert on PBS PBS outdoor place I don’t know where it was but I actually watched at least 90% of the show I think that’s only because I tuned in late
I've watched his documentary like 3 times on Netflix. Amazing stuff. Highly recommned if you really want to know all about miles davis 😎
Its just high level musicionship. Finding how the sound bounces to best fit in with the music
I remember being a kid in the late 80s and watching one of Miles televised performances, and my Mother saying "he's still turning his back on the audience" and me just thinking that it was the most bad assed thing I'd ever seen a peformer do.
20 years later reading his autobio, he was like "I did that so the Band could hear me" 😂
✍🏾Take note!🎵
Miles was so sweet in here 😂
it's a valid explanation except for one thing. I'm thinking to when I saw him play live. At no point before, during, or after the concert did he ever look at or acknowledge the audience in any way at all. It was as if we weren't even there. So it had nothing to do with just finding the spot where the trumpet sounded best to him. It had to do with him thinking he was better than the people who paid to see him play.
As a musician, how you hear yourself as you play has a lot to do with how you sound to your audience. To a musician, the music is your focus. The audience is secondary although we appreciate their presence and attendance. Also many musicians are introverts. My brother used to look away from the audience. He was more comfortable that way.
That's MILES. ❤ Very big part of my life. From the womb, to the tomb. MILES LIVES !!!.😊
Now that's living for music
Miles at the beginning looks like the scene from the movie the Elephant Man when he was hiding his face..
Remind me to rewatch "Collateral" with Tom Cruise as a debonair Hitman. His exchange with Daniel sounds like someone's actual account!
They say when recording his album Robert Johnson turned his back to protect his playing style. But it was actually just for acoustics.
He also once said nobody says that about symphony conducter, and i am conducting.
Never a musical question, only a consumer's demand
Nah bro chill. It was a valid question, asked respectfully, and miles gave a valid response. Nothing wrong with that
He wants to produce the best music possible for the consumer... Usually they that includes trying to duplicate the live sound to equal the recordings that they're use to hearing. I'm a drummer and I understand exactly what he's trying to explain*😎*
Poor guy was shook when Miles peered over his coat arm at him like Dracula 😂😅
What about so I can hear Myself, don't you get, what's happening!
Deep great explanation
Don't F with Miles 😂🤣🤣
What does standing at a certain part of the stage have to do with playing with your back turned?
cuz trumpet is loud af, and sound reflects. directionality matters.
❤MILES❤. UNAPOLOGETIC.
He should have done Hello Dolly....
If you think about it, everybody on stage "having to" face forward is a little weird, especially if it's highly interactive instrumental music. You can bet they practice in a circle, looking at each other. Just be glad to see them making the music and, y'know...listen.
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I didn't know El Zorro played the trumped.
Standing before ur audience, yes celebrity worship at the highest level while the celebrity doesn’t even understand ur worship of him but just the music bc that’s what it’s all about, how the music moves u and makes u feel, not how the celebrity makes u feel or move. 75% of artist don’t even write their own songs and if they do a lot of times it’s switched or refined by the record industry anyway to suit their interests or taste
This man sitting on that couch lookin' like some kinda Disney Villain 😂😂😂
No Disney Villian has ever had style and presence like Miles Davis.
Davis and Disney merely share a universe like so many strangers do, Saturn and Jupiter exist in the same universe too, and we humans exist with the Sun but to say one is the like the other - impossible.
@Killahsoftly Non-Duality, friend. Everything is, in fact, the Same Thing.
As a trumpet player I can Say ... yes...Is totaly normal you try to get a Better timbro move your trumpet and feel the resonamce