Miles Davis on 60 Minutes(USA) - 1989
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- Classic interview of the late great jazz genius Miles Davis by Harry Reasoner of the CBS News program "60 Minutes" in 1989. Posting this program for educational purposes only - I own no rights to this program.
how are you miles?
miles: "yeah"
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Yeah man
“My mommas good lookin my daddy’s rich and I can play the blues just fine” - music isn’t always about hardships it’s about telling an exciting story
And self expression , like any art form ❤
"... and I dont intend to suffer." Love this cat
he had already suffered, by 'kicking' dope
"I've never suffered and I don't intend to suffer"
Sincerity > authenticity
Who is cooler than Miles Davis?
No one.
Seeing Miles' disdain and uninterest in being interviewed makes me like him even more.
@PS Schizo comment
Check out Bob Dylan
@@bdorrd3631 never heard of him
What a stupid comment. Makes me hate you even more. 🤷♂🙄
@@zebjwest6709 thanks for telling us bro, very interesting
The mind of a genius is the hardest thing to understand.
Man he laid it out plain and simple here don't you think ? The interviewer is just as mucha genius as he is btw
So is someone who speaks like the wind
I don't know I can understand him perfectly he's speaking really simply
Why is that? Geniuses usually make sense. Idiots like our current presidential administration are too stupid to understand, especially Kamala.
carlos you dumb
This interviewer has my fucking jaw on the floor, WHAT the HELL are these lines of questioning? Holy shit
LOL!!!!
forreal lol
I'm right there with you! I'm like WTF are you talking about dude...He's as bad as Dick Cavet when he interviewed Richard Pryor.
Embarrassing. You need to have some clue about music and the arts in order to interview someone of this stature. What a waste of a good opportunity.
Interviewer is a waste of space.
When speaking he doesn't feel the need to share more than he feels is necessary, just like in his music. Exactly what is needed, no more no less.
Miles to a young Herbie "don't play butter (unnecessary) notes"..!
Alchemist with Earl Sweatshirt brought me to this gem of an interview of Miles Davis (13:05 for those familiar).
i was literally looking for this
Larry June brought me. Around 7:15 😂
Best interview ever.
Not the interviewer.
The interviewee.
Puts it all in place shuts dow. The trivial bs
Anyone who is an amateur musician who has written some songs , and who listen to his music.. No words can expain it. This must be the best interview ever by a musician.
There are a lot of people in this comment section calling it a terrible interview because they don’t even discuss music, theory, genre etc. but I agree You learn a lot more about hi-tire musician’s music through learning about the musician as a person.
"Knowledge is Happiness " 🤲🏿
"Are you anti-white?"
"Not all the time" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
7:46
Until it came to women, he was a great musician but a horrible person..hated the white man but love the white mans daughters..so mentally screwed!
So happy they put this together back in the day for people to enjoy forever
"Who should we get to interview Miles Davis?"
"THE WHITEST MAN WE CAN FFFFFINDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!"
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
LMAO 🤣
“My father’s rich, my mama’s good looking and I can play the blues.” 👏
0:42 Goddamn Miles looks cool as fuck, he looks like he came out of a gangster movie and it shows that he really was the King Of Cool.
'Pimping is bad?' Man can't get more real.
This was a great interview, that's about as gregarious as you're ever going to see that guy.
funny like somehow he looks younger here than in these clips from 60s. legend.
Tell that to his hairline! 😅😅😅
@@kw9568 Give him a better hairline then take away the wrinkles and boom 😂
@@pradabearsThe man is about 63 years old here. and his hairline is as fine as his extremely handsome face. Concentrate on his musical genius and don't be an unfunny bytch.
Miles was impatient with stupid or uninspired questions or interviewers,but he was actually very kind and supportive to his bandmates,with a very sharp sense of humor.
“You said you were pimping for a while…” “is that bad?” Lmfao 🤣
7:46 🤣🤣🤣
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😆😆😆breh people bé so out of touch
Miles is the most human being that ever lived
13:08 sample on E. coli by earl sweatshirt
Iconic!
I wish I'd been paying attention as a teenager, I didn't start listening until I was about thirty. At least he left us a treasure trove of music to appreciate.
thanks for sharing,
These questions they gave him were terrible... Long live Miles.
How did that Harry guy become an interviewer? I'll never understand.
Because he was able to get interesting, engaged responses from his interviews. Being a good interviewer isn’t about people thinking you’re hip.
Oh my. Fine, fine, Miles Davis. One of a kind.
When I first heard Miles Davis jazz music I was only 4 years old and that was in 1992 in Chicago.
He died in 91
one of the smoothest and most down dudes to walk the planet. my black daddy met a pretty white woman and they had me, he put me on to the jazz king at a young age. now 30 with a kid of my own, i named my son Miles David, a slight play on the name. my 3 year old asks for jazz instead of of the bs they play now & i couldn’t be more proud. RIP daddy & RIP legend.
Not my black daddy lol
Cool. if I had a boy, I'd name him Miles too. He was cooler than the other side of the pillow.
@@signedaleo1263 right like huh???
You said "pretty white woman".. Your father is not pretty too ?
Great interview. Thanks for uploading.
I find him very intriguing but it's not empty as his talent matches his mystery!
HBD, MIles!
I enjoyed listening to Miles Davis. Thanks.
LONG LIVE MR.MILES DAVIS
Miss You Miles💕💕
LEGEND
What a legend. Reminds me of Basquiat.
“What’s-his-name” interviewing Miles Davis.
History will remember Miles Davis.😂
What a star.
Miles was cool.
Lmaooooo 😅 he seems cool as hell. I don't know why people tried to make him so scary. He like the crazy funny uncle 🤣. 11:30
Ummmm I guess you didn't realize how short this documentary was. Miles Davis was crazy, jealous, beat his wife, did coke & heroine....he was kinda scary at times.
Miles was a Gemini. So there was another side to him
yea i never understood that as well. my guess bc he was a powerful black man who took no shit from anyone, didn't matter who you were. i highly suggest reading his autobiography - gives you a better glimpse into his life and struggles he faced coming up in music world
Exactly he is a GREAT musician but a HORRIBLE human..he also spread HIV before he left this earth and knew he had it for almost 10 years
This reporter, was way under Miles’ level. My aunt dated Miles (according to what my dad told me). She mentioned that he was more than eccentric. I admire his mannerisms, his music and his coolness
Many of the questions are ridiculous but Miles handles them with class. Miles was very intelligent and artistic.
His voice sounds particularly smoky during this interview.
I love these hyperfocused people.
Anyone else notice that he didn't age a day in 30 years?
That's so not even close to being true
He was a Alien bro
*People like to throw around the word genius all the time with people who aren't ones When comes to Miles Davis they would be right, what Mozart is to classical music Miles is to JAZZ a genius*
They ironically have similar birth/death years
Mozart 1756-1791 35 Years Old
Miles 1926-1991 65 Years Old
They should have had Ed Bradley interview him instead. This guy? Jeez.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼great talent
This whole interview:
Harry Reasoner: "Dumb question"
Miles: "........... man, WTF?"
Right! I'm like , did he just really ask if slavery has to do with talent?
“White musicians seem to lag behind the beat”
Lagging behind the beat makes it more aggressive, jazz is not usually an aggressive feel so being on the top side of the beat gives it a lighter sound. That's my understanding.
this my guy right here lol
Miles: true hero 🙏
This interviewers questions are so aggy 😭
But Miles answers real true to his truth
True artist
I strongly recommend you read "Miles: The Autobiography" (1989). The audiobook version, narrated by LeVar Burton, was nominated for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards.
13:06 this interviewer is sub par the guy basically underhand throws you a question and you don't ask "What did you learn?"
exactly. that man spent the whole interview making assumptions rather than getting to know him
Why should he care what people think, why should anyone care? Just do your thing and F the people who try to bring you down.
they took the original down? Thank you.
I did a history project on this brutha
Why Harry Reasoner?? Ed Bradley was there at the time?😒
Woulda been too easy of an interview.
You can fell talking to a genius because is not giving you yes or no answer, he is always open minded
Miles Davis was based. .
The 2 coolest people alive. MILES DAVIS and
You mean dead? He and Prince. Simple as.
Disgusting line of questioning
Miles Davis was the Pimpin in a real way
Terrible interviewer. Miles is sitting right in front of you. "Tell me about that gossip with your ex-wife?!?!"
That interviewer is so cringe
My father is rich my mother is good looking : thats Cole Porter isn't it?
Gershwin
I came from E.Coli - The Alchemist ft. Earl Swrathirt :)
What he said about american women is spot on, but applied to all americans. You all act like you were born to be on TV.
What are these questions 😮
Journalist: “I’m not sure how I feel about him as a person”
Who asked you??
10:00, American women, he NAILED it. If you see pretty women from other countries, they do not act like a character from "Dallas" the soap opera. They act like feminine women. They are pretty but do not count on that to attract a man.
He died too early in this world.
Sure did
No he poisoned his body look up his cause of death
Genius suffers in America
Miles was a sigma male and very much enigmatic
pimpin- girls would be paying me 200 dollars a night
Miles you definitely put the interviewer in his place and oddly in a not a very offensive tone
MR. KOOOOL PERSONIFIED!!!😉
It's the story . And I O.D 3 years ago. Said I was done and Im done .
But still am
An addicted
11:30 Santana lol
Most racist,disrespectful and ignorant interview I ever saw!
Miles is great as always tho
5:26 what is that tune
I’d like to know too !!
I think he’s just playing with the melody of “A tisket A tasket.” Lookup his performance Human Nature with Chaka Khan…he plays around with it in the middle of the song.
@@johnstrumm2690 thank you that's right
@@mohamedehab2203 You are most welcome. I'm surprised I could even pick it out ;)
@@johnstrumm2690 Miles lives on buddy
6:38
What's up with this interviewer? He doesn't even know Davis and he jumps to conclusions and belittles
He is white
That’s what they do to us all the time
Shows his Ferrari*
Calls him upper middle class
Does anyone know the name of the song ar 1:00
I think it’s off Amandla
The name is tutu and its the name of the album he done in 1986
Y’all ever notice the questions a white interviewer asks any black man in the 80s and 90s
Did he say Tesla roadster?
Testarossa- a make of Ferrari- it is Italian for Red-Head- Enzo's favourite type of woman!! :)
Who’s enzo
Also what ferrari is
@@blondeguyy4944 Enzo Ferrari is an Italian car designer
He wasn't all of that
By all accounts he was not a good man, drug addict, beat his women, had a temper etc.
Nah he had a good side and a bad side , besides his music he did alot of good way more than bad that rarely gets talked about because positivity don’t sell
@JusNBL2000 People are such fanboys and cannot be objective. Some examples....Trump, Michael Jackson, Elvis dated a lot of minors, etc....why can't people admit and acknowledge these people and many others they fanboy over clearly did horrible things but also are very talented in one area of life
@@MilkyWayGalaxyy Well Michael Jackson wasn’t a pedo he was just weird it’s been proven he was innocent he was just weird & I just was highlighting Miles helped a lot of ppl but that doesn’t get highlighted or talked about he Paid for ppl to get into rehab , Helped ppl if they were gonna get evicted, he was a very generous guy he didn’t want the world to know that side of him , His drug issue came from having sickle cell and it changed his behavior he talked about it in his book from ppl who really knew him said he was childlike naive kind of dude behind his “Cool” persona
@@MilkyWayGalaxyy Everybody has done horrible things it’s called being human , you can’t exist without having a Good and Bad side it’s not possible
@JusNBL2000 Not horrible things. Everyone has done bad things but not everyone has done drugs, committed murder, beating, child abuse, sexual assault, rape etc.
Just bc Michael Jackson, R Kelly, Puffy, Cosby, Elvis are talented in music does not make it okay to the horrible crimes they did against children and women and men
Black musician's just have the feel and groove imbedded in them, You just have to look at Michael Jackson catalogue of music and career, he didn't have any memorable hits after his skin turned white, it's just a fact.....Miles is smooooth, I don't know alot about pimpin' but folks say it ain't easy, Miles made it sound easy.
Thats a trash take for sure. Stevie ray vaughan could outplay several black musicians. Has nothing to do with skin color. All to do with skill and feeling and connection with the music.
Michael Jackson released the "Dangerous" and "HIStory, Book I (Disc 2)" albums when he was white. Will you tell me there's nothing memorable in there?
@@jonahchrestman6199 I see you got triggered. 😂 Honestly, your take is hilarious and rather unpopular. I will never forget when someone said that Stevie Ray Vaughn is nothing more than a Jimi Hendrix rip-off. The irony is that, Stevie Ray Vaughn agreed/implied that BLACK musicians are MORE talented. Stevie once quoted, “I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be BLACK TWICE.” Even Stevie’s BIGGEST influence was BLACK. Historically, NO ONE has renovated, influenced, and done music like Black people particularly (African Americans), some may have come close, but it doesn’t have the authentic ‘soul’ like Black folks. But hey, whatever makes you sleep better at night. 🥴
Kanye really does feel like mikes reincarnated
No he’s not. Miles was proud of his blackness, Kanye is not.
100%. In their approach to staying fresh and new, staying in touch with the music of the youth, having a big picture artistic vision (music to visuals)... how they delegate work and creativity among their collaborators
@@Abercrombieindya Not even true. Kanye sees through the Democratic Party and their incessant need to infantilize black people through social welfare programs. Black people becoming entrepreneurial through free market systems is more empowering than being told how much of a victim your entire race is as the party keeps you stranded at the bottom of the social ladder, gets rid of black father's and replaced them with easy, government handouts.
Well this didnt age well
@@greendayforever789 :(
1:40 "are black musicians better than white musicians?" Worst interviewer ever
Friendly enough interview but typical CBS interview...talk talk talk and learn absolutely nothing about the man. Who writes these questions?
Miles paints. Big deal. Tony Bennett & Joni Mitchell paint. Miles is known as a great musician...explore what goes into making an album. What inspired him to call one LP "Bitches Brew," & another "Nefertiti."
What kind of books does he read? Does have a favorite author? What calms him when he's all keyed up?
You ask him about being racist when you should know his arranger/pianist/orchestrator for years & partner in music has been the white Gil Evans. Gil died in 1988 -- if before this interview why not ask Miles about that? Interviewing Miles with Gil Evans (if he was healthy) would have been a coup. Miles met Evans all the way back in the 1940s -- they've known each other for decades.
What kind of trumpets do you use? Is there any competition with him and other trumpet players? Did he ever meet Chet Baker? Or, Art Pepper? What did he think of the great jazz pianist Lenny Tristano? Did they ever play together? Who would Miles go see live? What surprised him about the new music?
I guess we may never know -- but, we know Miles likes to watch boxing, he was a "pimp," because women liked him, (what a stupid question), he went cold turkey on heroin -- well, a logical follow-up question would've been -- did he learn anything about the man he was on heroin & the man who kicked it? He didn't get along with Cicely Tyson, this is important I guess? Cops pulled him over because he has a Ferrari -- I guess cops don't listen to jazz & a quick check of his registration & license didn't clear him?
What music was he specifically listening to as a teenager? Did he like Louis Armstrong's Hot 5's & 7's from back in the 20s? Bix? Clark Terry? How about his thoughts on the more contemporary trumpet players Al Hirt? Doc Severinsen? Herb Alpert? Jack Sheldon? What does he think made them special? Are any European trumpet players worthy? Nino Rosso? (He wrote the classic "Il Silenzio").
He played with John Coltrane. Well, what are his thoughts on working with Coltrane? Did his death from liver cancer affect him? Dizzy & Parker? Nothing. No anecdotes from the music world of the late 40s - 50s?
They always send the wrong people to talk to artists like Miles. Miles should've gone the Elvis Presley route: let no one interview you. Not Johnny Carson, Barbara Walters, Dick Cavett, or 60 Minutes. The mystique would've been left intact. Downbeat Magazine probably would've done a better job or maybe the Village Voice's Nat Hentoff. But Harry Reasoner? Give me a break.
I learned nothing from this. I don't think Reasoner understood a thing Miles was talking about. I would've been a better choice & I could've winged it. I'm not even a huge fan of Miles' music but I like what Miles "created" of himself -- the image, the performances, the personality. All ideal. Masterful.
But as Elvis once said -- the image is one thing -- the man is entirely different.
They didn't learn that lesson talking to Miles Davis.
Thank you for this. I wish these types of questions would have been asked. I HATE that Miles had to suffer such idiots interviewing him in his final decade.You mentioned Dick Cavett - ironically he was the only one to actually give Miles a respectable interview during this time. That interview is here on TH-cam as well.
Btw, Miles and Chet knew each other personally, there are images of the two of them together, alongside fellow trumpeter Rolf Erickson.
@@williemakeit2346 - Thanks Willie, & for what you added. Yes, Miles & Cavett had a good meeting.
I think Dick researched his guests. He often appeared more prepared than most.
I lumped Cavett in there because he was part of that late-night show lineup. But you're right, he did a fine job with his music guests including the more difficult ones.
Unless I misunderstood, Miles didn’t ask to be interviewed. They asked him. So you got what you asked for. Genuine Miles.
Harry Ressoner is clueless about blackness, music and being cool. He shouldn't have been the one chosen to interview Miles Davis.
where was ed bradley?
Apparently Miles Davis approved of him or he wouldn't have agreed to the interview. If a black dude had interviewed MD they would have been too similar and Miles' coolness would not have stood out. I like they they were very different men, but still found a way to communicate and be friendly and civil. Segregation is not good for race relations, remember?
Man this is uncomfortable to watch. Did the interviewer just fall of the turnip truck?
If he is 63 years old on this interview, he looks great. His skin looks great.
And he died 2 years later. 😮
@@jamesm.3967 dang
Yes is HIV that he passed around before he left..his lips had herpes on it so what skin you see?
That’s the Fula DNA 😎
Im a huge miles davis fan and john coltrane fan
You should do an AMA
Harry Reasoner . . . I couldn't stop cringing. He can't discuss music when he's not reading from a prepared script, so he asks Davis about heroin addiction, pimping, his marriage to Cicely Tyson, Medicare etc etc. In that nasal droning voice. And the way 60 Minutes marveled at a black man owning a Ferrari as if it was the seventh wonder of the world, too embarrassing. I'm astonished that Davis stood for it as long as he did and I don't blame him in the least for turning on the TV in the middle of the interview. Miles Davis was not the most approachable man who ever lived, but he was a singular musical genius and was fascinating to listen to when interviewed intelligently.
You’re speaking truth. The interviewer didn’t know what the hell he was asking and didn’t know about his music or his genius
Yep. Black musicians never seem to get the respect they deserve from the white media
Harry Reasoner was not much of an interviewer, but apparently a very nice man. At least according to Ed Bradley and Andy Rooney.
@@isaiahromero9861 Amen... You have spoken pure truth...
People have to realize miles davis was a musical genius and also an ex-pimp, drug addict and wife beater. His music brought him money & fame. That's it.