Miles Davis interview 1987

excuse-moi okay ready okay mom influences same - Florence in st. Louis was it is it the first record that I had will had three records it was wouldn't you a dizzy and calming August our tatum jamie chad count basic we were playing Mayan fuzz mostly was dizzy but also first it was clogged tear st. Louis trumpet blare yeah say see trouble if Sandra's is a is a place when the big band is to come in town and from and up from New Orleans on the boat and if the big bats when they needed to trauma plate was stopped in st. Louis and I was 15 when I was playing my passion up I had a union call it was 15 but it was it was mostly brother Eddie random clogged her Levi they was here and another guy named Jeff King but that's it when the big banner needs a trumpet player or a show drama yeah he would come just when he stopped and saying or say well you pick up a trumpet blur so they wanted me but I couldn't go anywhere pills are most science laws okay like you were at Julia when in New York City in st. Louis no Julliard was in New York but okay Juilliard in sample and in New York describe that uh that that that what you did there like as a student at Juilliard describe that you know in st. Louis sliced it came to town you know it even said it was it was just something that started happening like Sonny did it you know Sonny said I play like a guy named Charlie Parker but I never seen him and it was that wasn't a voyage so when I went to Juilliard what they were trying to teach our he knew you know it's like I told my uncle I told my best friend Freddie Webb's he's dead now I said Fred I have to go to st. Louis he said why is it cuz you know what's gonna happen you know what them crackers out there and you gonna get mad and somewhere to my each other yeah I said no I'm gonna tell my father that I'm I'm gonna quit Julia he will call him up I said not him I can't call him up and tell him some like that some went out to go train with the sailors he looked up and say what the are you doing he's who is doing something to somebody's teeth you know and I he was a dentist and I sprang to her I said listen there's a thing going on I couldn't call him on the phone and say you know it's Yardbirds and dizzy you know he don't know you you said what are you talking about you know so I had to go there and tell him that Isis is little thing going on it the music is changing you know and I'm in that environment so Julia was just you know white it was white you know I mean yeah I couldn't get in the Philharmonic in the $7 and I didn't want to you know but I had to tell my father that you know by mom calling all cars birdie des but power you know okay you were there in New York City with bird mom dizzy art explain the feeling while you were in New York with the pioneers the innovators James the feeling I got was in st. Louis when I came to st. look what Billy Eckstine came to st. Louis and me meeting Sonny Stitt with the McKinley cotton pickers but my mother would let me go well you know but I heard dizzy I'd Blake third Nucky Thompson Sarah Jeanne Islands I heard all them at once I said that's the most fun I ever had with my clothes off god damn can you imagine that not 15 but see we're on the verge of that anyway I knew them they were planned but I mean it wasn't dizzy first it was the whole thing together like Pam it is what you want to be you know and my hair just carried me right to her and is it another trouble bunny knight named Boreanaz so buddy got had a hemorrhage and I joined bees bad but I've weak that's what it what it's not shocked with the you know when you see somebody say you want some clothes and you don't know whether you should wear long coat coat to your knee or short you can you see somebody that has on this short code and you like the way they looked at it makes up your mind you know they'd only pulled a step on what I wanted to do it wasn't in New York I was and saying oh okay describe that that wonderful band of next time I mean it had a lot of individuals I just told you about it mister yeah that was that quick it was also a team effort it wasn't like one individual what that band was a band with the band so beast left fertilized and he and yes dizzy and bird and javelin several arrangements so that that was the band Earl Hines you know it was a team effort cuz all I'm playing a liking it and not alike it sort of like what it was a team effort describe Charlie Parker has a person any position as an influence in your life my first place burn was off her selfish we never did talk you know if I if I had uh my wife right and it I thought let bird stay I got him a room in the same place that we were right so I would be that much money so I would I would tell Irene I'd seen I fix some corn bread and we bought some cabbage put potatoes in you know I make like cabbage bird come downstairs right now the cornbread is just big right how we don't have no money just a little bit right so say bird you want some meat it come in my car is like this right it cut this half yeah hater s right sup dude I call him again you know and he did it again so I stopped calling but most geniuses are selfish you know and he did things in abundance like shoot dope you know I did you just took everything to the extreme that's mean he was like he is what he is way he still is describe your feeling of a genius Clifford Brown but clear clear when the genius see a fats Navarro started in style a Clifford play pay played I don't know what you mean about genius Oh Clifford hey we're in an elevator because that style with fats and fats and I used to play like when we get to cut together it was just a style that was going on in New York and Clifford was in Philadelphia there was Clifford and Lee Martin I mentally when he's about 13 she was doing that night in and Coltrane was in Philadelphia he went through a couple three or four thousands to play like Eddie Davis in science he play one and let his favor was sign stood Dexter Eddie Davis Tambor and Sonny Rollins say I had a band with Sonny Rollins and Coltrane and a nod Blake and I you should have heard that band but that was the style around New York but Sonny Sonny was the slickest you know even but he could he is he could you could play on the same level that bird play Jenna Sonny I really love Sonny I love that style we play together and we should play a style called pecking but we've split up the phrases you know Oh bird never didn't do that yeah or bleep well you know what please he plays the same thing now that he played and beat bad but the reason Aaron is so great he loves music and every time he plays the drums he's playing it like he can't that's someone who won't let him play tomorrow so he plays it like he you know like well this is it you know I'm I'm gonna do it better he plays been like that all this year and that's mean I love our not very well liked you know I loved Malcolm X theory but Martin Luther King I didn't you know I was going sister at the time I didn't I didn't agree with that you know cuz I'm from st. Louis you know and I believe an eye for an eye tooth or two you know if somebody tells something to me I mean you know like and it's one on one I'm not gonna say yeah but I don't believe in I believe in non-violence and they kicking my ass I don't do that but here's worked you know like her you see how much it worked they still rising you know what is Malcolm man pay month that's cool there's a Michael kick in here I can hear him if you want okay okay that's cool we gotta go in talk about mountain I can't talk about mouth I had my begin with it Max Roach introduce me talk to Matt Malcolm's thank you Paul roadside - I love Paul rose I just Harlan emple Jones because I couldn't find in any place and solid accosting and CBS she's she got she said guess what I found your support here for Jones cap cowboy in 1937 they see in 1935 when he was called Count Basie and the players but I used to do concerts for Paul the group since the daily walk in New York it's a communist newspaper so-called social statement at the time yeah okay what it was we only played music when Marcellus I can't say anything about whether he's a good trumpet player but he's he's a good prophet prophet is its he doesn't have any uh anything extra you know he's just he's precise you Noel and maybe later you're developing his you know you develop another style or as it is now you know he's just he's a good trumpet player no he's straight up okay we were talking about for the European music that has not been doctored with a plate with divinsky the Brahms the Rachmaninoff European classical music all-white classical music stays as is then and stays that way now but so call that for American or black music called jazz in this country it has been fused it has been doctored with and what have you getting a statement on that what your own adopted well if they're fusing it okay they're not keeping it in its purest form when you say purest form you know I'm saying like it was that I knew jazz in this country say like anyone ever had bell bottom pants they did that don't go you can't wear that today you know I mean you can't wear it today is you know this in 1986 it's almost 87 you know next year will be 87 but you can't continue to play like that I always saying clothes no sir you see when when I said always years ago we started right like I said there's no I had about four or five records that they would come off we get him out from the jukebox for five cents and I trumpet plays yeah here we go with Louie or up Roy Ellis Harry James but it was all in one record you know I mean we have but now I saw many records that you can when you say keep it pure that means that you have to copy everybody you know you really uh or sex won't be you can record practice you know and they'll see every cliches because paste is so many records a guy had to play like himself in those days you know but it's too easy the change will do an orchestration you know what I mean not in it it's no more stylist no you know okay like give me a statement on dr. Martin Luther King even though we know that you didn't lack in the st. Louis what do you think of it now do you have more appreciation of of an understanding of dr. King now than you do then you know dr. kids is a distant relative of my uncle's wife you know I still you're not still gonna agree what he did you know just because he died doesn't make me like him you know but like I said I Google Malcolm X's tag you know and Louis Farrakhan you know I can't I can't relate to that my god you know you see what happened they have been rides in in in New York and that's not that's not only New York is have a long okay Oh Roy Eldridge look and jazz that's the first that's the first my first influences Roy I used to play Oh rocking chair and I speak just like him but he is see if it wasn't a royalities and a Louie Armstrong there would be no me and dizzy and fats never you know describe the scene here in Los Angeles say in the 50s we used to hang out with Charlie Parker Hampton Hawes honey nya I will play together are you Central Africa what I came out to Los Angeles to to see our bird was and he was at camera I joined Betty Carter's bad dude and not yeah Betty cause of that and I came I came out just to see him you know it was Howard McGhee Sun it was Sonny's name so nice - yeah I think it was there and what Roy Porter German yeah Roy played something like like oh I'd like I get that same thing you know that same dryer but it was just burning and now McGee and Teddy Evers you know they they didn't quite know how to play like that it's a play like that first place you have to the flag would play you have to learn theory you know the fear is really I mean they couldn't play like they're how we can play like that but did it tried so I went out to see bird insane up and it just I said I look at he was in a in a you know and on the prison grounds camera and had this fence and they wouldn't let him out they just said you stand outside you can see him I haven't Peggy was real dark he bought my colored in it cuz he had the Sun but he didn't say nothing he'll sit down and let you know later the the first place there the you and you was black and had a white union and guys in the Union Haley the way we play if he will get a job that's a you're like after all you know like jam session they would come in say we couldn't play because today like the style was a threat to them and it was the honey dripper was out Dan donut I don't know that that was a and we didn't play like that only God that I like in that union with Paul Howard and that was it it's very difficult I did then I mean you know ideas in Lausanne have to have a car right it was the same thing being a musician and not not having a job when there were jobs around for us because it was you know like even once once a week they had jam session but they'd like her and when bird got out she made a record when if he hit a record you could tell it those shock treatments had him like a split second behind the rhythm and and he was a guy who played all even notes if he played fast and loud but the white man is something else man they took it took a thing for them they also did but like that see if you had full out of me always nobody would give him shock treatments because when you get shocked too much you can't do that she likes it's like if there's a one two three you know it's like it's like a micro behind your behind but with same way

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