“If I couldn’t create there would be nothing for me to live for. It’s selfish, I know, but geniuses are selfish.”
– Miles Davis
From the Jazz Hall of Fame series, produced by Quoted Studios and Jazz at Lincoln Center. From an interview with Ben Sidran. Directed by Patrick Smith; animated by Nate Milton.
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“So What,” written by Miles Davis, recorded on tour in Stockholm, 1960. Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums).
More:
“Listening to Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s Final Tour,” Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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“All Blues,” written and performed by Miles Davis in 1959.
Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (alto saxophone), Bill Evans (piano), Jimmy Cobb (drums), Paul Chambers (bass).
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“I Fall in Love Too Easily,” written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn in 1944, is now a jazz standard. Recorded in 1963 by Miles Davis (trumpet) with Victor Feldman (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Frank Butler (drums).
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“Au Bar Du Petit Bac,” Recorded at Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on December 4 and 5, 1957. Miles Davis (trumpet, composer); Barney Wilen (tenor saxophone); René Urtreger (piano); Pierre Michelot (bass); Kenny Clarke (drums).
From the soundtrack of the 1958 film “Ascenseur pour l’échafaud” (“Elevator to the Gallows”), directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet. The film, M. Malle’s first feature, is based on a novel by Noël Calef.
Malle filmed Miles watching Malle’s feature film during the soundtrack recording session:
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