Miles Davis - Turnaroundphrase (November 3 1973, Vienna)

[@Kohntarkosz]

The jazz snobs, who believed Miles was selling out by going electric and playing funk oriented music. I've always heard it said that Miles was going for "a younger crowd", but I can't imagine anyone hearing the music Miles was doing in the early 70's, and thinking "Oh, this is going to be all over top 40 radio!".

[@silvernatedogg]

He did what he wanted as genius often will.

[@Mimi420K]

Spot on chief !

[@SlowRide723]

A reporter once asked Miles about the change in Jazz from the 50s to the 70s. He replied "You call it Jazz, to me it's just music".

[@shasha-muse6054]

News of James Mtume's passing yesterday brought me here.....and here I'll stay. I never knew he played with Miles. This is amazing!!!

[@FreeCorps1984]

Wow, did not know that about Mtume. R.I.P.. Love his contributions this era of Miles

[@romemiller5349]

James Mtume was an element of musical genius in his on rite . His work on The Strata East Label is VERY impressive !!!

[@FrightNFight]

this band is beyond extraordinary

[@stanleyscott9786]

This performance is a holy event.

[@stevemack4643]

I saw this very same band in Boston, with the addition of Badal Roy on tablas. To this day, it remains as one of the most amazing live shows I have ever witnessed. I sat right down front less than six feet from Miles. After the show I hit the mens room and when I came out my buddy dragged me over to a table and there was Miles. My friend said "Miles, I want to meet my friend Steve". Miles gave me a "look", then extended his hand and shook mine. I was 23 and looked like a typical white boy hippie at the time.

[@GetUpTheMountains]

Sweet story Steve! You had a great buddy. What venue were you at?

[@BarryKurtz]

This music is as fresh today as it was 40 years ago. The band is phenomenal, Pete Cosey is a monster (solo starts around 9:40)! Listening to late 60's- early 70's Miles rewires your brain. Once it gets into you, you are never the same.

[@DarrenLipper]

True... I've just been getting into Dark Magus, Live-Evil, and On the Corner... I feel like I've opened some door I can't close!

[@dkorleone]

Well put, it's addictive. Once it gets hold of you it's hard to let go of it. Like a drug I know.

[@brookerothwell3881]

fucking right on!

[@afterlifeofej]

ddxm

[@basheermuhammad7757]

Pete Cosey interviewed, said he played and arranged on Billy Stewart's epic cover of "Summertime".

[@g2theg]

Wow! This stuff is STILL from another galaxy

[@AlexFehrTheLoneWolf]

70s Miles is indescribable, it's an all out assault! This is among my favorite live performances of all time(shame live 70-71 and 73-74 are missed in readily available releases yet the material is among his best work), this show absolutely needs to get restored for a release! I would buy in a heart beat!!!

[@montaukbiker]

Still makes my hair stand up and I lost it many years ago , I can’t help it !

[@mightyturkeyneck1349]

Miles had extraordinary chops, of course, but what I love most about his playing is its restraint and taste-- MIles was not the type to play six notes a second when a few notes would do. His tone is so molten, his attack so fierce, he never needs to ostentatiously display his chops to have impact.

[@creswellformey7654]

Absolutely. His literary analogue would be Hemingway in that sense. It's all about spare economy and silences.

[@basheermuhammad7757]

Wow, the electric sounds of silence & space...

[@basheermuhammad7757]

Musical logic & intelligence at its best.

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

yeah lots of space in Miles’ playing, he’s inventing ambient jazz, not much difference between the way he plays on something like Little Church and this.

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

@@creswellformey7654 e e cummings?

[@charlesdexterbrewer6586]

Agharta, Pangea, Dark Magus, are great double live vinyl lp’s of this era.

[@stanleyscott9786]

Of ANY era, not meant to overstate, either. An essence, boiling cauldron of creativity, led by the Hot Shining Star.

[@countycricklewood]

Everyone in their zone. Percussion and drum in sync. Superb. Sounds so good volume at max on stereo!

[@horusaps]

Liebman is a legend of that there is no doubt.

[@dannybeatty2325]

started listening to this planet when I was a kid ... I became an unimaginable thing,

[@romemiller5349]

The 70's Soul - Free Radical Jazz period is actually my favorite by Miles Davis ... i guess speaking as an abstract painter , i can relate to the destruction ...or should i say "re - construction" of notes . "RAW & DYSFUNCTIONAL" , yeah , that's my motto !

[@diegofreire537]

I love that wah wah guitar!

[@williesweet8332]

I'm young, and part of Miles Davis's early 70's audience.

[@DimestoreLiam]

Been listening to both nonstop for weeks, 'cause I was re-reading Paul Tingen's 'Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991', which is also why I was watching/listening to this. Great book, incidentally- you might want to check it out if you haven't already... Thanx for the tip, tho'- it would have been quite useful if I had not already done so.

[@contactkeithstack]

Paul Snider when he plays like this the band never feels like a back drop - he sounds like he's making an exclamation or a proclamation or a calling that totally involves the band. And he plays so concise and cleanly that it gives you the feeling he's translating the energy into a statement. He really does remind you of a sorcerer like the album says.

[@davidhall9569]

Back in the day with a large dose of LSD, Pangaea was my go-to album. A life changer.

[@friendofbeaver6636]

Never seen this combo before. Wonderful! Looking for more. Pete Cosey tears that guitar up with the spirit of Dolhpy!

[@bickerstaffe1]

...great close up photography!

[@bickerstaffe1]

...and he always gives his sidemen room to express themselves...

[@bobriedinger5287]

Wow! This is a find! Now filed in "Favorites." (Ps. Michael Henderson and Mtume also deserve some propers!)

[@ImanSpaargaren]

what an energy! mind-blowing!

[@flame-sky7148]

From another planet, the energy, the force the moja.

[@elianegomes8150]

Nada mais sublime q isso! 73 é o bicho!

[@bmuhamad]

I've read a couple guys hated Al Foster's "dirty ride cymbal".. They must be trippin'. It's the perfect foil for Mtume's runs...

[@MzKlara]

It's satisfying to listen to, I love it.

[@bickerstaffe1]

Pete is blisterin'!!!

[@jamesarline5664]

The birth of fusion or part of, it but it started here, I'm so glad it did.thanks Miles. ]

[@feyer100]

amazing! great! cool!!! this live version is simple the best!!! (in my opinion)

[@FreetoSessions]

Thank you very much!!!!!!

[@dwightchaplin9767]

In his Zone, Miles doing what he did Best

[@wayneelmoreevysdad1774]

how did they ever put out this fire!!! it would be virtually impossible to dance to this!!!....lolol!!!

[@dirtmmor]

this looks ans sound like a giant monster, and every musician is a part of it, mouth, fangs, tail, foot. and it's fucking coming to you

[@markcenci8000]

Around this time I heard this band at Paul’s Mall in Boston. Miles led the band through the audience to the stage and made wise cracks about us as he passed by cracking up the band. He was wearing a skin tight jacket that he tried to remove after playing for a while. The pony tail tech guy in the first frames was crawling around the stage doing tech stuff. He got up and offered to help Miles peal off the jacket. Miles threw him a jab that just missed his face. I’ve wondered since if that was a choreographed stage antic joke or a real thing.

[@stevemack4643]

I was at that show. I sat at a table right in front of Miles. Close enough that when he emptied his spit valve it just missed my shoe.

[@HidenoriIshibe]

R.I.P. Pete Cosey!

[@nicolasdub]

great great live!!

[@paulklein4096]

Sooo glad he ditched the Jarrett - Airto line-up. That was 1970 and sounds like 1970. This is from 1973 and sounds like a year that is yet to arrive.

[@Kohntarkosz]

Had to believe the jazz snobs considered this "selling out".

[@williesweet8332]

Inimitable and perfect.

[@lanceash]

Pete Cosey. Nobody else played like that.

[@totumsimul3511]

Il y a une violence, une radicalité prodigieuse que Miles ne récupéra jamais par la suite. C'est presque du happening, quand on voit la présence de Miles, son emprise sur la section rythmique, comment il fixe le guitariste rythmique quand le groove est lancé... On peut le dire, c'est une musique virile au sens fort!

[@monsterjazzlicks]

Wow, Miles is dressed so amazingly hip and smart !!

[@Akumalive]

its nothing but a Rush right to the jugular !!

[@danieljrossofficialmusic]

Hell yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@WindsOfNeptune]

Pete Cosey has passed on.... honor his memory by checking his psych freak-out solo at 9:45

[@warvandal3443]

Cosey has a high action - scalloped neck maybe? dunno..... This takes us to emerging from the primeval soup. This is how it was. Tubular bottom feeders by the ocean hot vents

[@skelly2542]

Miles Davis was a time traveler change my mind

[@CatDad6392]

A cosmic Acid Trip without the acid this is freaking intense😮😮

[@ogrebattle22763]

Miles was just Miles he wasn't about to let anyone or anybody tell him what he could or couldn't do musically... I agree with you I believe Miles was trying to grab hold of the younger audience -

[@JAZZCLASS70]

suuuuuuuuper

[@tolearnfear3467]

Damn

[@Kohntarkosz]

Yeah, that's definitely true. But the thing was that generally, "selling out" involves delivering "singles" and "hooks" and stuff that would be likely to be played on AM radio. In that context, the early 70's Miles records were anything BUT "selling out", even if Miles really was looking for "a younger audience".

[@dkorleone]

Selling out? What a joke. Anyone who would say that about this music cannot possibly have a clue or an ear for that matter.

[@Kohntarkosz]

@@dkorleone The very fact that he was using electric keyboards, Fender bass, and rock and funk oriented guitars and rhythms was enough for the snobs to consider him a sell out. That's how those people felt. I think it's how some of them still feel (Stanley Crouch for sure). They think everything that happened in jazz after about 1960 was a mistake.

[@tocandoenlacalle2024]

vibe

[@peetminer]

check out pangaea and agharta

[@MrMusicman456]

3:34 that is NOT Reggie Lucas :P

[@yurei8]

Correct, it's Pete Cosey

[@creswellformey7654]

Thank you! I was about to say! And RIP to Mr. Lucas.

[@Cnoted33]

Supernatural

[@QCX84]

This music birthed genres and then some... When Miles name pop up on the screen @ 5:25, His expression is like, "No Shit." ...

[@alphonsepetitboudu6552]

Miles, what am I supposed to do in a Funk band with all this Black guys while I am a White, Jewish, Jazz saxophonist? People like to see You fingers moving fast on the saxophone, Dave.

[@ilovetomorrow]

..👍

[@gypsycatcher]

9:34

[@Akumalive]

Im agree, its a fucking monster chasing you...and theres no scape

[@dockbanjo8952]

this is whats up

[@karloarsch1579]

When they played this concert, I was only 9 years old, they would not let me in...!

[@derris3989]

thats a damn shame

[@Dolorousness]

This transcendent roaring would have been apposite music to accompany the major skirmish in Book V of Paradise Lost.

[@BennyGaberMusic]

Well said magma fan :)

[@jiyujizai]

🌱🌸💙😃

[@alfredomaioti9207]

Happy byrtday

[@doom20992004]

Look 11.04: it's only music that counts !

[@horusaps]

the dogs ballacks init though mush?

[@Rambo29]

what kind of amp was Pete Cosey using?

[@shishyupal]

The bass sounds and energy seems to fade out when Miles starts playing. Was there a sound engineering problem ? Dave and Miles look behind them as if something's wrong...

[@kevinr.3542]

He had a rule which I'm sure influenced this change in sound. When he solod he wanted people to play relatively straight and less adventurous. But during the other solos they were allowed to stretch out and get as weird as they wanted. so there was always a kind of reset when miles comes back in. Harder to notice during this period where everything sounds pretty out there. But it's really obvious with his second quintet with Tony Williams, Wayne shorter, Herbiie, etc. When miles solos it was straight ahead jazz pretty much just like his first quintet, but once the other guys started their solos it started getting closer to this abstract free sounding jazz.

[@seerskater]

hahaha 7:08 the people are just like what the fuck...

[@countycricklewood]

Percussion and drummer so in sync

[@kenmeyer6786]

Mtume percussion, Al Foster drums.

[@Sputnik010010]

This song is in any album of Miles?

[@ursulavasquezkhan8006]

Pangaea

[@graehamguerin5868]

Dark magus, agharta

[@garyfox7558]

@@graehamguerin5868 not in agharta

[@diegofreire537]

I think that this particular song is not in any Miles album. I only found something alike in the first song of Dark magus album, which is called Moja... that song is like this but faster

[@nickmastro6870]

Turnaroundphrase is from the beginning of Pangea

[@Gashy42]

why is Miles blowing straight down into the ground? it's like he literally can't get it up.

[@stevemack4643]

It's said that he played like that because the sound of his horn reflected off the floor and so he could hear it. Probably a habit developed before monitors were used on stage.

[@岩佐浩章-o2q]

i prefer 60s miles. this is too late,,too electric!

[@skillet6870]

Wah Wah pedal. I'm out!

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Jam music, nothing less and nothing more. Comments are typically slavish. I saw his bands during that period half a dozen times. Not much variation.

[@VoodooKush]

I run Marathons and pound heavy weights to this music all day everyday. Doesn't bother me at all! Too bad I couldn't take you spot to record them.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

@@VoodooKush I can understand how it's good background for working out.

[@olivierdrouin2701]

Je suis d accord avec vous , c était triste ; raison de plus pour vénérer les deuxièmes parties de Agartha et encore plus Pangaea