Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue

00:00:25 With music you want to penetrate the listener.

00:02:35 Miles, what are you gonna open with now...

00:04:50 So I asked him, I says...

00:05:50 And then Miles threw one of these in front of me.

00:07:47 Bitches Brew was the album that when I fiirst heard it...

00:09:01 In fact I completely altered my consciousness to try to like it.

00:09:57 and jump without a parachute.

00:11:46 So he got rid of the ltalian suits, and he started wearing...

00:28:23 and it becomes the top selling jazz record of all time at the time.

00:29:13 and "We shall overcome", which was a...

00:30:38 People are afraid that they can't make that change.

00:31:35 whether they sound weird to people or not.

00:32:58 But in reality, electricity is life itself...

00:34:12 and then he would just set a mood.

00:35:27 But how you do that can change tremendously from...

00:36:49 The drummer was the anchor...

00:38:02 And I know he liked it. Even though he never told me...

00:39:17 "Are you in a trance?" That's a good question.

00:40:37 I wasn't bringing music to the band, I wasn't bringing...

00:41:49 If you see a band who's working on this thing...

00:42:38 And when I heard that I thought, "This is compressed into this one set."

01:18:47 doing a portrait of him, which I frequently do when...

01:20:14 and I'll take you to a different place."

01:26:52 to me, is what Miles' was about.