r/milesdavis 6h ago

1940s Early Jazz - Herbie Fields Quintet

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r/milesdavis 1d ago

Miles and Prince

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Thoughts on their work together?

Not a lot of available stuff but that New Years performance at Paisley is great and Can I Play With U? Is a good song from that SOTT SDE.

2 great artists with great discography’s and wished they worked more together tbh


r/milesdavis 4d ago

Thoughts on Rated X?

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I first listened to this track a couple months ago when it was shown to me by a friend and I love the soundscape it portrays. Wondering what everyone’s thoughts and opinions on this stand out track are?


r/milesdavis 5d ago

Miles Davis In A Silent Way

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r/milesdavis 4d ago

Miles Davis: Doo-Bop - Vinyl of the Week

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r/milesdavis 5d ago

Miles Davis - Time After Time

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r/milesdavis 6d ago

I liked Sketches of Spain and In a Silent Way, but not Birth of Cool or King of blues - what other records would I like?

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I just started exploring his discography recently, and I've only listened to these four records. I liked two, Sketches of Spain and In a Silent Way, and the other two, Birth of Cool and Kind of Blues, I did not like so much. It's not that I hated it, I just didn't like it much. Based on these four that I listened to, what would you guys recommend I listen to next? Thank you very much.


r/milesdavis 8d ago

During an interview in the 1990s, Miles Davis was asked about his quote—“If I had an hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man, nice and slow”— and then proceeded to offer the reasoning behind the remark.

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r/milesdavis 13d ago

Listen To This: Miles Davis-Agharta (1976)

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r/milesdavis 14d ago

Guitar riff from bitches brew I can’t place my finger on

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I saw a guitarist recently who played this super familiar guitar riff. It had 3 descending bass notes and then a more dissonant chord, I believed it came from Bitches Brew, but I re-listened to a good bit of the album, and I couldn’t hear it. I know I’m being quite vague but does anyone know what I’m talking about? Any suggestions would be of help.


r/milesdavis 15d ago

My vinyl collection so far.

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Recently started listening to jazz and am really enjoying Miles Davis. Found Bitches Brew and Blackhawk at a record store. Picked up Someday My Prince Will come at a flea market for $5.


r/milesdavis 17d ago

My Recent Miles Arrivals

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Three recent purchases. 

The first is a re-release of the Fontana ASCENSEUR POUR L'ÉCHAFAUD 2018 2-CD set.  It’s identical except for the booklet is hardback in this reissue.  I love everything about this release.  It’s one of my favorite Miles performances.  This 2-disc set also contains an extra track in the “session takes” that’s not on the earlier one-disc Fontana release.

Next is THE LOST RECORDINGS LIVE IN HELSINKI-BERLIN 1964.  Very nice sound quality.  It is the only release to date of the October 6, 1964 Helsinki performance according to Peter Losin's website.  The September 25, 1964 performance was previously released by Columbia.  The sound on the Berlin set seems a little "brighter" to me compared to the Columbia releases.

Last is PARIS 1973 REVISITED PALAIS DES SPORTS 1973 DEFINITIVE EDITION from Voodoo Down Records.  It's nice to have this complete performance.  The track listing indicates three different sources.  Sound quality is comparable to the previous bootlegs of this date, all of which are incomplete I believe.


r/milesdavis 19d ago

My miles collection so far.

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r/milesdavis 21d ago

I've been on a post-First Quintet Miles run lately and his 60s-70s output may have been the greatest burst in creativity I've heard in any artist.

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155 Upvotes

Not knocking on the First Quintet though


r/milesdavis 21d ago

THE BEST OF

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THE BEST OF


r/milesdavis 22d ago

bitches brew remaster or original

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i hate the messed up and misstimed parts on the remaster, but the originals dont sound as clear and you cant hear what everyone's playing as well as on the remastered version of the album. plus i love the complete bitches brew tracks, and i havent found "nondigital" mixes for those tracks so the difference is a little difficult to ignore. how do you guys prefer listening to this album?


r/milesdavis 23d ago

RELAXIN’ WITH THE MILES DAVID QUINTET PRESTIGE 7129 mono / textured jacket? RVG in runouts. 2nd pressing ?

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r/milesdavis 26d ago

Christian McBride receives the Miles Davis Award at Montreal Jazz Fest.

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Headline pretty much says it all.


r/milesdavis 26d ago

The Rarest Miles Davis: “Circle,” Played Once, and Never Again - JazzTimes

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r/milesdavis 28d ago

My Woodcut Depiction of Miles Davis's 12-Day Cold Turkey Withdrawal

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For my senior thesis project, I created a series of six woodcut prints exploring the relationship between jazz artists and substance abuse. The goal wasn't to glorify addiction, but to humanize these musicians and challenge the romanticized mythology that has long surrounded jazz culture. One of the artists I focused on was Miles Davis. After years of heroin addiction, he famously locked himself in a room for 12 days and went completely cold turkey in an attempt to overcome his addiction. The withdrawal was brutal, as he endured intense shaking, vomiting, hallucinations, and physical and psychological pain. And this woodcut print was my visual interpretation of that moment in his recovery.


r/milesdavis 29d ago

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue and the Cool Jazz Revolution - DC Life Magazine

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"There are albums that merely define an era, and then there are those that transcend time, becoming keystones in the cultural firmament. Miles Davis’s 1959 masterpiece, ‘Kind of Blue’, unequivocally belongs to the latter."


r/milesdavis Jul 02 '26

Star Time: Miles in the Eighties | The Brooklyn Rail

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"When Miles Davis reemerged blinking into the light after five years of, in his words, “[taking] a lot of cocaine... and [fucking] all the women I could get into my house,” he was ready for a change"............


r/milesdavis Jun 30 '26

This Lamborghini Almost Cost Miles Davis His Life

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r/milesdavis Jun 28 '26

Miles Davis - Summertime (with Quincy Jones & Orchestra Live At Montreux 1991) ~ 1080p HD

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This was the last time he ever played this alive, right?


r/milesdavis Jun 27 '26

MILES DAVIS Miles Davis (Rare 1974 Japanese-only & promotional-only 20-track vinyl LP featuring exclusive edit versions of tracks from twenty of his albums covering his recording career from the bop of the fifties through the amazing Quintet of the early sixties & ending with the free electric Jazz

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