Chords for miles1

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_ _ _ _ If you know anything about music, you know Miles Davis talks better than just about anyone when he has a trumpet on his lips.
Spend some time with him and you begin to realize he talks pretty good even without a trumpet.
He's no cheerful Louis Armstrong or suave Benny Goodman.
He can be antisocial.
But as we said when we first aired this segment last November, for Miles, it is the music that counts more than the audience.
Would you be a musician if nobody ever heard you? Sure.
Why?
Because I love music.
It's in my head.
I can't get it off.
Do you listen?
Yeah.
You're hearing it yourself?
I hear it now.
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What he hears and then translates into something other people can hear too is still changing.
This was his latest [Bb] style at a concert in Strasbourg, [G] France last summer.
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[D] _ _ At 63, [Gm] he's playing and looking [G] more like an innovative rock star than like Bix Beiderbecke or even his own early smooth self.
_ [D] _ _ [G] But Beiderbecke and Goodman and all the good ones were innovators in their day and most [Dm] knowledgeable people [G] approve of Davis' energetic experiments.
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_ _ [Am] _ Are black [C] musicians _ [B] genetically better than white musicians?
Get me in trouble.
Not [Bb] better.
But [Db] they play different.
_ White musicians seem to lag [Bb] behind the beat.
_ _ [N] I don't know why.
Does black musicians hurt more?
What do you mean hurt more?
I mean is it_
As you say, it's not that cliche.
It's not that easy to say that because you came out of slavery you play on the beat.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
[Bbm] I have nothing to do with it.
_ [Eb] _ _ Alright.
I told a student teacher of mine like that [Dm] in Juilliard.
_ [Gb] She started talking about, _ well you know, black people were [N] _
despondent at night and they just_
And they say that's where the blues came from.
So I raised my hand and I said, listen, _ my father's rich, my mama's good looking, right?
And I can play the blues.
I never suffer.
And don't intend [G] to suffer. _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ Look at and listen to Miles Davis 30 years ago. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ This is a great band of the [Dm] time with Miles and saxophonist John Coltrane.
One of the best of the musicians who rose [G] with Miles.
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By the Coltrane era, [D] Davis had been in New York for 13 years out of East [E] St.
Louis, Illinois.
Had [Em] played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
[A] Had studied at Juilliard.
Was a valued associate of the musicians [B] who jammed in the little clubs on [Bb] 52nd Street.
He was [Bbm] the definition, in person and musically, of what we then [Bb] called cool. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] I haven't heard myself play in the _ 1940s or 50s _ in 40 years. _ _
You know, I haven't gone back [Dm] to listen to myself again. _ _
_ But _ it might have a little more resonance there, you know, a little more fullness and brighter.
I learned a lot.
_ When I was 30, I [D] _
_ used to try [Bb] a lot of things.
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But since they have synthesizers and [B] electric instruments, you can hear those better than acoustic.
_ So musicians learn a lot faster [Ab] now.
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_ _ _ [G] For Miles, [C] learning and [Eb] change have been positive [A] values.
He made this video [Ab] clip and the album in 1986 and it won a [D] Grammy.
His [G] complex and sometimes [Eb] sullen attitude toward pests like [Db] reporters and critics
has sometimes made [G] him seem to be [D] hard to get along with for the sake of being hard to get along with.
[G] But the great [Eb] consistency of his life [G] has been the trumpet.
[E] While he's gone from jazz to [G] rock and Brooks Brothers to flash, the trumpet is the same.
As he noted, he hears it even when he's talking to a visitor.
And it [E] speaks for him when he can't [D] explain himself. _ _
_ You have to make it _ _ _ _ like that.
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_ _ It's not that easy.
You like playing with a mute.
_ [F] That's called a mute, right?
You like that?
Yeah.
Why?
It sounds human.
[B] Human?
Yeah, it sounds like [D] a voice. _
Sometimes I [F] can get it to sound [E] like _ _ [G]
another voice.
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A lot of your _ colleagues died _
[Db] from drugs, from heroin.
You had a heroin habit.
You kicked it cold turkey and [G] went on.
[Dm] How did you stop? _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ I _ _ _ _ looked in the [Db] mirror one day and I just stopped.
_ _ I went out to my father's place.
He had a couple under there, guess who's playing.
_ _ And I went out and _ [B] he had two [Db] compartments like this, I guess.
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_ So I went in one of them and locked the door.
[Bb] I stayed there for about _ five days before I could get up and walk.
_ _ _ _ [N] And that was it.
That did it?
Every day does it.
I'm still a drug addict.
If I use drugs.
It's like getting an alcohol.
But every day it [D] gets better.
Every day.
_ [B] Then gradually it leaves your head. _ _
While you were on, while you had the habit.
You did a lot of bad things.
Like what?
_ You said you were pimping for a while.
Is that bad?
_ _ Is that bad?
You're right, I made a judgmental word [D] and I shouldn't.
You did a lot of things, different [N] things.
Pimping?
Listen.
Girls used to come to see me, right?
_ Whores, prostitutes, call girls.
I didn't have to make love to them.
They wanted me to take them out.
_ All [Bb] I would do is say, I don't have any money.
If you [Gb] want me to take you out.
So they gave me a [B] couple hundred dollars.
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_ [D] A night. _ _ _ _
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