Miles Davis - John Coltrane. Miles Davis & John Coltrane - Kind of blue. John Coltrane & Miles Davis "So What"(1959) Miles Davis. The Official Miles Davis Site. Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches. So What by.Miles Davis. Miles Davis - All Blues (1/2) So What - Jonh Coltrane and Miles Davis. Miles Davis - All Blues (2/2) Miles Davis Interviews. By Leonard Feather Down Beat Volume 58 No. 12, December 1991, p.69 first published by Down Beat, June 1964 'You have to think when you play; you have to help each other - you just can't play for yourself. You've got to play with whomever you're playing. If I'm playing with Basie, I'm going to try to help what he's doing - that particular feeling.' Miles Davis is unusually selective in his listening habits.
This attitude should not be interpreted as reflecting any general misanthropy. He was in a perfectly good mood on the day of the interview reproduced below; it just happened that the records selected did not, for the most part, make much of an impression. Clark Terry, for example, is an old friend and idol of Davis' from St. Davis does not have an automatic tendency to want to put everything down, as an inspection of his earlier Blindfold Tests will confirm (DB, Sept. 21, 1955 and Aug. 7, 1958). The Records What's that supposed to be? Rate it? Clark Terry, right? The piano player's sad.