Miles Davis Blindfold Test

[Guy Berger]

Reading these blindfold tests makes me grateful that Miles's taste in creating in his own music was far, far better than that in judging the music of others.

[cih]

I love that version of Caravan (though I played it too many times and never want to hear it again)

Edited July 18, 2012 by cih

[BERIGAN]

My favorite Miles BFT comment is on this one:

http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_2.html

Re: Buddy Colette, he says: "all those white tenor players sound alike to me"

+ two more

http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_1.html

http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_4.html

He really digs Electric Flag on the last one.

Thanks for the links to the other tests...

Glad to see in test 4, Leonard told him a few times he was wrong...as much as I like the BFT's, (Just read a Coltrane one on the web before looking here to see what was posted) I so wanted to hear what "they" thought after finding out they were wrong, sometimes way wrong on a test. Wonder why there weren't more after test conversations?

[RiRiIII]

I like this one:

"As for Gilberto, he could read a newspaper and sound good! I'll give that one five stars."

Edited February 24, 2014 by Alexandros

[danasgoodstuff]

Read that when it happened. At every point, Miles is right and wrong.

Yes, but never in doubt!

[paul secor]

When I read these blindfold tests back in the day, I felt that Miles' insecurities sometimes slipped through the arrogant mask that he wore.