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The Inspiration for Miles Davis

I listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life--with my clothes on--was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St. Louis, Missouri, back in 1944.

... Anyway, I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never quite got there. I've gotten close, but not all the way there. I'm always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play every day. I still remember when I was just a kid, still wet behind the ears, hanging our with all these great musicians, my idols even until this day. Sucking in everything. Man it was something.