Interviewer asking Miles Davis if black musicians are genetically better than white musicians.

Miles Dewey Davis was a jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion. LEGACY: 🎺Miles Ahead, a biopic about Davis’ life premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2015, directed by and starring Don Cheadle as Davis. The film also features Emayatzy Corinealdi as Frances Taylor, and a cast including Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Keith Stanfield. 🎺Miles Davis is regarded as one of the most innovative, influential and respected figures in the history of music. He has been described as “one of the great innovators in jazz”. 🎺The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll noted "Miles Davis played a crucial and inevitably controversial role in every major development in jazz since the mid-'40s, and no other jazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock. Miles Davis was the most widely recognized jazz musician of his era, an outspoken social critic and an arbiter of style—in attitude and fashion—as well as music". 🎺His album Kind of Blue is the best-selling album in the history of jazz music. 🎺On November 5, 2009, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan sponsored a measure in the United States House of Representatives to recognize and commemorate the album on its 50th anniversary. The measure also affirms jazz as a national treasure and "encourages the United States government to preserve and advance the art form of jazz music." It passed, unanimously, with a vote of 409–0 on December 15, 2009. 🎺In 1986, the New England Conservatory awarded Miles Davis an Honorary Doctorate for his extraordinary contributions to music. 🎺Since 1960 the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) has honored him with eight Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and three Grammy Hall of Fame Awards. 🎺In 2010, Moldejazz premiered a play called Driving Miles, which focused on a landmark concert Davis performed in Molde, Norway, in 1984. 🎺In Kielce, Poland, a statue of Miles Davis was built. HIS INFLUENCE: As an innovative bandleader and composer, Miles Davis has influenced many notable musicians and bands from diverse genres. Many well-known musicians rose to prominence as members of Davis's ensembles, including: saxophonists Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, George Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Dave Liebman, Branford Marsalis and Kenny Garrett; trombonist J. J. Johnson; pianists Horace Silver, Red Garland, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and Kei Akagi; guitarists John McLaughlin, Pete Cosey, John Scofield and Mike Stern; bassists Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Marcus Miller and Darryl Jones; and drummers Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Cobb, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, and Al Foster. Miles' influence on the people who played with him has been described by music writer and author Christopher Smith as follows: "Miles Davis' artistic interest was in the creation and manipulation of ritual space, in which gestures could be endowed with symbolic power sufficient to form a functional communicative, and hence musical, vocabulary. [...] Miles' performance tradition emphasized orality and the transmission of information and artistic insight from individual to individual. His position in that tradition, and his personality, talents, and artistic interests, impelled him to pursue a uniquely individual solution to the problems and the experiential possibilities of improvised performance." His approach, owing largely to the African American performance tradition that focused on individual expression, emphatic interaction, and creative response to shifting contents, had a profound impact on generations of jazz musicians.

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Do they hurt more? That question is weird. So hurting makes them sing better. That thought process is unreal

The interviewer got some issues

Reminds me of this interview when Serena William's dad snapped at the reporter who was questioning her about her HIGH CONFIDENCE 😳👇🏼 sneaky 🐀

@FreeBlckThought Damn! I really wanna see where that "lag behind the beat" thought was going.

🤣🤣🤣 Interviewer is wild!!! I realize I haven't watched the whole thing but DAMN SON. It's really easy. Some people are born with rhythm. Some people have to learn it. Some never do. Some never can. 🤣🤣🤣

Non-white ppl are simply more in tune with nature and the universe. You can most certainly attribute that to melanin. Darker skin absorbs all of the energies, not just solar energy.

“Because you came out of slavery you played on the beat” this man came prepared with the foolery

Over the years, I’ve become more and more appreciative of Miles Davis. Followed closely by John Coltrane. They’re different dudes, but musical masters nonetheless.

The interviewer could have asked a better question following the “white musician lag behind the beat more” comment but went into they hurt more nonsense