Mike del Ferro


9 Quotes

"when he was playing one of his amazing solos and i'm trying you know i'm in there and i'm playing right in the middle of his solo i played the wrong chord a chord"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"it just sounded completely wrong it sounded like a big mistake and i did this and i went like this and i put my hands around my my my ears and miles"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"paused for a second and then he played some notes that made my chord right he made it correct which astounded me"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"i couldn't believe what i heard he miles was able to make something that was wrong into something that was right with with the power of his of the choice of notes that he made and that feeling that he had and so i couldn't play for for for about a minute"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"what i realize now is that miles didn't hear it as a mistake he heard it as something that happened"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"just an event and so that was part of the reality of what was happening at that moment"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"he felt it was his responsibility to find something that fit and he was able to do that"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"that taught me a very big lesson about not only music but about life you know we can look for the world to be as we would like it to be as individuals you know make it easy for me that idea we can look for that but i think the important thing is that we grow and the only way we can"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.
"grow is to have a mind that's open enough to be able to accept situations to be able to to experience situations as they are and turn them in to medicine turn poison into medicine take whatever situation you have and make make something constructive happen with it that's what i learned from that situation with miles"
Mike del Ferro
Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes.

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