"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. I was eighteen years old and had just graduated from Lincoln High School. It was just across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois.

When I heard Diz and Bird in B's band, I said, "What? What is this!?" Man, that shit was so terrible it was scary. I mean, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, Buddy Anderson, Gene Ammons. Lucky Thompson, and Art Blakey all together in one band and not to mention B: Billy Eckstine himself.

It was a motherfucker.

Man, that shit was all up in my body.

Music all up in my body, and that's what I wanted to hear.

The way that band was playing musict hat was all I wanted to hear.

It was something.And me up there playing with them."

- Miles Davis