Originally Posted by
IberianAlex
Well, that video is more just a general parody on the kind of music Miles was making with his second quintet and onwards, when he started moving away from a hard bop sound into more free jazz territory (not strictly "free", but doing things like playing the correct number of measures for the form but not following the changes, or weird, harmonically ambitious things like playing a C#-D-E "cluster" voicing over an F bass, just setting up a "mood" rather than progressing through some obvious sequences, etc etc, jazz nerd shit, I won't bore you any further, haha)
There isn't really a specific lick that video is referencing, but if you listen to this you should get an idea for the kind of thing he is making fun of, 1:30 ish:
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