It was 1969; and Miles Davis; prince of cool; was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians; an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction; just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet-called The Lost Band-with Wayne Shorter; Chick Corea; Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette; he went into the studio with musicians like frighteningly talented guitarist John McLaughlin; and soulful Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul. Working with his essential producer; Teo Macero; Miles set a cauldron of ideas loose while the tapes rolled. At the end; there was the newly minted Prince of Darkness; a completely new way forward for jazz and rock; and the endless brilliance and depth of Bitches Brew.Bitches Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two; it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves; the album rejects both jazz and rock for an entirely different idea of how music can be made.
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