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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Miles Davis-"Bitches Brew" (1970)

Conceived as an album full of jazz rock, Miles Davis used for the first time in a generalized way the electric instruments and the harmonic and rhythmic structures of rock to create the album "Bitches Brew"
Although already in his previous "In A Silent Way" Davis had begun to introduce the necessary elements to electrify his sound, it would not be until this album when he printed to his music what they would later call jazz rock.
For this new album Davis surrounded himself with three great keyboardists such as Joe Zawinul, Larry Young and Chick Corea, in addition to Dave Holland on bass, Jack deJohnette and Lenny White on drums, Wayne Shorter on sax and John McLaughlin on guitar among others musicians.
However, it is an album that transmits music that is difficult to assimilate due to its structural complexity and the strange rhythm section for that time, which consisted of two bassists, three drummers, two or three pianists and a percussionist all playing at the same time.
Even so "Bitches Brew" was the first Miles Davis album to get a gold record, achieving a fourth place on the North American charts and selling more than a million copies.

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