Audio CD review:
Miles Davis - Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (August 1969-February 1970)

Miles Davis - Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (August 1969-February 1970)

Band: Miles Davis Title: Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (August 1969-February 1970) Rating: Release Date: 11 May, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Pharaoh's Dance 2: Bitches Brew 3: Spanish Key 4: John McLaughlin 5: Miles Run The Voodoo Down 6: Sanctuary 7: Great Expectations 8: Orange Lady 9: Yaphet 10: Corrado 11: Trevere 12: The Big Green Serpent 13: The Little Blue Frog (Alt) 14: The Little Blue Frog (Mst) 15: Lonely Fire 16: Guinnevere 17: Feio 18: Double Image 19: Recollections 20: Take It Or Leave It 21: Double Image

Editoral Review They remain Miles Davis's most controversial recordings. These historic sessions, recorded between 1969 and 1970 and originally released as a 90-minute double LP, merged jazz and rock into the hybrid genre known as fusion. Davis, along with pianists Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Joe Zawinul; bassist Dave Holland; soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter; bass clarinetist Benny Maupin; drummers Jack DeJohnette, Billy Cobham, and Lenny White; and percussionist Airto Moreira, went electric with rock rhythms, and the rest, as they say, is history, or as some feel, the end of jazz history. Now, all of the sessions' 265 minutes are contained on this four-CD set, compiled from alternate takes, nine unreleased tracks, and selections from previously released LPs. The superb remastering reveals the spectral power of Davis's amplified, muted, and open trumpet painting on a swirling harmonic canvas created by Hancock, Corea, and Zawinul, especially on Zawinul's impressionistic "Pharoah's Dance," Shorter's elliptical "Sanctuary," and Davis's rocking "John McLaughlin. " The previously unreleased tracks, including "Yaphet," "Corrado," "Tevere," "The Big Green Serpent," and Zawinul's "Double Image," contain some interesting East Indian motifs and inventive arrangements but will probably not change anyone's mind about this well-debated period of Miles Davis's career. --Eugene Holley Jr. .. You can see a complete list of all Miles Davis discography, or go back to the Miles Davis tabs