Bitches Brew [Vinyl]

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew [Vinyl]

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Artist: Miles Davis
Edition: Vinyl
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:

Music CD 1

Pharaoh's Dance
Bitches Brew

Music CD 2

Spanish Key
John McLaughlin
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
Sanctuary
Feio [*]

Music reviews of Bitches Brew [Vinyl]

Music Review: Food For Thought
Rating: 5 Stars

I've heard it said before that the artist asks questions; so those who are looking for definite answers, in a work of art, probably will never find it. Miles Davis' Bitches Brew is no exception, there are no clearly defined answers.

This album has a dark mystique to it; ritualist rhythms, dynamic explosions of sound, and textures ranging the spectrum from harsh to mellow. These musicians are tapping into the black, primeval caverns of the subconscious mind. Jumping from thought to thought; note to note, just following the next idea to where it takes them. Vibes are created rather than "true" music. If your listening to this album to have a tune you can hum later on, then this is not your type of music.

I have heard many say they "don't get this album" or "do". In my opinion there is nothing really to "get". It just is, what it is. It creates a series of sounds and moods to react to. Living moment to moment. No, you do not need to develop your musical palette to listen to this album, you just listen to it.

I like this album a lot and listen to it quite frequently. The rhythms are extremely infectious. The dynamic range builds and falls and then bursts out of the silence. The textural qualities diverse; screechy saxophone to smooth trumpet (or vis versa at times). The energies trading between electric and vibrant to dark and foggy; fluctuating between chaos and order. I recommend listening to this album. You may love it, you may hate it. But like your mom used to say about new foods, "How do you know if you never try it?"

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Description of Bitches Brew [Vinyl]

2008 Japanese Blu-Spec CD pressing of this classic album. The Blue Spec format takes Blu-ray disc technology to create CD's which are compatible with normal CD players but provides ultra high quality sound. Sony.

The revolution was recorded: in 1969 Bitches Brew sent a shiver through a country already quaking. It was a recording whose very sound, production methods, album-cover art, and two-LP length all signaled that jazz could never be the same. Over three days anger, confusion, and exhilaration had reigned in the studio, and the sonic themes, scraps, grooves, and sheer will and emotion that resulted were percolated and edited into an astonishingly organic work. This Miles Davis wasn't merely presenting a simple hybrid like jazz-rock, but a new way of thinking about improvisation and the studio. And with this two-CD reissue (actually, this set is a reissue of the original set plus one track, perfect for the fan who's not so overwhelmed as to need the four-CD Complete Bitches Brew box), the murk of the original recording is lifted. The instruments newly defined and brightened, the dark energy of the original comes through as if it were all fresh. Joe Zawinul and Bennie Maupin's roles in the mix have been especially clarified. With a bonus track of "Feio"--a Wayne Shorter composition recorded five months later that serves both as a warm-down for Bitches Brew and a promise of Weather Report to come--this is crucial listening. --John F. Szwed

Bitches Brew was a shot across the bow of jazz insularity, and, much like the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper before it, it drew upon elements both inside and outside the mainstream to fashion an avant-garde, yet extremely influential, take on popular music's relation to modernism, and vice versa. As such, Miles Davis became a lightning rod for jazz's transformation (or corruption as some diehards insist), and by mixing the fundamental elements of collective improvisation with fulminating dance rhythms, psychedelic electric textures, polytonal harmonies and a freely inflected brand of blues phrasing (as reflected in his own Kind of Blue-brand of modalism and the parallel directions of Hendrix, Cream, Sly Stone, James Brown, and Marvin Gaye), Davis signaled a sea-change in jazz. However, producer Teo Macero's spooky, compressed mix tends to suck all the air out of the room, emphasizing the often static nature of Harvey Brooks's bedrock Fender bass heartbeats, while obscuring the complex polytonal/polyrhythmic web of volatile harmonies, colliding cross-rhythms and contrasting melodic lines. Bitches Brew is a modern jazz masterpiece screaming for a critical reassessment (and a re-mix), but nothing can obscure the crafty tension and release of Davis's turn over a "Sex Machine"-styled ostinato on "Spanish Key," nor the spatial collective "&mysterioso" and epic breadth of the title tune. --Chip Stern

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