Harmonic convergence - Entertainment News, Music for Screens: Winter 2010, Media - Variety:Miles Davis was central to the jazz rock renaissance
By STEVE CHAGOLLAN
Miles Davis appears at the Isle of Wight fest in 1970,
the year his touchstone fusion LP 'Bitches Brew'
was released"Forty years ago, Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew'
-- recorded over three days in August 1969 and released in April 1970 -- hit the record racks. With mind-blowing cover art by Mati Klarwein (who also designed the cover of Santana's 'Abraxas'), 'Bitches Brew' signaled a dramatic departure for the restlessly creative trumpeter. Davis' first double LP arrived at a time when similar, sprawling peak statements by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix represented the height of artistic ambition.Despite its avant-garde, highly experimental nature, it was also Davis' first gold record, selling in the hundreds of thousands when his bestselling previous works, already among the most popular in jazz, sold in the 10,000-unit range. The recording, largely shaped in the studio by producer Teo Macero, also acted as a Molotov cocktail to the notion that jazz and rock could be categorized in tidy, definable camps." Sphere: Related Content
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