Bitches Brew

Bitches Brew (1970) is an album of Jazz-rock'n'roll Compositeur and Trompettiste of American Jazz Miles Davis. It had a Grammy Award and was certified " Disc of or".

Bitches Brew was recorded in three days (19 August 21st, 1969). It incorporates several electrified instruments, such as the piano and the guitar, and deviates from the usual rates/rhythms of the traditional Jazz, adopting a new style makes improvisations influenced by the music Funk.

With the Hot Rats of Frank Zappa (recorded at the same time, but left before), this album inaugurates the style Jazz-rock'n'roll, and meets a great public success, as well at the rockers as the jazzmen, even if it has in its time rejected not badly of amateurs of traditional jazz.

Bitches Brew was a business success, more than one half million of sold specimens, it is with Kind off Blue the best sale of disc of Jazz.

General presentation

The album was diffused initially in the form of a double LP. In 1998, it was repeated out of box of four CD, also including/understanding the sessions in studio which were made later on until February 1970.

Bitches Brew was revolving in the jazz music, a new musical movement started, inspired by Miles Davis, and who will be continued later by her pupils and musicians: Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul and John McLaughlin. The small pocket of the album was made by the painter Mati Klarwein, who had already made the small pocket of the album Abraxas of the rock group Santana.

The recording

According to her practice, Miles Davis called musicians to take part in the recording of this album, little time before the recording and with a minimum of repetition, the musicians having little or not ideas on what they were going to play.

Miles Davis gave her instructions before and during the recording, giving the tempo and indicating when the musicians were to play a solo.

Davis composed the majority of the titles, except for two important pieces, " Pharaoh' S Dance" , composed by Joe Zawinul and the ballade " Sanctuary" , composed by Wayne Shorter. In a surprising way, the album gives two successive catches of " Sanctuary".

Contrary to the style " cool" who characterized it up to now, Miles Davis plays here in an aggressive way, in the high register of his trumpet, for example in " Miles Runs the Voodoo Down".

Davis does not use the usual swing with the Jazz, and makes play Funk, with the manner of James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone, by her rhythm section.

It also innovated while making simultaneously play several pianists, beaters and guitarists basic at the same time, and especially by using electric pianos and low guitars.

The length of the played pieces was also unusual in the jazz, only one piece is played on each face 1 and 2 of the first disc.

Titles of the album

Disc 1

Face 1
  1. " Pharaoh' S Dance" (20: 06) (Joe Zawinul)
Face 2
  1. " Bitches Brew" (27: 00) (Mr. Davis)

Disc 2

Face 3
  1. " Spanish Key" (17: 34) (Mr. Davis)
  2. " John McLaughlin" (04: 26) (Mr. Davis)
Face 4
  1. " Miles Runs The Voodoo Down" (14: 04) (Mr. Davis)
  2. " Sanctuary" (11: 01) (Wayne Shorter)

CD includes/understands moreover, " Feio" (11: 51) (Wayne Shorter).

Musicians

Production

  • Teo Macero

External bonds

  • Small pocket and infos on Bitches Brew
  • has history off jazz fusion
  • Miles Davis - The Electric Period

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