Miles '55 offers a deeper look at 1955, the year in which jazz icon Miles Davis formed his first great quintet (John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones) and established his influential sound.
In five albums stretching over four years, Smith and the Cosmic Echoes stretched the fusion aesthetic to embrace post-bop modal and spiritual jazz and funk.
The Epic is the story of Kamasi Washington and the Next Step and their mission: to remove jazz from the shelf of relics and make it new, unexpected, and dangerous again.
This 4xLP box set contains four sets of recordings from the fall of 1964, including live sets at Copenhagen's Jazzhus Montmartre and a VARA Radio session in The Netherlands.
The album's sound is a blend of industrial, gothic, electronic, and rock influences, with a touch of ambient feel, making it stand out from the typical formulaic music of the time.