The result of letting Miles do his own thing, and Miles letting his best crew of musicians do their own thing, was an instant classic. One of the best selling albums in the world.
Bitches Brew is a studio album by Miles Davis, originally released in 1970. It marked his continuing experimentation with electric instruments such as the electric piano and guitar in order to reject traditional jazz rhythms.
In Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud, Miles Davis worked on a soundtrack that served the dark atmosphere of the film, the subtleties of the story, and internal thoughts of the characters. Amazingly, the entire jazz soundtrack was improvised.
The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. “Mingus was something else, man,” Miles Davis wrote in his own book. “A pure genius, I loved him.”
