This is a Miles Davis album, if you didn't know. This is an amazing album for any fan of jazz, experimental, psychedelic rock, or, music in general. This album changed jazz music forever. After this album was released in 1969, jazz would never be the same. If you're a fan of good, and I mean actually good, not like Oasis or the White stripes shit that's out now, but real, talented music, definitely check this out.
S'definately one of the most definitive albums of that era, and i love it. I find it similar in an odd way to Hancocks Headhunters...
Yeah I know its a great album it was named by and inspired so they say..... by Miles Davis's wife at the time the great Funk/jazz singer Betty Davis(not be mistaken for the actress Bette Davis.) LOL
Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew are two totally different types of jazz though. Bitches Brew being for the more advanced jazz listener I'd say.
i love miles davis! i only own kind of blue by him but i want to get this album what ive heard is fantastic though. i need to get more of this mans work, a total visionary
I think if you're not a jazz fan now, you will think brew is garbage. If you're a casual listener, Jack Johnson is a lot easier on the ears.
Fans of Bitches Brew would also love In a Silent Way, which is more airy and ambient than BB but carries the same vibe. And I agree with the Jack Johnson recommendation. Bitches Brew is too often evoked as a good transition between rock and jazz. I've always found it to be a challenging album from both a jazz and rock perspective. Tribute to Jack Johnson on the other hand bears far more obvious Hendrix-esque blues rock influences. It is essentially funky blues rock with a veteran jazz trumpeter in the place of a young blonde rock frontman. But, anyway, hardcore fans of Bitches Brew would do well to cop the box-set that includes outtakes and rare tracks from the BB sessions--including gems like Miles' cover of David Crosby's "Guinnevere". Even better are the In a Silent Way and Jack Johnson "complete sessions" box-sets. There are lots of gorgeous tunes on the Silent Way box (in constrast to the denser and murkier jams on the BB) and the funkiest music Miles ever recorded on the JJ box.
Miles once said that the only way to achieve anything new in music was to take the best musicians around and get them to play beyond what they know. In Bitches Brew you hear Shorter, Maupin, Corea, McLaughlin, DeJohnnette, Zawinul stabbing in the dark all the way through it,having to invent a language they've never spoken before and render it flesh and blood.
