If we’re talking about groundbreaking music, this album by Miles Davis is one of the few that can hold this attribute with great pride. Bitches Brew was released on March 30, 1970, on Columbia Records as a double studio album. Bitches Brew was Davis's first gold record; it sold more than half a million copies, winning a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1971.
Like all new and unconventional things, it was rejected by the majority of the jazz audiences and critics upon its release. Now it’s considered a true classic and a major influence of the music to come in the 70’s. It may have been criticized by the “jazz-men”, but it brought this music to a wider audience, especially to the rocker’s side of the music spectrum. It is music that emphasizes the incredible interplay between the musicians (John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, to name just few of the legends that play on this material), considering that there was no written chords, arrangements or melodies – only the pure satisfaction of improvising over a particular mood and ambiance. Bitches Brew is a cornerstone of modern music and arouses the senses in ways hardly imaginable even nowadays. One of the best pieces of sonic experience ever recorded. Make yourself comfortable, put down the lights and go boldly where a lot of people have gone before!
