1970 MILES DAVIS BITCHES BREW 2 LP Psych VOODOO JAZZ

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LEGENDARY SPACE JAZZ PSYCH VOODOO 2xLP CLASSIC !                      

                    1970 ORIGINAL 360 Sound Columbia !!!            
                                  

                 MILES DAVIS

                  Bitches Brew

\                                         USA - 360 Sound Columbia Records - GP 26      

2xLp ORIGINAL 1970 sought after first pressing -- so hard to find on the original, collectible 360 sound Columbia label...

From the moment the needle slides into the groove of “Pharoah’s Dance” on Miles Davis’ landmark Bitches Brew lp, the listener is transported forty years back, and it sounds better than ever -- every listen seems to bring out some new aspect of this dense, adventurous record.

Thought by many to be the most revolutionary album in jazz history, having virtually created the genre known as jazz-rock fusion (for better or worse) and being the jazz album to most influence rock musicians, Bitches Brew is, by its very nature, mercurial. This vintage double LP included only six cuts and featured up to 12 musicians at any given time, most of whom would go on to be high-level players in their own right: Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Don Alias, Benny Maupin, Larry Young, Lenny White, and others. Originally thought to be a series of long jams locked into grooves around one or two keyboard, bass, or guitar figures, Bitches Brew is anything but. Producer Teo Macero had as much to do with the end product on Bitches Brew as Davis. Macero and Davis assembled, from splice to splice, section to section, much of the music recorded over three days in August 1969. First, there's the slow, modal, opening grooves of "Pharaoh's Dance," with its slippery trumpet lines to McLaughlin's snaky guitar figures skirting the edge of the rhythm section and Don Alias' conga slipping through the middle. The keyboards of Corea and Zawinul create a haunting, riffing groove echoed and accented by the two basses of Harvey Brooks and Dave Holland. The title cut (Bitches Brew) was originally composed as a five-part suite, though only three were used. Here the keyboards punch through the mix, big chords and distorted harmonics ring up a racket for Davis to solo over rhythmically outside the mode. McLaughlin is comping on fat guitar chords, creating the groove, and the bass and drums carry the rest for a small taste of deep-voodoo funk. Side three opens with McLaughlin and Davis trading funky fours and eights over the lock-step groove of hypnotic proportion that is "Spanish Key." Zawinul's trademark melodic sensibility provides a kind of chorus for Corea to flat around, and the congas and drummers working in complement against the basslines. This nearly segues into the four-and-a-half minute "John McLaughlin," with its signature organ mode and arpeggiated blues guitar runs. The end of Bitches Brew, signified by the stellar "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down," echoes the influence of Jimi Hendrix; with its chuck-and-slip chords and lead figures and Davis playing a ghostly melody through the shimmering funkiness of the rhythm section, it literally dances and becomes increasingly more chaotic until about nine minutes in, where it falls apart. Yet one doesn't know it until near the end, when it simmers down into smoke-and-ice fog once more. The album closes with "Sanctuary," a previously recorded Davis tune that is completely redone here as an electric moody ballad reworked for this band, but keeping enough of its modal integrity to be outside the rest of Bitches Brew's retinue. Thus Bitches Brew retains its freshness and mystery long after its release.

1.  Pharaoh's Dance — 20:06
2.  Bitches Brew — 26:59
3.  Spanish Key — 17:32
4.  John McLaughlin — 4:22
5.  Miles Runs the Voodoo Down — 14:01
6.  Sanctuary — 10:56

CONDITION: The cover  (thick gatefold) is solid, everywhere. Has only just light shelf wear VG+(+) ...no bends, no writing and no split seams, the colors are still bright.

The vinyl records, all 4-sides are glossy, visual: VG++ to "EX" (excellent) ...vastly clean and clear, has only a few soft, minor hairlines over the 4 sides...

play graded here: excellent without problems!!!

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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