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Bitches Brew | 
| Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 2440
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099706577423
ASIN: B0000259BA
Release Date: July 12, 1999
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Pharaoh's Dance | | • | Bitches Brew |
Disc 2
| • | Spanish Key | | • | John McLaughlin | | • | Miles Runs The Voodoo Down | | • | Sanctuary | | • | Feio |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The revolution was recorded: in 1969 Bitches Brew sent a shiver through a country already quaking. It was a recording whose very sound, production methods, album-cover art, and two-LP length all signalled that jazz could never be the same. Over three days anger, confusion, and exhilaration had reigned in the studio, and the sonic themes, scraps, grooves, and sheer will and emotion that resulted were percolated and edited into an astonishingly organic work. This Miles Davis wasn't merely presenting a simple hybrid like jazz-rock, but a new way of thinking about improvisation and the studio. And with this two-CD reissue (actually, this set is a reissue of the original set plus one track, perfect for the fan who's not so overwhelmed as to need the four-CD Complete Bitches Brew box), the murk of the original recording is lifted. The instruments newly defined and brightened, the dark energy of the original comes through as if it were all fresh. Joe Zawinul and Bennie Maupin's roles in the mix have been especially clarified. With a bonus track of "Feio"--a Wayne Shorter composition recorded five months later that serves both as a warm-down for Bitches Brew and a promise of Weather Report to come--this is crucial listening. --John F. Szwed
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 This is the question September 24, 2008
The question isn't whether this is a weird branch that Miles Davis wandered off into in the 70's, and do only pseuds like it.
The question is whether this is the best album ever made.
Pharoah's dance knocks most modern orchestral music into a much-needed hole in the ground - its atonal genius - only Stockhausen could even get close to this match of mood and insane key combinations - is unsurpassed.
Bitches brew has a groove so deep that when you really hear it (maybe second listen, maybe third) you almost salute it - its dark, african and american - city and jungle - jesus its superb.
And if you don't like Spanish Key you are very likely dead.
Magisterial Miles September 9, 2008
I'd be some kind of pretentious idiot if I tried to give any kind of in depth review of this album, so I'll keep it short. I have just come back to this particular album after a 23 year absence: it's incredible, quite incredible. The sound quality over my original vinyl copy is breathtaking and within minutes of hearing Pharoah's Dance, I am caught and off and running. Bitches Brew rewards the listener on so many levels;complexity, drive and sublime intelligence.
Columbia/Legacy are to be highly praised with the packaging; the sleeve notes are copious and very detailed
Hey, you know that Desert Island disc thing? Well, it'd be a toss up here between Bitches Brew and Trout Mask Replica.............
Finally, an open question: how come every time I listen to Miles Davis, it makes me want to cook for my friends?
Answers on a postcard to the usual address.............
one of the several excellent miles davis discs. December 31, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is a very good album from miles davis and i think it is one of his best works besides kind of blue even though b^$tches is a bad word, every song on this disc is a masterpiece on this 2 disc set. i'm so sad that he is dead because i would love to see him in concert. anyways, this cd is highy recommended.
Not for the faint-hearted! September 24, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I first heard this album about 5 years ago after hearing of its legendary status from various different sources. It was too much for me to stomach back then having only heard miles' earlier cool jazz and modal jazz albums. But on hearing it again earlier this year I immediately fell in love with it and its now easily among my favourite albums of all time! For jazz purists this is often seen as a real kick in the teeth as it breaks away from all the confines of the stereotypical acoustic jazz band and offers a very different aesthetic to most of Miles' earlier work.
The album is driven by a gritty groove very influenced by rock music at the time. To understand where he was coming from here I would recommend his previous album In A Silent Way and perhaps those leading up to it.
 not very good September 17, 2007
2 out of 19 found this review helpful
This album is very pretentious. I got it as I like birth of the cool and someday my prince will come. They are albums that make you smile as they are beautiful and impressive. However, this is ridiculous. I should have guessed from the photo of miles davis looking like a poser - but I forgive him as he is very talented; this is experimentation, understandable to want to experiment. If like me you like to pick out jazz that is unpretentious and not all smoothy-smoochy, check out django reinhardt djangoloy and louis armstrong hot fives and sevens (and the aforementioned decent miles davis albums). That is real music, and music that is intelligent without falling into the trap of disappearing up your own ass in an introverted neurotic pile of vain nonsense.
Again, I'd like to remind that I like miles davis a lot when he's on form.
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