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GATEFOLD JACKET – 2LPs

1ST PRESSING (USA) – 360 SOUND

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Band/Artist: Miles Davis

Album Title: Bitches Brew

Featuring: Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Lenny White, Bennie Maupin, Jim Riley, Jack De Johnette, Harvey Brooks, Charles Alias, Dave Holland, Larry Young, Joe Zawinul, Larry Young, Don Alias, Juma Santos, Billy Cobham, Airto Moreira

Producer: Teo Macero

Catalogue Number: GP 26

Year/Record Company: 1970 Columbia Records

2 LPs – Stereo – 12 inch vinyl record – 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This gatefold 1st pressing LP record double album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good+

Shine: almost all

Scratches: several feather

Label Wear: very light (completely readable; black ink on 1st side of both records)

Labels: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: minimal

LP Sound: excellent (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: minimal

Jacket Condition: good+

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: moderate (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: light

Front Ring Wear: light

Ink or pencil marks: black ink on back, at the middle of the bottom of the jacket (see photos)

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: none

Sleeve Type: original record company sleeves, light wear; new anti-static sleeves are also included

Cover: Mati Klarwein, John Berg

Liner Notes: Ralph J. Gleason

Bitches Brew is a studio double album by American jazz musician, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis, released on March 30, 1970, on Columbia Records. It marked his continuing experimentation with electric instruments that he had previously featured on the critically acclaimed In a Silent Way (1969). With these instruments, such as the electric piano and guitar, Davis rejected traditional jazz rhythms in favor of loose, rock-influenced arrangements based on improvisation.

The album initially received a mixed response, due to its unconventional style and experimental sound. It gained momentum and became Davis's highest charting album on the U.S. Billboard 200, peaking at No. 35. In 1976, it was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, reflecting shipments of 250,000 copies. In 1971, it won a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.

In subsequent years, Bitches Brew gained recognition as one of jazz's greatest albums and a progenitor of the jazz rock genre, as well as a major influence on rock and funk musicians. In 1998, Columbia released The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, a four-disc box set that includes the original album and previously unreleased material. In 2003, the album was certified platinum, reflecting shipments of 500,000 copies. (source: Wikipedia)

Side One

Pharaoh’s Dance 20:00

Side Two

Bitches Brew 26:59

Side Three

Spanish Key 17:29

John McLaughlin 4:26

Side Four

Miles Runs The Voodoo Down 14:04

Sanctuary 10:52

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.

Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis left to study at the Juilliard School in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Miles Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records and recorded the 1957 album 'Round About Midnight. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish-influenced Sketches of Spain (1960), and band recordings, such as Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold over five million copies in the U.S.

Davis made several lineup changes while recording Someday My Prince Will Come (1961), his 1961 Blackhawk concerts, and Seven Steps to Heaven (1963), another mainstream success that introduced bassist Ron Carter, pianist Herbie Hancock, and drummer Tony Williams. After adding saxophonist Wayne Shorter to his new quintet in 1964, Davis led them on a series of more abstract recordings often composed by the band members, helping pioneer the post-bop genre with albums such as E.S.P (1965) and Miles Smiles (1967), before transitioning into his electric period. During the 1970s, he experimented with rock, funk, African rhythms, emerging electronic music technology, and an ever-changing line-up of musicians, including keyboardist Joe Zawinul, drummer Al Foster, and guitarist John McLaughlin. This period, beginning with Davis' 1969 studio album In a Silent Way and concluding with the 1975 concert recording Agharta, was the most controversial in his career, alienating and challenging many in jazz. His million-selling 1970 record Bitches Brew helped spark a resurgence in the genre's commercial popularity with jazz fusion as the decade progressed.

After a five-year retirement due to poor health, Davis resumed his career in the 1980s, employing younger musicians and pop sounds on albums such as The Man with the Horn (1981) and Tutu (1986). Critics were often unreceptive but the decade garnered Davis his highest level of commercial recognition. He performed sold-out concerts worldwide, while branching out into visual arts, film, and television work, before his death in 1991 from the combined effects of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. In 2006, Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which recognized him as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz". Rolling Stone described him as "the most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century," while Gerald Early called him inarguably one of the most influential and innovative musicians of that period. (source: Wikipedia)

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