Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition | CD review

(Sony)As with last year's Kind of Blue 50th-birthday extravaganza, this 40th-year equivalent for Bitches Brew is more of a luxury gift than an essential. The electric sound and thundering Latin-rock grooves might have broken with the cool-jazz tradition, but the spontaneity, colour and visionary production (hours of improv turned into an album in Teo Macero's edit) mean you can be blown away listening to the rhythm section, never mind Miles Davis's blazing trumpet, John McLaughlin's razor-ed...

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