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The Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” 40th Anniversary COLLECTOR’S EDITION trax:
September 14, 2010 is the new release date (in all countries). Instead, here’s the 2nd coming of Bitches Brew from Columbia Legacy/Sony Music – 1998, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, reissued in May 2004. With tracks not necessarily in order of appearance:
BITCHES BREW. It’s ELECTRIC! Miles away from Bop…The celebrated, enigmatic, and controversial double album recorded between August 19, 1969 and February 6, 1970 by Miles Davis and a constellation of jazz and fusion all-stars struck gold for Davis. Some of the tracks listed below were not included on the original Bitches Brew, but appeared on the albums, Live-Evil, Big Fun, and Circle In The Round, and as part of Complete Sessions.
Allright — just M(eye) IMP-re-shuns: Hey, it’s all about: Tempo/Groove/Mood/Jazz/Rock/Funk/Fusion, baybee. My kind of brew-ha-ha. But, then, I’m a jazz oddist who likes to dance: a rare breed.
CD #1
Pharoah’s Dance (Joe Zawinul) – 20:06
Z’ wa-n-unly Zawinul Piano Man shoots from the (way) hip with a Phender-Rhodes. Apparently, the “Pharoah” complies with a Phan-C 2-step…a shuphleoph2buphalow. Don’t make me break out the chalk and get all hieroglyphic, cerebral types. This is a visceral experience best sparked in the hippocampus — Dig? Archeologically speaking.
Bitches Brew (Miles Davis) – 26:58
OUCH! KICKS IT. It’s daaaaaark in here. N-lightening can mess with the electrical impulses that effect and affect one’s perception AND autonomic nervous system. I listen to Bitches Brew and realize just how closely they got it right. This track excites my molecular and cellular components and brings back fond memories of a lightning strike that decided to seek ground while I was playing my Les Paul one afternoon. (A bad choice on its part.) I do so looove this track. Reverb never sounded so… ooh, scary.
Spanish Key (Davis) – 17:34
Miles did love the MORES of Spain moore than you or I will know. Moreover, beyond this track, they played a minor role in the conquering of the world and the worm in a minor key — yes – it all goes back 2 music and booze, doesn’t it? You won’t be disappointed, sans the essence of cacti (T-keela) or “Avec Sangria” when soaking in (the) Spanish Key (Geographic Note: Not located off the Florida coast — but in that box set that’s soon 2 B in your possession.) Make mine a cask, conquistador. Amontillado, por favor!
John McLaughlin (Davis) – 4:22
Saw him once with Paco de Lucia and Al Dimeola. Reeeeeally fast fingers — I think he grew a few more digits for on this track.
CD #2
Miles Runs The Voodoo Down (Davis) – 14:01
Zzombies bust moves to this track — “BRAINS!!!” That’s what many people bust on about when they think about jazz — however — this ditty is proof that it’s not all in one’s head — Jazz can moove you when you bend it like the rubber band, man —
All frank-n-funk and (muthah)ship
Sanctuary (Shorter) – 10:56
…outside the gates. Wayne Shorter composed: Miles D. reposed. That Chick on the electric piano floats it through the storm. Everybody on the arc as the sun bursts — YEAH! Excuse me while I kiss this guy!
Great Expectations (Davis-Zawinul) – 13:45
The Dickens it ain’t. This is what happens to you in a sensory deprivation chamber. Danger: Could induce hypnagogia. If you are epileptic you might want to avoid most of this track and skip to the Halcion part, but only if you aren’t either pregnant, under 18, or (consider yourself) elderly. Everyone else take a flotation device with you. It is worth the ride.
Orange Lady (Zawinul) – 13:50
Could it be the sun? No. Just a sitar through a ph-azer. Oh! and a tabla boot…or, WAIT! Aurora borealis on my shoulder… it’s true, it’s actual — everything is satis-factual. Does true polarity exist between the Orange Lady and Mr. Blue Bird on my shoulders? Not in my head space…
Yaphet (Davis) – 9:39
Oh! Comely all ye ph-aithful…still traveling time and space… a little ring around the rosies…a pocket ful-a — don’t take it lying down, folks.
Corrado (Davis) – 13:11
Allow me to scrape together a Plate of Miles Tectonics — Holy Schist! It’s a muthuh, B-atchez. Hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, hypodermic — inject some Bitches Brew into the environment to stop continental drift. It’s the least we can do if we’re going to completely ruin our climate-controlled conditions on terra firma by drinking out of foam cups…
CD #3
Trevere (Davis) – 5:55
A serial of nutritious cuicas and neutrinos. Yum.
The Big Green Serpent (Davis) – 3:35
Back in Eden, Eve dupes Adam and all hell slithers loose…stay tuned for the rest of the story…
The Little Blue Frog (Davis) alternate take – 12:13
Back in Eden, Dendrobates Azureus makes creative use of quiet calls on quiet nights, quiet chords from sitars, floating in the silence that surrounds the rain forest… reptiles…captured by a cuica
— in the brew… a little blue poison cures what ails ya.
— in the brew… a little blue poison cures what ails ya.
The Little Blue Frog (Davis) master take – 9:09
Dendrobates Azureus — with their quiet calls on quiet nights, quiet chords from their guitars (and sitars) floating in the silence that surrounds them…a double dose of cuica poison cures what ails ya…4 good….hand it over, sticky blue fingers.
Lonely Fire (Davis) – 21:09
Bouncin’ bass and tambourine! The jungle’s on fire! Monkeys and frogs, spiders and snakes – Johnny Quest’s beltin’ back 100 proof blue frog juice — again. Hey! We’re over here — YES. There ARE 3 of me and…
Guinnevere (David Crosby) – 21:07
Where did you come from? The tintinnabulation of the bells…a stroll across the… wait a second…peacocks and orange trees? This really IS a David Crosby song. I thought I was in a rainforest…
CD #4
Feio (Shorter) – 11:49
The walls are moving…
Double Image (Zawinul)– 8:25
I don’t know about you, but yep, I see ‘em — the Earps and Holliday — The Clantons and McLaurys – in an urban alleyway, through liquid light’n…Hey! Quest — toss me another frog! I’ve landed in the wrong dimension…
Recollections (Zawinul) – 18.54
Quarks groove. Yes, they do. They chirp, too. I remember.
Take It Or Leave It (Zawinul) – 2:13
Miles took it — to…er…bubbling neurotransmitters…eye of (k)newt(onian principles)…musical alchemy…a (k)new beginning.
The End.
Double Image – 5:52
Ditto.
Clap, clap, clap! Clap, clap, clap!
AND — The Bitches Brew Players take a bow: A Veritable Who’s Who of Contemporary Jazz (Con)Fusion.
Miles Davis – Trumpet, Vocals
Don Alias – Percussion, Conga, Drums
Khalil Balakrishna – Sitar
Harvey Brooks – Bass, Electric bass
Ron Carter – Bass
Billy Cobham – Drums, Triangle
Chick Corea – Electric piano
Jack DeJohnette – Drums
Steve Grossman – Soprano saxophone
Herbie Hancock – Electric piano
Dave Holland – Bass, Electric bass
Bennie Maupin – Bass clarinet
John McLaughlin – Guitar
Airto Moreira – Berimbau, Cuíca, Percussion
Bihari Sharma – Tabla, Tamboura
Wayne Shorter – Soprano saxophone
Juma Santos (Jim Riley) – Conga, Shaker
Lenny White – Drums
Larry Young – Organ, Celeste, Electric piano
Joe Zawinul – Electric piano
Chompin’ away at the bit? CHOMP AWAY…9/14/10 is the day that Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” 40th Anniversary COLLECTOR’S EDITION Trax will be revealed:
Disc One (CD)
1. Pharaoh’s Dance
2. Bitches Brew
3. Spanish Key
4. John McLaughlin.
Disc Two (CD) 1
1. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
2. Sanctuary Bonus tracks:
3. Spanish Key (alternate take)
4. John McLaughlin (alternate take)
5. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down (single edit)
6. Spanish Key (single edit)
7. Great Expectations (single edit)
8. Little Blue Frog (single edit).
Disc Three (CD)
1. Bill Graham introduction
2. Directions
3. Bitches Brew
4. The Mask
5. It’s About That Time
6. Sanctuary
7. Spanish Key/The Theme
8. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
9. Bill Graham outro. (previously unreleased.)
Disc Four (DVD) – Chapters:
1. Directions
2. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
3. Bitches Brew
4. Agitation
5. I Fall In Love Too Easily
6. Sanctuary
7. It’s About That Time/The Theme.
(Previously unreleased.)
Vinyl 180-gram double-LP —
LP One
Side B
Side A
Pharaoh’s Dance
Side B
Bitches Brew.
LP Two
Side A
1. Spanish Key
2. John McLaughlin
Side B
1. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
2. Sanctuary.