"We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks have the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em. Play something else."
- Miles Davis in Notes and Tones, interviews with Arthur Taylor
Miles Davis went electric with In a Silent Way (1969). He followed that up with Bitches Brew (1970), A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971), and my fave, On The Corner (1972).
On the Corner's personnel is stacked with the usual Davis suspects: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, Mtume, et al. And it's like Jazz, Rock, and Funk are strutting down the street together on Grounation Day and they run into the three hot chicks Freedom, Space and Love and they just start dancing... Oh hell, I can't describe. It's a vinyl slab of party sugar?
Nevermind...Just look at the cover above (which is amazing). And watch the vid below, which is live in Vienna 1973. (Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas on guitar, Dave Liebman on sax, Michael Henderson on bass, Al Foster on drums, Mtume on percussion).
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