Miles Davis Electric - A Different Kind Of Blue Part 1-7 (English Subtitles)

When he released "Bitches Brew" in 1970, Miles Davis opened up a new angle to jazz which stirred up emotions like no other record before. Some critics accused Davis of selling out, while the public bought it like crazy. It is one of the most examined albums of all time, even garnering a box set of the sessions. To date, "Bitches Brew" is one of the top selling jazz albums of all time. "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue" examines the next step in the creative process...performing these songs live. The 1970 Isle of Wight featured an array of performers from The Who to Jethro Tull to Joni Mitchell. With improvisation playing a big role in the performance, the band (Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Gary Bartz and Dave Holland) had to be "on", yet ready to change on the fly. Directed by award-winning producer Murray Lerner, "Miles Electric" sits down with several of the performers who played with Miles, interspersed with his 1970 Isle of Wight performance, as well as artists such as Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell, who describe the impact Miles Davis had towards music.

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• electric

[jibsmokestack1]

Crouch and his ilk love to celebrate the black intellectualism of bebop and earlier styles and dismiss fusion because of it's white rock n roll influences. What they fail to realise is that the fusion Miles made on Bitches Brew in particular, is far more out there and less predictable than the theme, solo, theme approach of most 40s 50s and 60s Bop. Accusing him of selling out is so off the mark it makes him and Wynton look silly. These middle class blacks never got over the Beatles invasion!

[pebblefrog196]

I hope Stanley Crouch drowns in a pot of Bitches Brew :)

[jibsmokestack1]

@emiliosollamusic Why?



[emiliosollamusic]

@jibsmokestack1 i totally agree with ur musical concepts, but think you could very well skip the black/white comments

[emiliosollamusic]

this critic talking here is the clear proof that being a sectarian is one of the biggest form of ignorance. As Stravinski put it "those gentlemen that think they know the music better than the composer himself"

[Phished123]

Hey guys, playing a rock/pop festival in the 70s that featured acts like The Who, The Doors, Jethro Tull, Jimi Henrix, and Joan Baez. Sounds like selling out to me ;)

these fucking jazz critics man, they are as bad as the old folk fogies who threw trash at Dylan when he played electic.

[TheDilligan]

largest pop festival in history??? at woodstock their were 500,000 people in the frield and 1,500,000 people surounding it....

[wrf1973]

Tommy Chong on electric piano at 6:04!

[r3ck0rd]

I'm always curious... what is that on the Rhodes piano?

[r3ck0rd]

Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock! 

[siva171]

Stanley Crouch should change his last name to Grouch.

[darinbar]

Which one is Ckorea? The brother or the other?