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Miles Davis
Analytical Essay # 10518
Miles Davis
Discusses controversy over his shift from cool jazz & hard bop to jazz/rock fusion & electronic instruments in 1969. Analysis of "Bitches Bew" recording.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages) |
6 sources |
2001
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"Near the end of the 1960s jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-91) began to experiment with electronic instruments (primarily bass and piano) played by members of his groups. Within a short time Davis released two recordings, In a Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1969), that started a storm of controversy--although the latter record sold better than any album in jazz history. The problem as Davis saw it was that people were simply unprepared to listen to his new style of group improvisation because, first, it involved electronic instruments and rock beats and, second, it was too complex and unusual. But critics and fans who deplored the new direction complained that the music simply was not jazz, that Davis had "sold out" in order to attract the large white audience for rock music with a "fusion" of jazz and rock, and, in some cases, that his new music was a..."More papers on Miles Davis:
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