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April 26, 2016 In Features, Lists. Navigating the complex landscape of Miles Davis’ electric years in 10 crucial records. Kind Of Blue might be biggest selling jazz LP of all time, but Miles Davis should be remembered for so much more than that single modal masterpiece. And while the establishment will try and tell you his greatest work falls into the two great quintets he assembled between the late ’50s and mid ’60s, so much of what came after, during his so called electric period and comeback in the ’80s, deserves similar scrutiny.

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ESP marks the beginning of a revitalization for Miles Davis, as his second classic quintet - saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams - gels, establishing what would become their signature adventurous hard bop. Miles had been moving toward this direction in the two years preceding the release of ESP and he had recorded with everyone outside of Shorter prior to this record, but his addition galvanizes the group, pushing them toward music that was recognizably bop but as adventurous as jazz's avant-garde.

Davis accepted and worked with Gil Evans in what became a five-album collaboration from 1957 to 1962. Miles Ahead (1957) showcased Davis playing a flugelhorn and a rendition "The Maids of Cadiz" by Léo Delibes, the first piece of classical music that Davis recorded. Evans devised orchestral passages as transitions, thus turning the album into one long piece of music. Miles in the Sky and Filles de Kilimanjaro -which tentatively introduced electric bass, electric piano, and electric guitar on some tracks-pointed the way to the fusion phase of Davis's career. He also began experimenting with more rock-oriented rhythms on these records. By the time the second half of Filles de Kilimanjaro was recorded, bassist Dave Holland and pianist Chick Corea had replaced Carter and Hancock. Davis soon took over the compositional duties of his sidemen.

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Here, Zen Marie introduces two of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis’ albums, Bitches Brew (1970) and Live-Evil (1971). Miles Davis’ electric period was book-ended by his records In a Silent Way (1969) and Agharta (1976). Dubbed Electric Miles, it was unpredictable, challenging, groundbreaking – funk’s James Brown meeting art music’s Karlheinz Stockhausen, with psychedelic rocker Jimi Hendrix gatecrashing.