Bitches Brew

Deu vontade de ouvir num sábado ou domingo de sala. É sexta. 8/10?

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8/10 I usually listen to the daily albums during my commute. Due to the length of this album it took a bit longer than one train to work. What else should I say except; I like it. For a jazz album it feels very modern due to the use of electric instruments rather than just acoustic. Due to this it sometimes listens like a jazz fusion album released in the past 10 years. Yeah the jazz is a bit free and sometimes hard to follow. I would argue that this album would be amazing while being under the influence. But can't go to work on a buzz unfortunately.

Listened Before? N Interesting take by Davis. I wasn't aware that he ventured into electronic instruments, but he did here - the effect is unsurprisingly skillfully executed experimental jazz. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Pharaoh's Dance

Consistently the best.

Solid

Lyder både som et af æraens bedste rockbands og som et af æraens bedste jazzbands. Stor 4er

This is likely to be one of the most snobby and pretentious sounding reviews I’ve written in a long time. Simply because of the nature of this album. I don’t intend for it to be that way, but I’m afraid it comes off like that. For someone like me, who spends a lot more time with music than the average person, this may not be such a daunting thing to listen to. But that average person might have trouble digesting an hour and a half of jazz. Fans of jazz music who know more than me might call me basic for constantly speaking so highly of Miles Davis. But there’s a reason he’s regarded as such an important figure by so many. Bitches Brew is one of the most ambitious recordings of his career, maybe second only to Get Up With It. As him and his band got further into their time as musicians, the need for experimentation became more apparent. In a Silent Way showed him moving away from the third stream modal jazz of his previous work and beginning the electric period. It marked a huge change not only for him, but also for jazz as a whole. It’s the jazz equivalent of Bob Dylan making Bringing It All Back Home. That record is probably still my favorite jazz recording of all time. It simply creates an atmosphere unlike anything I’ve ever heard. It’s what I imagine space sounds like in its purest form. Davis wished to continue pushing the boundaries of his electric infused jazz ideas. And in turn, created Bitches Brew, which many label as the beginning of jazz rock. This is an intense record to say the least. Both in musicality and in scale. Beginning your double album with a 20 minute long song on the A-side and a 27 minute long song on the B-side definitely sets the tone. Separates the men from the boys, if you will. I’m mostly joking, but it’s clear Miles was out to create something big. There pieces are expansive, and beautiful, and terrifying at the same time. They confuse and entrance me, but also make me anxious. It’s part of the reason why I speak so highly of his albums. There is just a certain level of musicianship these guys were on that others can’t compare to. You have to remember there was a time where this was new and weird, and something like this didn’t exist, and they were the first ones to create a world this big through jazz music. I can’t imagine being in 1970 and hearing something like this for the first time. But I also think that’s part of the issue. I love this album, but I don’t know if I could tell someone who is still getting into jazz that they need to hear this. Not until they’ve at least become accustomed to more experimental and unusual forms of the genre. It’s almost too much at some points, and I’m sure I would need more than one full listen to fully digest it. It’s also why I still enjoy In a Silent Way more. It was so much more accessible and I know I can go back to it without any issues. But this is, without a doubt, another excellent and massively groundbreaking set of songs from one of jazz’s greatest masters. Rating: 8/10

I dig most Miles.

and yes they did brew

It's Miles! 4+

Not big on jazz. But this is a classic.

Dude what was Miles Davis on like acid !?!?

Definitely way more experimental and electronic than the previous Mile Davis albums I got. I was impressed by how well I enjoyed this, while being extremely different than his other albums.

Pharoah's Dance - I liked it. I don't think I'm qualified to assess a jazz record. But I like the, what sounded like, improvisation on this one. Bitches Brew - Menacing bassline to start. Wailing reverbed trumpet sounds dystopic. Drummer is having fun on this one. Like the way they bring it all back at the end. Spanish Key - This is the most structured track so far. Guitar is nice on this one. I prefer the controlled chaos of the last two tracks. John McLaughlin - Short track. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down - I like this better than Spanish Key Sanctuary - Was really paying attention to this one. I'm not the target audience for this one. I don't know enough about jazz or do close enough listens to fully appreciate this album. It was enjoyable enough for me though. It's made me more curious about the genre.

I'm not smart enough for Miles Davis.

Ooh yeah, acid jazz. This made my ears perk up. I'm glad I finally got around to listening to this album.

A bit too avant garde for my taste

A difficult listen even for a massive Miles fan like myself but well worth it. There is just something so other worldly about the sound that just captivates me.

When people say they hate jazz, this is exactly the kind shit they're talking about. Here we have Miles "Fucking" Davis in the height of his fame. His band is so under-utilized on this album. His compositions are pushing the boundaries of melody, harmony, all those things what make music *music*. He never quite gets there, though. He never quite breaks through to the lofty heights of true atonality. He calls this album "Directions in Music", and that's all we have: vectors of music vaguely pointed in the same direction. They're all skirting around the edges of melody, firmly stuck in the grey areas. Jazz purgatory. I was listening to a Victor Wooten clinic the other day, and what he said really stood out to me in terms of this album. (https://youtu.be/ruMW7gsuFb0 – Wise man, that Wooten.) This album doesn't want you to enjoy it, to sympathise with it, to groove with it. This album demands from the start that you listen to it. It practically announces, "Pay attention, you musical plebes. I'm an IMPORTANT ALBUM™ and don't you forget it." Man, between my kids and my job, I have enough external forces making demands on my time. I don't need a Miles Fucking Davis album making even more demands of me. This album steadfastly refuses to let me just sit back and lose myself in the enjoyment of it. I ain't got time for that right now.

I crashed my car listening to this album in high school after sitting through a brain-bending standardized test. Upon revisiting it fifteen years later, I find I like it more than before. However, I think the iconic Miles Davis records such as this one and the overrated "Kind of Blue" are not among the man's best, especially when compared to more emotional works like "Seven Steps to Heaven" or "In A Silent Way". Still, "Bitches Brew" stands out as a singularly unpleasant record. The dissonant improv captured on the album is suggestive of hexes and spells, a supernatural voodoo music that can cause car crashes and can ruin your life. I also applaud the fact that a 27-minute tune was squeezed onto one side of a record.

Fav: Bitches Brew Least Fav: John McLaughlin Freestyle jazz was hitting different in the background as I was doing my wordle and other NY Times games.

Sublime, funky jazz music with a spacey sound. A

My third Miles Davis album and perhaps his most popular. As I have said before Jazz was never my favourite genre but the albums by Miles Davis on this list are largely responsible for me appreciating it a lot more. I have bought the CD version of this album and happy to listen to it anytime. It is a challenge to listen to in full from start to finish but if you pick any one of the longer tracks this is just enough to give you as entertaining jazz fix. It’s fully deserving to be on this list and as it’s described as one of the greatest jazz albums ever, a must have in my own collection.. 4/5 5/11/24

this experimental and impressionistic jazz album is pretty much a 1970s version of something claude debussy would've written during his lifetime. while having a simple verse chorus structure, these tracks challenge the listener by their loose and abstract solos. there's some tracks that linger, but most are diamonds in the rough.

Bitches Brew //

My favourite Miles album always switches between in a silent way, kind of blue and this one. All phenomenal

Got to enjoy this on vinyl. Love this record, but wish I had some Dogfish Head Bitches brew to enjoy it with.

Very different to my usual listening, 4/5

If you listen to this and don’t like jam bands I think you need to open up a little and check your ego 🤷🏼‍♂️

Not too jarring, some nice music throughout. I don't think I'd pick it up to listen to but did enjoy it more than expected.

4.5

YAYYYYY pharaohs dance- strap in. idk if the pharaohs were dancing to it but this shit got me two steppin in the club. 8 bitches brew- 7 or 8 spanish key- i <3 the bass. 9 john mclaughlin- 7 miles runs the voodoo down- locked back in. 8 sanctuary- 7 feio- 7 mwah. sorry im only giving it a 4 im just not gaga over it sorryyyyyyyy. favorite songs- pharaohs dance or spanish key

This is one of those albums that has some really cool, interesting points, but goes on for too long. I really like it, but it feels like too much to just sit down and listen to in one go. It's like a 3.9 for me because of that.

On dirait des extraterrestres à qui on aurait demandé d'imaginer ce que la musique pourrait être: à la fois inédit, presque déconnecté, étranger, et une exploration poussée au degré extrême qui manifeste une connaissance intime. Pour moi, c'est une curiosité, mais je comprends qu'on s'y perde (de bonheur comme d'incompréhension).

I LOVED Pharaoh's Dance! This was one of the best new song discoveries I've made so far along this project. It left me in a trance, there was something so captivating about it. The rest of the album was great too, although it didn't reach the same level of magic I felt from Pharaoh.

I get it if people hate this. I think at times it does degenrate into squawks and “noose.” But truly that’s why do like it. This isn’t something I can just throw on in the background. I need to be intensely focused on the music while it’s playing. And when I do that I’m taken on a journey that’s thrilling. 4.5/5

Some spooky jazz baby

Ah yes. One of THE avant-garde jazz albums of all time. Miles Davis’s massive step into psychedelic jazz is something to behold, even if it’s nowhere near his most accessible release

Enjoying ceviche in Peru? Seeing a double rainbow? Did it make you want to fall in love? Tbh Bitches Brew was less listenable than I remembered. It is a brew for sure. I still enjoy it as a piece of art, but lets be real its probably more groundbreaking and significant for musical evolution than it is enjoyable for the ears. Fave Track: Spanish Key 3.8/5

Although I personally believe that even Miles himself has more vibrant and twisted records under his name, this album is a classic for many a good reason, from its sweaty feverish atmosphere to the dense and clever interplay between instruments. I love the bulk of it, even though I have other Davis albums I'd rather return to.

Nearly overwhelming at times, a new departure for jazz music and a launch point for a lot of new styles in music

3rd Miles Davis album I got. I like this better than his 50s work. Favorite song: Pharaoh's dance.

Not in a silent way, but not bad still!

Loved it

Rambly jazz; trumpet, sax, guitar driven

Not easy music to listen to on the side. But it takes you on a great journey. It's as if the music is telling a story.

Første sang var mega nice

Stunningly vibrant and intricate, frequently gnarly and discordant. Not an album for the impatient, but man, there's a lot to enjoy in here if you're willing to embrace a little creative chaos. Fave Songs: Pharaoh's Dance, Spanish Key, Bitches Brew, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

Don't call them bitches bro.

Miles Davis mesmerizes and dazzles here. There’s something truly hypnotic about the production and composition of what many would say is Davis’ best release. A true modern Jazz standard that should be looked at and studied for how much creativity gets brought forth here.

Good working music. A little too much for me for yesterday but that has to do with my mood.

Bij veel albums ben je geneigd om de cover art te zien als het visitekaartje van de artiest, hoogstens een verpakking voor de muziek die in de sleeve zit. Maar bij deze artwork begint het album, het is een verlengstuk van de muziek, en als je de dubbel LP opent word je de mystieke wereld van Miles' teefjesbrouwsel ingetrokken. Het fascinerende kunstwerkje blijft zich tijdens alle nummers als een mentale videoclip in je brein afspelen, en het zinspeelt op een plaat vol chaotische, afro-futuristische, psychedelische en spirituele tinten. Tussen de surrealistische tekeningen leest de luisteraar ''Directions in music by Miles Davis'', om hem voor te bereiden op een baanbrekende reis door een historie én een toekomst van jazz, funk, rock, en psychedelia. En alhoewel ik de elektronische afslag van jazz naar fusion lang niet altijd kan waarderen, is dit gewoon een draaiboek voor zoveel gewaagde en 'outside the box thinking' muziek acts die volgden. Waar 'Head Hunters' van Herbie een jaar of 3 later al klonk als een raketlancering naar een planeet lichtjaren verwijderd van de onze, had die futuristische reis nooit plaats kunnen vinden zonder de creatieve brandstof van 'Bitches Brew'. Zijn status mag duidelijk zijn, als leidraad in de toekomst van het jazz-genre, als nieuwe standaard in post-productie en engineering technieken, en als een expositie van tal van virtuozen die allen pioniers werden in allerlei cross-over stijlen. Bespeel je een instrument, en ben je op zoek naar inspiratie, zet dan dit album aan en huiver hoe een Chick Corea de piano eigen maakt, een Wayne Shorter de saxofoon laat spreken, en een John McLaughlin tig duizelingwekkende gitaarsolo's uit z'n mouw schudt. Maar ik ben geen muzikant, en ik let dus ook vooral op of de muziek in z'n geheel indruk maakt of zorgt voor een plezierige ervaring. Dat eerste doet het zeker, het tweede hier en daar wel wat minder. Zoals ik al zei kan veel rock-infused jazz me niet echt bekoren, en dat is nou net waar we mee te dealen hebben op 'Bitches Brew'. En met fases waarin het soms tien minuten lang aan één stuk door ploeteren was door geïmproviseerde elektrische jazzrock, is het altijd een uitdagende ervaring.. op z'n zachtst gezegd. Maar het werk is - in lijn met de positieve sidenote bij het turbulente 'Trout Mask Replica' - wel ontzettend catchy. Niet 'Duran Duran catchy', maar wel de 'onaardse geluiden uit de trompet van Miles, zenuwachtige tempowisselingen, en 2 drumstellen, 3 piano's en 4 gitaren catchy'. Ik hou van muziek van Isaac Hayes, Barry White of Chic, waar de groove echt op een presenteerblaadje ter consumptie wordt aangeboden, maar soms is het vermakelijk om de uitdaging aan te gaan om de groove zelf onder een dik pak aan duistere, chaotische en vaak oncomfortabele sounds vandaan te halen. 'Bitches Brew' is zo'n brouwsel waarin fantastische grooves zitten, maar het vraagt wat doorzettingsvermogen om ze er uit te halen. Maar elke luisterbeurt hoor je er weer eentje meer, en dat geeft een hoop voldoening. Waar de chaos der instrumenten bij 'Trout Mask' voortkwam uit een bewuste strijd tussen de bandleden, kun je de spanning in 'Bitches Brew' meer zien als een rap battle waarin de ene muzikant de andere naar een nog hoger niveau pusht. Een paar van die verborgen grooves zijn te spotten op de tweede CD, wat de geduldige luisteraar beloond. Gezien de streams op Spotify keldert het aantal luisteraars exponentieel vanaf track 1, wat wel aangeeft dat het een taaie kluif is. Ik kan me daar volledig in vinden. Maar songs als 'Spanish Key' glijden langzaamaan in een smerige groove, wat op de tweede helft van het nummer te horen is. Wat meer obvious is de funk in 'Miles Runs the Voodoo Down', wat voor mij het muzikale hoogtepunt van het album is. Iets minder rock, iets meer jazz-funk. Maar dit zijn van die parels onder in het griezelige scheepswrak, waar de meeste duikers niet meer bij komen op één zuurstoffles. De luchtvoorraad in je longen - en daarmee ook in je hersenpan - zit er al aardig doorheen na 'Pharaoh's Dance' en de titelsong. De all-consuming opener vind ik zelf wel één van de sterkste songs op het album, en de kakofonie aan geluiden die ook vaak in de weg zit op de rest van het album, spreekt me hier nog wel aan. De Egyptische ritmes en fluitjes in een futuristisch jasje gestoken zoals Sun Ra dat in z'n beste jaren deed. Het levert een extatisch werkje op, waar Toetanchamon van recht op in z'n sarcofaag gaat zitten. De titelsong stelt de iconische sound uit de trompet van Miles als geen ander nummer tentoon, maar ik heb niet echt het idee dat het nummer ergens heen gaat. De groove is nog niet ontdekt, zeg maar. Dus even op een rijtje; het album duurt echt té lang, überhaupt, maar ook zeker voor iemand die elektrische jazz niet echt goed trekt. En laat het nou net muziek zijn waarbij geduld een schone zaak is. De kracht van deze plaat is direct z'n valkuil, het vraagt om een ijverige luisteraar die wordt beloond nadat hij steeds dieper het drijfzand in wordt getrokken. Het zorgt voor een interactieve luisterbeurt, zoals niet veel platen dat kunnen bieden. Maar door zijn lengte vraagt het gewoon te veel energie om het echt goed op waarde te kunnen schatten. Ik doe m'n best, meer kan ik niet doen. Maar die paar ontlede grooves zijn het toch ook wel weer waard. En de productie is gewoon verbluffend, ondanks de hier en daar onprettige geluiden klinkt alles zo clean en scherp. Wellicht maakt dat het ook wel zo oncomfortabel. PS: Was deze review óf het album een taaiere kluif? 8/10 Highlights: Pharaoh's Dance Spanish Key Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

3.5/5

This is a long album made up of long songs. My contempt for jazz cannot be overstated, but Miles Davis has often been a weird exception to that. The vibey-ness of this record makes it a super compelling listen, even when the songs aren’t totally connecting with me on a melodic level.

This one was fun

Mesmerising, hypnotic, a rich brew of sounds and rhythms. A really great assembly of virtuoso musicians laying down some radical tunes. It is a long album, and if you listen in one sitting the songs can start to blur into each other. For this reason I don't think it is quite up there with its predecessor In A Silent Way. Nevertheless a landmark album and well worth anyone's time

Love this 4

I can't quite decide if this is a masterpiece or unbearable. Or maybe just an unbearable masterpiece. I tried listening while I was doing some work and found that it would absolutely not let me concentrate on anything else. It would not allow itself to meld into the background. So it took me forever to listen to, and I definitely felt fatigue as it went. It kind of made me feel anxious to try to just sit and listen to its endless musical rambling. But I also felt some sublime moments! For sure!

Very groovy jazz! No wonder I had heard of this album even before I realized how I like jazz. Turned my day into a wildly colored wonderland. Parts were a bit challenging for me, but I kind of expected that. I’m glad that this project has put jazz within my reach.

Incredible for all the reasons so many better critics and musicians have written about before. Unless you are an afficionado though this is a challenge to listen to. Worth it for sure, but certainly not a casual little album.

Jazz is stupid

This is clearly objectively amazing stuff. I probably wouldn't choose to listen to such long-form music on the daily, but it was an epic journey for sure. Favourite tracks: Pharaoh's Dance, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down, Feio.

You know, this is still a good album, but to be honest, it doesn’t quite reach 5 stars for me. It doesn’t have the same ubiquity or enjoyment of Kind Of Blue, or my personal favorite, In A Silent Way, for that matter (I’ll be getting that later). Still, it’s a weird album that I enjoyed listening to for this.

miles, miles, miles. so good.

It’s Miles Davis, his albums have strong personalities of jazz, which I’m fond of. bitches brew seems to be more blunt, less lighthearted than his other albums which helps it stand out. 4.0

Important and must listen? Yes. Do I like it? Well I didn’t. When I heard it many years back (after hearing return to forever, weather report, mahavishnu orchestra, steely dan etc) I found it drab and dull. Maybe I’ve grown into it. Maybe I was wrong then. Maybe I’m old. But I enjoyed it now more than I did. I also have a nagging feeling that Miles is overrated slightly. And I acknowledge that that is not a widely held belief. I also find his ubiquitous influence baffling. It’s only recently that jazz bands have moved away from trying to sound like miles. I don’t resent the influence nor do I think it all bad but I think he inadvertently held jazz back for decades by all of those trying to sound like him. Instead of learning his lesson (find your voice and express that) they copied. So the audience got bored.* This is not Miles’s fault any more than endless pointless wailing on guitars is Eddie van halen’s fault, or tortured wordplay with no craftsmanship is Dylan’s. But jazz players should know better. The whole history of jazz is innovation. I’m pretty sure miles has the most impressive alumni of any bandleader. And the bands that came out of this album alone… who didn’t sound like miles. 5 stars because of its influence. Take that away and think I’d have given it 2 when I was 20. But 3.5 now. Maybe I’ve gone senile. *of course there are honourable and notable exceptions. But those who complained that jazz didn’t progress had somewhat of a point.

It wasn’t until last year, when I picked up a vinyl copy of this album that I became familiar with it. Ever since I found a second-hand copy of In A Silent Way (1970) sometime in the 70’s, it is still the Miles Davis fusion album that I’ve enjoyed most & the album that preceded Bitches Brew. It was the album that marked Davis’s move to using electric instruments. It was also very influential - Santana’s Caravanserai (1972) & the album Carlos Santana did with John McLaughlin, Love Devotion Surrender, were both incredibly influenced by In A Silent Way. McLaughlin was still in Miles’s band when Bitches Brew was recorded, but there’s none of the subtlety of In A Silent Way. Bitches Brew sounds less structured & more like a series of jams. Not sure why it opens with Pharaoh’s Dance, which I find too loose & just a bit noisy. However, the title track, running for almost half an hour, is totally engaging & the second record is also a winner. Funny that the track John McLaughlin is the only track on the album that Miles sits out. I saw McLaughlin in 1979 at Newtown’s Elizabethan Theatre. I know the violinist L.Shankar was in the band, so it was probably the One Truth Band. They released their only album that year & McLaughlin included a song entitled Miles Davis, retuning the favour Miles had paid him on Bitches Brew.

could i write poetry to this? n

Amazing album! Great after some grass especially

Not quite what I would have expected from Miles Davis in my mind, but I still enjoyed the groovy background music it provided.

Can't tell if I really liked this just to spite my friends after they said to skip all jazz or not, but it made cooking a blast. So interesting when you give it full attention and don't get mad when it's abrupt or chaotic or nonsensical or any other jazz hater descriptor

3.75

I had heard this a while ago but was not ready for it. Years later, my time spent listening to jam bands and a wider range of jazz has prepared me for this moment. I tend to find it helpful to think about jazz albums as just a bunch of great musicians jamming instead of the way I look at rock or pop albums and then I get less frustrated with how different or inaccessible it may be. \"Spanish Key\" was a highlight for me and \"Miles Runs the Voodoo Down\" was just killer

Buena música

3.6/5 Sorry, but the best jazz in the world still sounds like boring background music to me. Best Track: (they all sound the same)

Gigantisch parra album. Disc 1 is enkel geschikt voor specifieke momenten.

4.5

Intense Jazz

A study in improvisation an sound painting. Interesting in it’s cultural context, but it has somehow lost its relevance. Also a little taxing in the long run.

Jazzy!

I know I’m going to love this album even more with each listen. What a fucking album. Everything sounds so crisp, the grooves are dynamic and there are so many rememberable parts in each song. And for it being almost 2 hours my god it progressed so well and the songs never stagnate, so rich with ideas. It’s a 4 as of now as im still getting familiar with it but im so excited to give it repeated listens.

Miles runs the voodoo down is a fav so far. I think so anyway. Not like I can remember all that’s come before it! Bitches Brew was cool I think! But spooky towards the end. Hopefully in the future I’ll look back and say that I didn’t know enough about jazz to get everything out of this album. I look forward to that. In the meantime, I did really enjoy it though I cant say I wasn’t glad to have finished it - it is bloody long.

Such lovely jazz!

Top notch jazz fusion psychedelia

Super vet

4/5. Had it. Love it

I like this era of MD but do feel it sprawls and is less focused that 'In a Silent Way' Its still pretty magical though.

Great album, very experimental, listened through all 106+ min and again first 2 tracks. One worth a revisit soon. 4.4/5

A musical experience that only Miles Davis and his band — an amazing ensemble — could pull off. This isn’t an album I could listen to all the time but it’s one that I will groove to if I’m in one sitting and want something to focus on.

I don’t normally listen to Jazz but it’s something I can vibe with

A strange experience. Melodies emerge from chaos, grooves underpin mayhem and suddenly you're whistling something despite the dissonance it's being played against. Bitches Brew is a challenging listen, though remaining pleasant if you're adventurous. Unlike Trout Mask Replica, I still have faith that other people do enjoy this -- as do I. I'm not a jazz nerd (just every other kind), so I can only marvel at the swirling maelstrom of sound and how the band pulls it together. The record seems determined to test the limits of how rule-breaking a song can become while still being compelling and enjoyable. Ultimately, though, it is compelling and enjoyable. It asks much of the listener, but rewards just as much. Must listen.

i’ll be honest, i have never rly attempted to get into jazz before so this was pretty much my first serious venture. went extremely hard, but i definitely feel like i’d need to run it back a few more times before i’d truly be able to Get It. also probably would have had a more enriching experience if i had chosen to listen to it during a time that i could actually focus on everything going on instead of on emailing custies but. still very awesome!

ive loved jazz for years but i will admit i am not a great example of a jazz fan bc i love me some serene quiet moody jazz. so as u can imagine disc 1 kinda stresses me out, disc 2 im obsessed with. sanctuary is SOOO good it has such a good build up, 100% my favorite off of this one. also i keep rating these albums 4s but the more albums i listen to the more i wish i could go back and change my other ratings D:<

vibes established. it's difficult as someone who rarely listens to jazz to know how to rate this. it should probably be higher in terms of like, HISTORY, but for me i'd say it's very enjoyable but not my favorite thing. for me personally it's maybe more like a 3.5 but that feels wrong so 4 🌟

we love you miles davis we love you jazz we love you taehyung

So experimental, so new, so above its time. Miles really was pushing the envelope with the new sonic scapes found In A Silent Way and explored further here. Certainly a controversial album for the time, but its influence is still found today. Definitely not as much as the previous album.

Now that's jazz, baby! This is what outer space sounds like.

I'm not a fan or particularly knowledgeable of jazz. I thought this was pretty good and gave it four stars based on reading about it's importance.

I used to love this stuff but now it just hurts. It's brilliant but it's so angry, stressed, and unhappy.

I think the same arguments that I made against Hot Rats could be levied against Bitches Brew, but personally I like it much better.

Kolmosen ja nelosen välis…

Tytötkin panee

Listened to this many a time before. Great record all around.

tururururururue

Odyssey. Chaotic and challenging. Jazz-fusion is a cool sounding name for a genre and is also cool-sounding. Music for getting lost in imaginary oceans, caves and mountains

above my paygrade? I like miles, my favorites are "working" then "kind of blue" and "relaxin", I liked the album but it didn't hit me like the others, I've seen this album recieve great appraisal, so my guess is I don't understand the greatness.

Two hours of some of the best jazz ever created. It is two hours though.

Funky jazz

Not bad. I’m not all about jazz but liked thus

Cool vibes

Nice

God Damn.

I've only ever listened to jazz like this live. I think that's my preferred way to hear it. I like to watch the musicians and see how they feel the music they’re playing. Usually, you end up applauding various moments in the set. Since that’s how I’m used to hearing music like this, I missed that while listening at my desk. It's Miles Davis so it's great music, and it was fine playing in the background while I work. But I definitely connect better to jazz in a live setting. However, I know I’ve heard the 2nd half of the title track before. It immediately sounded familiar. I think it was featured in a ballet I saw recently. So dramatic! And this cover art is gorgeous!

Not a fan of the fact that all but one song on this album are over 10 minutes long, but this is apparently a really good jazz album and Fantano gave it a 10 so I will allow it this time. This is like J A Z Z. It is what most people would think of when you say jazz probably. Its chaotic and experimental at times, and does some really cool stuff that is definitely super ahead of its time. I wouldn't add any one of these songs to a playlist based on sheer length of the song, and because it is just so out there, but this is still really good. A low 4/5

Took two listens to appreciate this one

I've listened to this one before. It's too improvisational for my taste but it grows on you the more you listen. Didn't mind hearing it again.

Miles goes electric - love this. The instrumentals, the production, the mix. Miles is truly one of a kind.

I can’t say for sure they weren’t making it up as they go. Pretty incredible. Can you imagine being the guy on the triangles. Man I get to shine in 25 minutes.

lost track of how many times i’ve tried to play through this record and fallen asleep partway. thanks for the free ride, davis. love and respect the music.

Chaotic, messy, rapturous soundscapes. Definitely get how innovative this was when it dropped; compared to In a Silent Way this feels several clicks beyond what it was going for. Not a listen I fully love or would return to much (I think), but very interesting and important. Best song: Sanctuary

This was a weird listen, but interesting. Not a conventional jazz recording. Bitches Brew was aptly titled. Groovy is a word I could use to describe the overall sound of this album. You can tell it was 1970. 3.7/5

4.75

Many trips through this album and I’m still hearing new things.

Angry Miles. Good Miles.

Contains some of the best music I've ever heard, also contains over-indulgent plinkplonk jazz excess. My least favourite of the classic electric miles era

It was good. 8.5/10

This was good. A bit "out there" for my tastes, but enjoyed it. Solid 👍

Easy to listen to and enjoy!

Cool and moody, think-y and baleful – in other words, a near perfect mirror of its creator temperament. Not especially tuneful, and certainly it’s not Kind of Blue (or even In a Silent Way), but shares with those classics a sort of heady melange that only Miles could muster. It's alchemy basically, with a studied, Rorhschacian neutrality that asks the listener to consider both emotional and intellectual reactions. One’s glad all the stoner kids bought in sufficiently to this landmark of edgy exploration to make Miles “relevant” again (whatever it takes).

Haven’t listened to this for quite a while, and it’s a pretty overwhelming project. It’s a slow burn and requires some patience for me to really appreciate (definitely not something I can stick on at any time) but has a lot of great moments and is just very impressive, a landmark record for sure

Some really cool bits in this. More of a mood than sound at times.

Very experimental but Miles is always able to somehow pull this craziness off. Not sure I like it as much as some of his more standard stuff, but it was still very impressive.

Miles Davis at his most metal.

Tof jazzplaatje

As i expected , amazing improvisation, good use of instruments

It’s clear that this is a groundbreaking album. Miles Davis is extremely skilled and this is an engaging album. I can appreciate all of that but it doesn’t get 5 stars from me because I don’t think I could listen to this every day.

i like this

Bad Word Brew

Good jazz.

The fusion tracks inspired by psycheldelic rock and soul are very fun and novel. Some of the other tracks drag on a bit, though.

Solid early morning listen.

The chaos cuts have evident enough characters; The format is the weirdest thing. Miles did something new, fair enough, with not quite a sequence, not quite a session. That, that and the edits, can only be expected to show up years and ears in.

not into jazz but this is wild.

I recognise that it's just not for me. My first Miles album of the list and I dont know what I think of it. Maybe I need more time with it, but I can realise its good, without really loving it. It's like being in a car crash, and every one of your senses is being violated. Definitely not bad though. 13/03/23

Not a big jazz guy but I liked this overall. A bit long and overly meandering at times but I like the fusion between jazz and rock. I can appreciate how much of a landmark album this is. 4 stars.

man, i find it difficult to appreciate this only listening to it. But it brings so much flow when i was reading. So it's a 4.5

I bet the Tàr character Cate Blanchett plays tells everyone this is her favorite Miles Davis album, even though she's probably never bothered listening to it.

This album is awesome but its too wacky for me to like it as much as other davis releases. I still respect it though

This one's apparently really divisive among the generator audience, but suits my ADHD brain just fine. I think for me it's like... 4/5 for musical enjoyment (at the end of the day, I liked "In A Silent Way" more), 5/5 for interesting production story, 7/5 for album art.

First album I've put on and then hit play again as soon as it finished. This is deep. I've listened to Kind of Blue quite a few times and never really been moved, but Bitches Brew is a far more interesting beast. Jazz is not my thing at all, but this thing somehow floats my boat. At times it sounds like 5 songs at once but then all comes back into a single stream of brilliance. Unexpected 4 stars for me.

Best headache ever. 8/10 Fave: sanctuary

Nice. I love the way of featuring the guitar and organ. Would have been 5 stars if it stopt a little sooner, because after a while I got a bit overwhelmed with all the stuff that's happening.

Just very good jazz

Awesome, I really dig this. Jazz all the way, baby.

It’s a bit tough to get into but it opens up after the first track into something really lovely.

The more discordant it gets, the more I like it. Particularly like when the trumpet punches in.

One bottle of carmenre, one pair of your favourite jammies, one cheese board with side of olives and grapes, one open fire well stoked to roast your nuts, one table lamp setting a dusky scene, one cumfy sofa to stretch out on, one Miles Davis album of chill jazz... close eyes and relax, (try not to think of Ron Burgandy on jazz flute scene)

I liked this and i,m not even a jazz fun. That's the point of discovery new music Sit and listen complain later. 4

Just ride it.

Very cool - but fairly impenetrable so will need several listens.

Well, that was long. I‘ve sat through this before, with similar results: I lose focus and my mind wanders away from the music. The music is great, but it’s just too much for too long. Certainly the brilliance is there, but my attention is not. Is it a 5? Probably, due to the pivotal influence the recording has had on jazz and rock music. But because I hit a jazz fatigue point about a quarter of the way into each of the pieces, I have to drop it to a 4.

I can't be Uber pretentious about Miles. A genius? Perhaps. Do I enjoy listening to this? No. Do I appreciate this? Yes. Will I be sticking to Sketches of Spain for my Miles fix? Also yes.

Although an absolute classic I just wasn't in the mood for jazz tonight. It's still an amazing album though

A JazZ Mastro at his Zenith with an amazing line up in support

Pretty good but long.

very good though i'm not so used to jazz so i couldn't fully understand what was happening

I still don't really know enough to describe or even critique this "properly", but I do know I enjoyed it, and appreciated the talent of the musicians involved.

Still don’t know how to rate jazz but I would say I liked this. I usually can’t stand albums as long as this but I didn’t really mind it. Maybe because of the freeform nature of it, I don’t know. Not sure if I would listen to it again though

I like Miles Davis, good album.

4.5/5. According to Patrick Star, to be a man means to acquire a taste for free form jazz. I am a man.

Remarkable! I always read about him being avant garde and pushing the genre to new territories, but hearing it made me think about what a shock this sound must have been to the jazz world.

listened to again one of his greatest bodies of work

Some great jazz but too long of an album

Crazy dark, lots of space left on this record. Very eerie and jagged. Favorite track: "Bitches Brew"

More rock influences in this album. Enjoyed it!

有点惊悚的味道

Joo tän platan kohdalla ollaan kyllä tultu hiivatin kauas cool -aikakaudesta. Ei välttämättä huono suunta tämäkään, mutta oon enemmän sen kuuskytluvun alun diggari. Tää on tällästä jotenki transsista pörinää ja pärinää mikä on kyl hienoo. Vaatii aikaa kuunnella. Ei helppoa taustamusaa mutta hyvää musaa silti! 4/5

Olipas jees. Odotin jotain hc jazzia, mutta täähän groovas mukavasti. Tosi kova. 4+

Quite the moody musical album. I give it a 7/10.

A bit of a chaotic mess at times, but Miles Davis makes that work. Somehow a bit too long and a bit too all over the place to compete for top spot with his other albums on this list.

Bitches Brew. This is classic album that changed the face of music. Miles took the rock and funk influences (courtesy of Betty Davis) and turned it into a new thing that nobody else could have imagined. I find this album hypnotic, but hard to love. It's a pretty challenging listen, but easy to respect. It's a borderline for five stars, but, given that I prefer On The Corner, this is nearly, but not quite, perfect. Call it 4.8, maybe.

Pretty good

I've neve entirely understood the "jazz-rock" tag applied to this album, cos it doesn't really sound much like rock as most people would've understood it in 1970, and actually more like jazz than most people probably thought it did then too. Great stuff either way, of course, although it is nearly impossible to really love; it's dense and abstract and murky, and in some ways it's fantastically grim in its kind of unrelenting seriousness. Not even remotely easy listening.

jada

I've listened to Bitches Brew at least once before, because this album is a significant entry in the world of jazz music and I am relatively ignorant of jazz. I'm still fairly ignorant of jazz, but this album drawns me in deeper regularly throughout. I do get a little lost occasionally, but my curiousity about the album remains. I might come back for a second listen just to see what I've missed. "Spanish Key" and "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" are the tracks I rated the highest.

One of those albums I can appreciate is a masterpiece but don’t get much personal enjoyment out of it. Prefer miles more accessible music.

Virkilega solid fjarki. Hár fjarki jafnvel. Þung og tormelt a köflum og ekki fyrir alla daga. En þó ennþá ekki alveg komin í full on free jazz eða algjörlega an strúkturs. Frábær blanda.

Rússíbani

Interstellar

Un dels discos que apropa el jazz a altres sons populars com el rock i el funk. Potser el millor de tots ells. Amb Miles Davis encetant una altra de les seves revisions de la música moderna i una portada per la història

Yes.

Gigantic and hypnotic, a bit tiring but definitely worth the listen

Claaaaaasssic… + ja känner att ja ha vari lite för generös me mina fyror…. Kanske bara jag….

lit. swag

A world appart. Classic jazz album that make you travel into deep area of your brain. A bit long but still satisfying.

Very mysterious and chaotic. Sometimes in a soothing way but more often worrysome. Reminded me of the show Preacher, whenever there were a scene when god was present the music would be ominous and dense in layers of instruments clashing as they play. An enjoyable listen and definitly creates a scene in your mind.

storms a brewin’ ⛈

I've never heard this iconic album until today. I have heard, own and love In A Silent Way. Bitches Brew is very much cut from the same cloth. The atmosphere, the feel, the playing is so similar to In a Silent Way that it sounds like they were both taken from the same studio sessions. Do I like it as much? not yet. Will I? maybe. I'm tempted to give it 5 stars which is how I will rate IASW, but it's too new in my listening life so 4.5 🌟

This is the definition of experimental. The feelings it produces in me are denial and quench. I did not enjoy these 90 minutes, but I very much respect the musicianship that I could never hope to understand. I am not sure what it is, music or transcendent experimentation, but it sure is something. 3 but my musician friend would kill me if I gave it anything less than a 4, and it was ok studying to too.

This is A LOT. And I feel like I need to listen to it in my dad's basement with the good speakers and a glass of whiskey to fully appreciate it.

What a fusion of fresh jazz music this album is! I don’t think I need to point out Miles Davis’ genius in creating a new genre of music out of the blue, but I will. One of my all time favourite jazz albums. Thanks for arranging this on Christmas Eve!

8/10. Fantastic, but a little hard to get through as someone who doesn’t listen to this style very much

8/10. Good, but so damn long. I don't think I'd listen to this in one sitting again, though it would be a nice background.

Cool but minus points for being really long and not super engaging. 7/10

Jazzy

it's just too long, really

Hell yeah! I mean, its very jazzy jazz and it all blurs together, but it's all very good. It's too long to be accessible, but you can hear Davis doing his craft. Good - All of it? Art - Powerful imagery, even if it looks like a bad fantasy cover from a pulp magazine. The blending of different environments and the melting of borders prepares you for the flow of the album.

Nothing bad to say about this. Classic jazz record. Will revisit when I’m in the mood. Docking one star based on my personal taste.

Overall very solid, a good vibe throughout

Great, but hoping 'kind of blue' is on here too

Kinda feels like a predecessor to a lot of other avant-garde genres like noise rock and ambient. I don’t usually like stuff like that but I think the fact that this project uses classical instruments makes it easier for me to get into. The only problem is that it’s too long. I like it more than I remember liking kind of blue but I doubt I’d come back to it often

Rating: 7/10

Tumultuous

Magic. Sparkles of light energy onto a ribbon of sound unfolding. Like a play. Journey and consciousness.

Irres Album, das die persönlich wahrnehmbare Zeit seltsam verändert. Hatte es auf einer stressigen Stau Fahrt gehört (1,5 Male !!!) und dabei noch gedacht "wtf am I doing here?!" Jazz zum Stress verhält sich ja eher ernervierend also verstärkend, aber manchmal ist wie beim inner turmoil bei Coltrane so gut vom eigenem Furor aufgefangen wie das hibbelige und ungeduldige Wesen im vielschichtigem Spiel Davis'. Tolle Kombo auch und starke Gitarren-Parts. Als würde die aggressive Faust aufs vorauseilend bläuende Auge passen. Wie schreibt man solche Musik? Irre schön-kitschiges Cover zudem für irre schön-kitschige 3.8

Just recently listened to this for the first time and made me realize that actually like jazz

Sprawling and expansive, with musicians at the peak of their game. I think this still sounds startlingly modern, and it birthed whole subgenres whose best exponents haven't ever quite reached these heights. Whether you like this or not boils down to your tolerance of jazz fusion, I suppose - I reckon this would alienate the casual listener.

A fascinating listen. Innovative. I don't think it really stuck with me but I definitely respect jazz/fusion. Might take some time before I truly appreciate this stuff.

Admittedly a but too involved and complicated to be an easy listen for background music, but for a jazz fan this is a great one. The guitar really elevates the album while making it distinct from other Davis stuff.

Spodziewalem sie ze uszlysze pana Davisa jeszcze na liscie, ale nie sadzilem, ze bedzie to tak szybkie spotkanie, a dodatkowo, ze bedzie to material z tego samego okresu, bo Bitches Brew zostala nagrana zaledwie pol roku po wypuszczeniu In a Silent Way, wiec jest to ten sam elektroniczny okres Davisowania, ale pomysl na material jest wyraznie inny, nie ma tutaj przepieszczenia materialu overdubem, a kawalki byly tworzone przez laczenie osobno nagrywanych partow, bo tak jak na poprzedniej plycie sa to potezne formy muzyczne ponad dwudziestominutowe na pierwszych dwoch stronach, a oscylujacych w graniach dziesieciu na dwoch kolejnych, bo jest to podwojny album o lacznym czasie 94 minut, wiec jest to sroga dawka jazzowania, jesli chodzi o styl plyty, to tak jak na poprzednim materiale Miles oddalil sie od klasycznych jazzowych rytmow na rzecz luznych aranzacji inspirowanych rockiem do czego wykorzystal elektryki, zarowno klawisze jak i gitary, czy nawet basy, ale w odroznieniu od silent waya album jest o wiele bardziej oparty na improwizacji, przez co czulem sie jakbym sluchal bardziej Coltrana niz Davisa, jesli chodzi o kompozycje, 90 minut materialu to i featury na takim projekcie musza byc bogate, a najwazniejszymi postaciami beda tam Zawinul na klawiszach i Wayne Shorter na saksie, ten pierwszy jest odpowiedzialny za kompozycje Pharaoh's Dance, drugi natomiast za Feio i Sanctuary, bylem sceptycznie nastawiony przed odsluchem, ale ciesze sie, ze moglem posluchac tak szybko Davisa z tak mocnym materialem, na plejke leci traczek tytulowy oraz Miles Runs the Voodoo Down, no i znowu wypada napisac, ze Davis jeszcze bedzie sluchany, ale tym razem juz na pewno beda to raczej starsze materialy

great jazz, very timeless

Bitches Brew I am familiar with. I have always loved side 2 more than side 1. The record was one of the first true jazz records I spent any real quality time with. I wish I could remember the name of my History of Jazz professor because he is the one that introduced me to Miles, and so many more.

This was a challenging listen. Jazz is not normally my main squeeze but I did enjoy it knowing how influential it was to artists that I love

Rock-Jazz or Jazz-Rock? I have never heard some of these sounds before.

I've never heard this iconic album until today. I have heard, own and love In A Silent Way. Bitches Brew is very much cut from the same cloth. The atmosphere, the feel, the playing is so similar to In a Silent Way that it sounds like they were both taken from the same studio sessions. Do I like it as much? not yet. Will I? maybe. I'm tempted to give it 5 stars which is how I will rate IASW, but it's too new in my listening life so 4.5 🌟

I dig it

“Bitches Brew” by Miles Davis (1970) You’ll have to set aside some time to listen to this 94-minute smorgasbord of experimental jazz, influenced by rock and electronic effects. These six instrumental tracks average over 16 minutes each (The expressionistic “Feio” was not on the original double LP release). They are intricate improvisational compositions, each one involving contributions from ten or more musicians, frequently doubling bass lines (electric and double bass), two electric pianos, and two drum sets. The doubling of these instruments is widely (and helpfully) separated into left and right stereo channels. The greatest level of complexity here is in the rhythm section. This is not just ‘cool trumpet music’. To the listener who is not familiar with jazz, this album will seem to be rather inaccessible. But it has definite rhythmic structure. Stay grounded to snare and cymbals and you won’t lose your way. It’s clear from the horn solos that they are not following a rigid plan. Some minor flubs (a couple in the control booth!) are nicely ironed out. I don’t imagine there were any second takes. What I’d really like to hear is a recording of Davis’ directions to the group immediately prior to the rolling of the tape machines. One of the more fascinating aspects of these sessions (recorded over three days) is that the musicians rarely step all over each other, even when they’re all on board. They work as a team, even through changes in dynamic level and mood. Each musician knows intuitively when to lay back, when to throw in his unique spice, and when to stride in and just plain take over, dammit. My mom would’ve called this ‘noise’. My dad would’ve smiled and leaned back in the recliner. With a cigar. 4/5

Weird but in a good way - not quite the classic jazz. 7/10.

Trippy as fuck

Some real avant-garde jazz here. Also exhibit A of “Miles Davis on drugs.” Some of the grooves the group gets into here are incredible, but some parts are definitely spent trying to find it.

I had a hard time actively listening, but enjoyed a lot as background music. Will listen again.

First jazz album. Can't judge much. But was quite a good listen.

I'm ignorant in jazz but this is groovy and cool - I LIKE it! Definitely a nuanced and expressive colorful blob of music

Didn't listen to the whole album, but I really enjoyed the vibes. I love the clarity of the trumpet and definitely want to listen to the full album. Makes excellent background music.

Always a fan of Miles Davis. Definitely not for everyone, but that's alright.

The famous Miles Davis album, though very avanguardistic and not an easy listen all in all, but age definitive nevertheless.

Great album to viiiiiiibe to

This album is a perfect encapsulation of what makes Miles Davis work. There is a base of experimental jazz that is always in danger of a loud trumpet crashing through it to refocus all attention on it.

Bitches Brew is such a trip, I'm definitely gonna have to take a deeper dive into this one (maybe in a pitch black room, laying on the floor haha). Much heavier and rock-focused than what I'm used to from Miles Davis, incredible set of players on this one. 4.5/5

Can appreciate, but could not focus on anything else, so I guess that's a positive for the album?

I quite like how much chaos is going on w so many different instruments playing at the same time and how good the jamming sounds. I had a problem with Mingus'  album due to its chaos but the chaos on this one works for me. 

Quality, I like jazz i find it fascinating because the musicianship is ridiculous. Its stupidly long though, halve it and im looking at a 5*

Not my first pass; I'll be curious to see if there is more Miles down the road. Not my starting point if someone requested recs for MD. That being said; classic and must listen (duh).

Not in general my genre... I enjoyed the album, especially the parts that highlighted his trumpet. But it’s so much you kind of get lost in it. I’m between 3 and 4 but I’ll go 4 just cause it’s Miles Davis

First couple tracks were great, then it gets to B-Side, drug infused, experimental jazz. Got to be in that mood for that, but I still liked it.

Oh boy, if there ever was a polarizing album... Fans of his earlier phases, Be-bop, Hard-bop and Modal will probably hate this. But what you have to respect about Miles is that he's always pushing the boundaries and charting new territory, too bad if its out of your comfort zone. Get uncomfortable mofos! I think this would have been a cracker single album but it drags a bit as a double, so I would give it a 3 +1 for its influence on jazz/rock fusion and just because Miles is the OG badass mofo. If you like this check out the album Miles from India, a compilation of Miles' music mostly performed by excellent Indian musicians.

It's jazz bro

Nice and relaxing/ Trumpets out of 5

Late period Miles Davis is hit or miss for a lot of folks. But boy do I love it. It's jazz full of the Psychedelic movement, trance like. Like New York City late in the evening. Alive. Kinetic.

Sin ser ni cerca de experto en Miles Davis si sabía un par de cosas; sé que toda su música inicial me ha gustado mucho, desde los 50s hasta cerca de los 70s y que después de un tiempo hizo música que ya se vuelve demasiado extraña, con mucho electrónico, sin la chispa que tuvo antes y muchísimo más confusa. No sabía en qué rubro cae este disco y extrañamente cae casi a la mitad; ya no es bop deconstruido como al inicio pero tampoco es ese jazz fusión feo del final. Lo que queda aquí es algo muy interesante, es tomar a algunos de los mejores músicos de su época (por cierto Chick Corea acaba de morir si no lo conocen busquen algo de él daba lecturas y clases y es muy interesante verlo hablar para entender muchas cosas de jazz), crear una combinación perfecta de instrumentos y alimentarles lo mínimo, dar solo un ritmo, acorde, alguna progresión, ni siquiera llegar a una melodía central y dejar improvisar, lo que se diría dar un "groove" y dejar que cada músico halle a dónde va a ir confiando unos en otros. El resultado a mi punto de vista es brillante, todo fluye y es literalmente sentarse a ver como se crea un disco y una canción de la nada, sentir cómo la música se desdobla y se va acomodando. Es un lugar en el que los géneros se fueron por la borda y se hace un sonido realmente único. Quizá el pero que se le puede poner es que es masivo. Más de 90 minutos puede sonar pesado pero a mi parecer vale la pena agarrar una bebida y aplastarte ese rato en paz y dejarte llevar.

at the start i thought this was pushing the boundaries of my ability to appreciate jazz, but the longer it goes the easier it is to settle in.

I first heard this a long time ago after getting it from the Rochester Public Library - I was trying to learn more about Miles Davis at the time, and I wasn't ready for how vast and varied his catalog is. Maybe a decade later, I appreciate this album more.

Weird and fantastic

Shit is wild and all over the place. I love it

Yeaah I knew the album already, really good. Experimental af tho

Definitely well-known and iconic in modern Jazz. An intimidating album, I can't say I have the background to fully appreciate it. It's likely a 5 but enjoyment (and understanding) for me is a 4. Some bold play here. Might be the only trumpet I've ever heard with echo/delay. It also sounds like a lot of this was spliced together from many cuts, but I would have never guessed that, seems like a complete one-take to me.

great bgm - C

Pretty sweet tracks actually. Very long and often very meandering and esoteric, but all good ambiance.

Really cool but I'm too dumb to appreciate jazz in a way that isn't just "background music"

Only listened to half. It was a crazy experience hearing miles Davis doing something so abstract and psychedelic.

Shit man, this was an experience. From the getgo it takes you someplace else entirely.

there's so much jazz and it's so long and I vibe with none of it sorry :(

the songs are really fricking long 😂 they are all saxophone and stuff

I feel bad for you if you don't get this album.

Beautiful listen

Jazz fusion! Rockigt med el-gitarrer och väldigt experimentellt.

Listened

Normally I’d say that jazz doesn’t do much for me but Miles Davis is an exception. However on this occasion I just think that even this was a little too much for me, a cacophony of sound that at times just wasn’t coherent. Sorry purists.

I tried, but it's just not my thing

Would probably be a 4 if it was half as long

뭐라 쓰지

Not my favorites Miles Davis album, mostly because of the stylistic direction

I don’t appreciate or understand this as much as someone who really loves jazz, but it was generally entertaining and intriguing.

This was even more random than other jazz I have been exposed to. For example when this - let’s call it bloated experimental directionless album ended another miles Davis track came on. Something from the birth of cool. That was awesome compared to this record. Not gonna give it two stars but it’s not a fun listen.

This is really difficult to review for me. I'm not a fan of jazz at all. However, I really liked the sound of this. But then the entire album sounds the same to me. And 1 hour and 45 minutes of trumpets is just way too many trumpets

Brilliant music. But my nervous system can't deal with the sharp trumpet. It is unfortunate. The other music, beside the trumpet, is fantastic. 3/5

Jazz gets away with a lot of shit by saying "it's meant to be challenging". Sometimes I don't want to be challenged.

Paul Klee's theory of drawing was that the artist was simply "taking a line for a walk." I find this useful when trying to listen to jazz - just follow the line, wherever it goes, you'll be tethered to something, you won't get lost. That's what worked with Kind of Blue for me - the lines are clean, cool, and elegant. Bitches Brew sounds like those lines went straight up Miles Davis's nose. The line was then scrunched up into a ball, which, I think, is the basic model of string theory. But that similarity might be because, like string theory, I don't really understand Bitches Brew either. It is one of the few albums that Aislinn can listen to while she works. I tried listening to it while I was writing yesterday - I came to a hour later and it was occult gibberish. 2.5 In my attic lies a pile of all the jazz CDs I ever bought, which is only about a dozen. About half are Miles Davis. Some years back I decided I’d tried my best with Jazz and…well, fuck it. Up to a box in the attic they went. I retrieved Bitches Brew this evening and in truth felt slightly guilty about having left it up there, rejected with the others. It is undoubtedly the Jazz album I have listened to the most in my life. This is principally because I started listening to it when I was about 16, having just discovered that Radiohead had cited it as a major influence in the production of OK Computer (which I don’t get, although I can hear Kid A obviously). It wasn’t back then a particularly enjoyable or edifying listen - quite dispiriting, in truth, because my basic bafflement was clear evidence that I wasn’t musically fit enough to be in Radiohead. I did recognise that it had its peculiar character however - which was enough to keep it in my headphones over the years. The CD I rescued from the attic has a pleasingly chunky booklet. I love the artwork - colourful cartoonish fantasy (and font!) where almost all the other jazz albums in my pile have merely a rather gloomy picture of a musician not looking at the camera. The booklet also has the cringeworthy original liner notes by Ralph J Gleason - an apparent wally. It has too some of the studio edit charts, which I had another go at following as I listened. Absolutely useless. I can’t follow Pharaoh’s Dance or Bitches Brew or Spanish Key. Still, for music that remains structurally oblique, I continue to get quite a bit of enjoyment from listening to it. The satisfying, thick, chewy texture of most of this record is marvellous - I love the double drum kit, the electric piano, and especially that bass clarinet, all ticking away together. If I can’t have structural or narrative satisfaction with those big tracks I always feel happy enough dwelling in the sound - attention always rewarded with some odd, previously unnoticed detail, inattention always attended by an compulsion to groove along in my chair - making my own experience. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure sort of music I find. Whether I want something soothing or abrasive, sweet or bitter, it always seems to all be happening at once - the shift in the focus of my own attention is all. I can attend to one particular musician or none - everyone is perfectly distinctive (apart from maybe the drummers) and everyone is also part of the same smothering rhythmic wave carrying me away. I dare say people who know and appreciate Jazz better than me will say that that is the ordinary dualism that much Jazz is built upon - nothing special about Bitches Brew in that respect. Well I honestly struggle to feel it so potently elsewhere. Maybe the essential advantage Bitches Brew has over me - apart from two drummers (always a great idea, surely) - is the editing and effects. Where almost all the meaningful decisions you hear on Kind of Blue, for example, were made in the moment by musicians in a room, a good portion of the decisions here were made by someone sitting at a mixing desk with headphones on. As someone used to listening to rock and pop music I feel that, I recognise that, and I am comforted. If there is a lack of structural narrative within the longer tracks that I can grab hold of - there is also, at least, a sense of grand narrative across the hour and a half. If I make it as far as Sanctuary and Feio I find that yes indeed - I am ready for a good wallow. Here’s an Album, as I understand the term. Perhaps some other rock and pop listeners will find only the cold chaos of ‘experimental jazz’ in Bitches Brew - as remote and unsympathetic as a thousand other Jazz albums. I personally feel like it is one of the only times Miles Davis, and Jazz, puts an arm round me and invites me in. Now…back up to the attic with it. 3.5/5

Very hard one. I recognize that this is a landmark moment in music history. The studio and in-the-moment creativity is actually incredible. But as a piece of music, as a synthesized whole, it's not especially listenable. I'll take "In A Silent Way" 100 times out of 100. I'm glad I heard this, but don't plan to do it again.

one of the most important jazz albums ever, but I am not big on fusion

I can appreciate the musicianship, but too noodly for my taste

I have found that a lot of the jazz albums on here have been very good, but the Miles Davis ones just haven't been great for me. This one was better that the other one I just listened to. There was more here (not just the fact that it was almost 2 hours), in style and substance. I did still find a bunch of it repetitive without as much variance as I would like. Still, a solid effort. 3 stars.

A few songs were 10 out of 10, but some of them I didn’t get on with at all. Split the difference.

못들었다... 1번 2번 트랙의 초반부 조금과 나머지 트랙은 찍먹했다. 이런 긴 흐름의 곡을 음미하고 싶은 욕구는 있지만 너무 바빴다... 평점은 3점이다. 앨범을 듣지는 못했지만 어떤 구간을 들어도 이 앨범의 세계에 곧바로 빠져들 수 있었기 때문이다.

The first one that I had heard none of before this project, and probably never would have tried otherwise (purely instrumental albums are definitely not my thing). I know nothing about jazz, but I had a good time just taking it in! Not really for me but I appreciate the talent :)

JL : 2, Sanctuary A : 4, Spanish Key

The Good: We get bitches and brew! The Bad: No.. no we don’t… The Ugly: This is the kind a Jazz that most of us don’t understand… The snob in me wants to give this a 5* rating without hesitation, and to tell you the truth, when the album presented itself this morning, I thought that I was in for a treat… I was a little wrong… Not that it was bad… it was just that I could have skipped half of the songs… and that, I guess, expels me from the snobby in-crowd fan club… Oh well… c’est la vie! 3*

Interesting academically, but not quite the enjoyable listen of Kind of Blue

*57 Anders’ favorit der kommer her :) Som følelseskatapult og opvisning i instrumentfærdighed, er det et super godt album. Som musik-oplevelse er vi nok nede på en 1'er. Jeg giver tre meget små stjerner til futuristic-anxiety-miles for at køre mig helt ud over kanten på en 56 år gammel LP.

3.5 Not sure how I feel about this. There were parts that were amazing, parts where I honestly felt a little nauseous. Definitely a really interesting work though

dog soup

A little bit spazzy but some cool sounds throughout as well.

No doubt Miles is a genius. And no doubting this is an album of great musicians at the top of their game. It’s just not quite for me.

I do not like dissonance, so disc 1 was hard to get through.

pleasant background music ig some songs are way way too long 3 only listened to disk 2, didn't finish disk 1

I enjoyed this, but didn't find it very conducive to working on spreadsheets.

The cover art is clearly set in the daytime, but I feel like this music is better in the dark somehow, where it can envelop me. I like Bennie Maupin's bass clarinet quite a bit, especially in the title song.

Nice to listen to while doing something else

Enjoyed that, felt like a big jam session. Album artwork top notch also 👌