Album Challenge - 1970 pt. 3 - Miles

The Album Challenge continues... another important album released in 1970 that influenced my taste in music was Bitches Brew from Miles Davis. I saw him and his band perform this music on his 1970 tour at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. It was an incredible experience and that record and performance deeply influenced my taste in jazz rock and fusion music over the next several years. 

I would buy that vinyl album that year when home on leave and a little over a decade later I would also get the CD.  Then eventually I got the Complete Bitches Brew Sessions 4 CD box set.

A lot of my favorite jazz rock musicians played on that album including Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, John McLaughlan, Dave Holland, Joe Zawinul, Larry Young, Jack DeJohnette and so many more.

I read the Miles Davis autobiography back in 1995 and he was highly entertaining describing his life and music. He had some very choice words to say about opening up for the Steve Miller Band on that 1970 tour. I was so blown away by Miles that for years I had forgotten who the other two bands were that played that show. I did see many concerts in Chicago during the time I was stationed near Chicago.