![]() ![]() Start your Jacksonville Music Experience today by clicking the menu button below or LISTEN NOW on the menu at the top of the page and choose a station. Beginning with the following year’s Bitches Brew, Miles and a rotating roster of young players would take a deep dive into funk, psychedelic, and electronic wildness, creating the protean phase of jazz fusion. On pieces that are more suites than songs, Miles and the assembled band reduced the jazz language to the level of its diacritics, emphasizing the alphabet and building blocks of the music of improvisation, hushed swing (in particular Tony Williams’ driving hi-hat rhythms), and producer Teo Macero’s use of the studio as a kind of phantom collaborator. As he entered his early 40s, Miles ostensibly decided to electrify his life, which is what he exactly did with a group of diverse players from around the globe. Miles’s preceding four albums for Columbia incrementally pushed the “acoustic jazz” format to its saturation point, both through composition and extended group improvisation. ![]() Rock, jazz, soundtracks, even the future of prog and Krautrock, are all contained within the album. ![]() In some ways, In a Silent Way seems as if it has always been playing in the background. ![]()
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