Vinyl Wednesday: Miles Davis - On The Corner
Miles Davis was punished for this album when it came out, people didn't buy it and critics didn't like it..
Wikipedia:Following his turn to fusion in the late 1960s and the release of rock- and funk-influenced albums such as
Bitches Brew (1970) and
Jack Johnson (1970), Miles Davis received substantial criticism from the jazz community.
Critics accused him of abandoning his talents and pandering to commercial trends, though his recent albums had been commercially unsuccessful by his standards. Other jazz contemporaries, such as Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Gil Evans defended Davis; the latter stated that "jazz has always used the rhythm of the time, whatever people danced to". In early 1972, Davis began conceiving
On the Corner as an attempt to reconnect with the young African-American audience which had largely forsaken jazz for the groove-based music of Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown.
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I find it quite adventorous. Listen yourself:
on 19/07/2017
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