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    Looking Back On 'Bitches Brew': The Year Miles Davis Plugged Jazz In

    NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Christian McBride about the impact of Miles Davis' seminal album Bitches Brew — an electrified sound that ushered in decades of jazz fusion 50 years ago.
    by Audie Cornish Aug 21, 2019 1 minute
    Miles Davis performing at Newport Jazz Festival in 1969.

    Fifty years ago this August, assembled a group of musicians to record the sprawling, groundbreaking album . With the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Sly & the Family Stone and James Brown in his head, Davis plugged in and brought these host Christian McBride says the album's enigmatic sound was a departure for Davis — one that has rippled throughout music ever since.

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