London Brew
DOWNTOWN MUSIC/CONCORD JAZZ
9/10
THERE have been plenty of projects where artists have faithfully covered entire classic albums – from to , from to – putting a respectful spin on the existing melodies and chords. , Miles Davis’s groundbreaking 1970 double album and a regular in ‘best ever’ polls, is one canonical release that resists such treatment. It is not a record that can be transcribed and reduced to dots on a page. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to hum any is also the product of a very particular methodology: musicians improvising freely over a thick, dissonant fug. The chords barely change. Melodies or riffs are rarely repeated.
