| | |  | Music | Home » » Bitches Brew [Vinyl] | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | One of the most revered Miles Davis' albums, Bitches Brew is brought to you on 180 gram double vinyl with a gatefold opening that includes extended artwork and printed commentary. ©2008 Sony BMG | | | Product Details: | | | Vinyl Release Date:
| April 14, 2009 | | Studio:
| Sony Legacy | | Number Of Discs:
| 2 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 15 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | Disc: 1 | | | 1. | Pharaoh's Dance - Miles Davis, Zawinul, Joe | | 2. | Bitches Brew | | | Disc: 2 | | | 1. | Spanish Key | | 2. | John McLaughlin | | 3. | Miles Runs the Voodoo Down | | 4. | Sanctuary | | 5. | Feio [*] - Miles Davis, Shorter, Wayne | |
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 Davis rulesMay 17, 2010
I already loved this album but getting it on vinyl is the icing on the cake. It sounds so good.
 The music is great, but the noise...Aug 29, 2009
This is undoubtedly one of the greatest albums of all time in any genre.
I already own it in other formats so the content was in no way a surprise.
However, I expected the vinyl to be almost a revelation sound-wise. This is not the case.
The record has a lot of noise. This is probably not surface noise, but tape hiss. I am really bewildered as to how 40 year old can degrade so much. Other recordings of that period still sound great and dead silent.
This is still worth buying since the music is amazing, but I still consider it a bit of a disappointment as I expected so much more.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
taveling miles#8 Bitches Brew - What did bitches brew? -May 04, 2009
Probanly so many miles's funs may have been waiting for this "bitches brew".
There are three stickers written 180 gram,DOUBLE album and LEGACY VINYL on seald of this record. And I find that the color of cover art is a little light. So Bitches Brew's blue sky looks like a cloudy sky and Bitches Brew's blue sea looks like lead-grey sea. But I think that this pale color is just like the color of photograph getting pale. The cover art of "Bitches Brew" has got pale for 40 years. Or "Bitches Brew" has grown old for 40 years. It is interesting for me that I can think so. Anyway this re-newal jacket is good! In fact if you can watch this cover art of "Bitches Brew" carefully, you can find that the thought of black beauty girl rises to the sky and it becomes thunder in the cloud and its lightning drops the sea and its waves beat upon a black beauty couple locking in each others arms. What is this girl brewing? This beautiful and interesting cover art was painted by Mati klarwein.
When you take out lp record, you can feel comfotable heft of it and you can see the letters of COLUMBIA and one eye along scarlet circle of the center of record is gold. Phahaps you will be able to think this record jacket and record is beautiful. And when you put this record on phonograph,you can listen and recoginize how the great sounds changed music times in the world is and what bitches brew! Well,what did bitches brew?
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
really great albumDec 01, 2007
I WISH THIS ALBUM WAS AVAILABLE 'NEW' FROM AMAZON!
UNFORTUNATELY I BOUGHT THIS FROM A STREET VENDOR IN SOHO & THE RECORD WAS SCRATCHED ON THE LAST 2 TUNES! I PURCHASED ANOTHER 'USED' COPY HERE WHICH IS IN BETTER SHAPE - I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IT HERE FIRST!
Anyway, I really love it, and I am very happy with it. I especially love track 3, I play it every morning before work!
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Legendary album revisited...Nov 28, 2007
Now, before I get flamed to death, I want to say this: I consider myself a pretty big Miles Davis fan. I have heard somewhere around 45 of his recordings, including every studio album released in his life time but Star People, and five live discs. And this includes obscurities like Amandala (Which is, admittedly, pretty bad) and Dig (which is actually quite good). I even consider the oft-slagged Big Fun one of Miles' best albums. And it's not that I don't enjoy his electric work - quite to the contrary, In a Silent Way is debatably my favorite Miles Davis album, and I've heard plenty.
But with all that said, I just don't "get" this one. Or, should I say, I don't get about half of it. One of the things that made Silent Way work so well was the communication between the octet (Miles Davis plus Wayne Shorter on sax; John McLaughlin on guitar; Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Joe Zawinul on keyboards; Dave Holland on bass; and Tony Williams on drums). But the small army on this record does not communicate well, since there are just so MANY of them, it gets overwhelming. And the absence of Hancock (whose solo work often borders on genius, I'll add - or, as on Headhunters, The Prisoner, and Empyrean Isles, crosses that line) and Williams (my favorite drummer ever) does not help its case. Secondly, and more importantly, a couple of these songs bore me. "Pharaoh's Dance", by Zawinul, is just awful, spending twenty minutes trying and failing to touch on a decent groove. Out of those twenty minutes, not one is enjoyable. It just meanders on and on, a bunch of spacey, proto-ambient junk. And I never got the draw of ambient music. The record's other loser is "Sanctuary". Wayne Shorter penned it, and while I have nothing against him (in fact I love several of his tunes written for Miles' "second great quintet", most notably "Footprints" and "Nefertiti"), this draws an eleven-minute blank. I guess it's kinda soothing, but it's just background music. Nothing engaging about it whatsoever. The damn thing just drifts along aimlessly in a way that nothing from Silent Way ever did (though it does have a similar sound, I'll grant it that). No me gusta. No me gusta the first and last six minutes of "Spanish Key", either. The first six are funky but dull vamping. Then, after those six end, things really get going. Shorter steals the show with a haunting soprano sax solo (See? Told you I had nothing against him), and Miles and McLaughlin keep the train running for awhile. Then it dissolves into what can best be described as "virtuoso noodling".
Now, before I get dragged to pillory, let's get to the goods. You wanna know what the best song is here? And not just the best, but arguably the pinnacle of the electric period? (though "It's About That Time" and "What I Say" give it a run for its money, I'll admit). I'll tell you what it is: This album's title track. I'd call myself blown away by a lot of things: the build-up; the haunting, echoing, vibrato-laden trumpet theme; the numerous solos; the menacing yet fascinating nature of the piece in general. In my opinion, it's one of the greatest works of art of our time. Never mind that it's a half-hour long. That half-hour will fly by. I assure you. Another great classic all-powerful song is "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down", which again leaves me in absolute awe, for several reasons. The voodoo groove; McLaughlin's guitar; Miles' trumpet; the bass part (I won't even hazard a guess at who played it). My third favorite is "John McLaughlin", a showcase for G. Gordon Liddy. Wait, wait, hold on, I got my cue cards mixed up... John McLaughlin. Not crazy masochist Nixon ("I AM NOT A CROOK!") stooge. It's supposed to be the third part of the title track, which began as a five-part suite, though only three were used: two for the song itself, one for "McLaughlin". It's also the shortest song on the album, a mere 4:26.
So, right, that's all I got to say. Great musicianship all around (it IS a Miles Davis record, after all), and some really good tunes - title track; "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down"; "John McLaughlin"; a third of "Spanish Key". Hey, if you were to take those four, you'd have a standard-length single album that was arguably Miles' best ever! Now that would've been impressive. For now, though, B*tches Brew leaves me cold. There are a ton of Miles discs that are better than this one, I think. But hey, that's just me. I'm weird.
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