Anything similar to Bitches Brew?

Now a lot of people call Bitches Brew the first fusion album because of it's use of electric instruments, but it in no way sounds like the meeting of jazz and rock from which fusion takes its name like mahavishnu, passport or nucleus do. Bitches Brew is its own thing... ad I want more! Did any other artists follow in Mile's soni footsteps and create something similar? I don't enjoy any other Miles record, not even the albums that usually get lumped in with BB as part of that era of his music like jack Johnson, on the corner or in a silent way, so I'm left with only the one record to quench my thirst. Can anyone recommand anything with a somewhat similar feel to this all-time classic?

Might like this:

Honestly, Herbie Hancock's albums "Mwandishi", "Crossings", and "Sextant" all were made with the Bitches Brew "spirit". Those albums are probably the closest to the BB sound you will find

darkshade wrote: Honestly, Herbie Hancock's albums "Mwandishi", "Crossings", and "Sextant" all were made with the Bitches Brew "spirit". Those albums are probably the closest to the BB sound you will find

You won't find a carbon-copy of Bitches Brew anywhere.

seb2112 wrote: Abraxas wrote: You won't find a carbon-copy of Bitches Brew anywhere. But I think you should insist with listening more to the Mwandishi albums, In a Silent Way by Miles, as well as Big Fun and Get Up With It. Also, Weather Report's debut and I Sing the Body Electric. Electric Byrd by Donald Byrd is a good choice too. Emergency! by Tony Williams Lifetime isn't really similar stylistically to Bitches, but it's an earlier "jazz rock" record that might be worth checking out. Raw rockish jams played by innovative jazz musicians. I've given Hancock and Miles albums many chances and I just can't get into it, believe me I tried. Weather report is too smooth for my tastes. I'll look up this byrd guy though, never heard him.   I'm already into Lifetime, although I find them quite hit and miss

Abraxas wrote: seb2112 wrote: Abraxas wrote: You won't find a carbon-copy of Bitches Brew anywhere. But I think you should insist with listening more to the Mwandishi albums, In a Silent Way by Miles, as well as Big Fun and Get Up With It. Also, Weather Report's debut and I Sing the Body Electric. Electric Byrd by Donald Byrd is a good choice too. Emergency! by Tony Williams Lifetime isn't really similar stylistically to Bitches, but it's an earlier "jazz rock" record that might be worth checking out. Raw rockish jams played by innovative jazz musicians. I've given Hancock and Miles albums many chances and I just can't get into it, believe me I tried. Weather report is too smooth for my tastes. I'll look up this byrd guy though, never heard him.   I'm already into Lifetime, although I find them quite hit and miss Sorry man, but I really don't believe you. 'I Sing the Body Electric' is anything but smooth. And while I can understand that you can't get into Miles other stuff and Hancock, which are indeed no easy affairs, try to find the "Bitches Brew-substance" in those records and you'll probably be able to enjoy those records more. Of course, if you've had enough of them, fine, but seriously those are the records that you should check out.

Go ahead and convince me then! Post your favorite track from all those records and I will gladely give them a dedicated ear

Dick Heath wrote: [QUOTE] Now a lot of people call Bitches Brew the first fusion album because of it's use of electric instruments, [QUOTE]   We went through this debate 10 years ago at Prog Archives, and if anybody cares to do some research then this statement falls apart. MIles Davis took an underground music making it more popular by taking it temporarily overground to big audiences. The second episode of the Jazz Britannia series on BBC TV a few years back suggested jazz rock fusion goes back to ~63 with the likes of Graham Bond and Georgie Fame - which I find is pushing it . (Indeed when did the genre of rock get separated from rock'n'roll?). Stuart Nicholson in his excellent book on the subject, Jazz Rock: A History reviews American jazz rock pre-1965 - the Miles Davis chapter is several into the book.   I suspect Miles davis was too impatient to record the same sort of music twice, but I did have a go trying find something similar to Bitches,  and one of the belatedly issued live at Fillmore recorded about the time of Bitches' releases, may be as close as you can get..   I think after MIles' death Tony Williams gathered a number of former Davis sidemen together for a MIles Tribute, with Wallace Rooney taking MIles role.   Vossabrygg is supposed to be Bitches Brew influenced, but with the several of musicans involved having said Miles was a godfather to nu.fusion, then it is tless surprising that this is a nu.fusion take.

Why has BB nothing to do with actual fusion? That is new to me. 

harmonium.ro wrote: Why has BB nothing to do with actual fusion? That is new to me.