With Understanding Comes Appreciation
First off, look at this ridiculous unit:
-John McLaughlin / electric guitar (One of fusion's most virtuosic guitar soloists. He placed his blazing speed in the service of a searching spiritual passion that has kept his music evolving and open to new influences)
-Herbie Hancock / electric piano (He will always be one of the most revered and controversial figures in jazz, just as his employer/mentor Miles Davis was when he was alive)
-Chick Corea / electric piano (A masterful and creatively wide-ranging jazz pianist. He was a celebrated performer whose influential albums found him exploring harmonically adventurous post-bop, electric fusion, Latin traditions, and classical)
-Tony Williams / drums (One of the most influential drummers in jazz history. His open style implied the beat rather than rode it via the use of metric modulation and polyrhythms. Tony’s playing was articulated by his wide-ranging interests in jazz, rock, funk, and blues)
-Wayne Shorter / tenor saxophone (One of jazz's leading figures in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as both a composer and saxophonist)
-Joe Zawinul / organ, electric piano (Joe belonged in a category unto himself -- a European from the heartland of the classical music tradition (Vienna) who learned to swing as freely as any American jazzer, and whose appetite for growth and change remained insatiable)
-Dave Holland / double bass (An acclaimed, ever-evolving jazz bassist. He is a gifted improvisor and composer whose work has touched on acoustic post-bop, avant-garde jazz, and fusion)
and the star of the show...
-Miles Davis / trumpet (A monumental innovator, icon, and maverick trumpeter. He helped define the course of jazz as well as popular culture in the 20th century, bridging the gap between bebop, modal music, funk, and fusion)
LOL!
I mean, should I have even made a review of this record after putting this? Literally you should be already sold, and start listening to this gem (again)… but for those who are not that familiar with the genius or the album and ultimately, for the sake of my love to this treasure (top 10 in my all-time book), here we go…