Bitches Brew project in de Spieghel
Vrijdag 20 april, de Spieghel te Groningen, 23:30:
I.s.m. Stichting Jazz in groningen: BITCHES BREW PROJECT
Bitches Brew
Bitches Brew is an album recorded by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1969 and released in 1970.
Recorded during three days (August 19–August 21, 1969), immediately after the end of the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York, Bitches Brew incorporated electric instruments, such as electric piano and guitar, and mostly rejected traditional jazz rhythms in favor of a looser, funk-influenced improvisational style.
The two-LP/CD set contains mostly very long tracks, improvisations on pieces that were largely written on the spot. Instead of the mostly diatonic style of cool jazz, Bitches Brew often favored dissonance.
The term 'voodoo music' has been applied to describe this new sound.
Some jazz fans and musicians felt the album was crossing the limits, or was not jazz at all. One critic writes that "Davis drew a line in the sand that some jazz fans have never crossed, or even forgiven Davis for drawing."
On the other hand, many fans, critics, and musicians see the records as an important, vital release. In a 1997 interview, drummer Bobby Previte sums up his feelings about Bitches Brew thusly: "Well, it was groundbreaking, for one. How much groundbreaking music do you hear now? It was music that you had that feeling you never heard quite before. It came from another place. How much music do you hear now like that?"
Joost Swart - Fender Rhodes + muzikale leiding
Floris Vermeulen - bas
Harry Arling -drums
Roselino Marinello -basklarinet en saxen
Fabrizio Brusca - gitaar
Cees Bruinsma - trompet
Stefan Hristov - tabla
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