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Bitches Brew is a studio double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released on March 30, 1970 on Columbia Records.

Reception.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz called Bitches Brew “one of the most remarkable creative statements of the last half-century, in any artistic form. It is also profoundly flawed, a gigantic torso of burstingly noisy music that absolutely refuses to resolve itself under any recognized guise.”

Reviewing for Rolling Stone in 1970, Langdon Winner said Bitches Brew shows Davis’s music expanding in “beauty, subtlety and sheer magnificence”, finding it “so rich in its form and substance that it permits and even encourages soaring flights of imagination by anyone who listens”.

Track listing:
1. “Pharaoh’s Dance” – 0:00
2. “Bitches Brew” – 20:05
3. “Spanish Key” – 47:04
4. “John McLaughlin” – 01:04:38
5. “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” – 01:09:06
6. “Sanctuary” – 01:23:09
7. “Feio” (bonus) – 01:34:02

Personnel:
“Bitches Brew”
“John McLaughlin”
“Sanctuary” (Shorter)
Recorded Columbia Studio B, New York City August 19, 1969

Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
Joe Zawinul – electric piano – Left
Chick Corea – electric piano – Right
John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Dave Holland – bass
Harvey Brooks – electric bass
Lenny White – drum set – Left
Jack DeJohnette – drum set – Right
Don Alias – congas
Juma Santos (credited as “Jim Riley”) – shaker, congas
On “John McLaughlin” omit Brooks, Shorter and Davis
On “Sanctuary” omit Maupin, Brooks and White

“Miles Runs the Voodoo Down”
Recorded Columbia Studio B, New York City August 20, 1969

Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
Joe Zawinul – electric piano – Left
Chick Corea – electric piano – Right
John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Dave Holland – electric bass
Harvey Brooks – electric bass
Don Alias – drum set – Left
Jack DeJohnette – drum set – Right
Juma Santos (credited as “Jim Riley”) – congas
“Spanish Key”
“Pharaoh’s Dance” (Joe Zawinul)
Recorded Columbia Studio B, New York City August 21, 1969

Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
Joe Zawinul – electric piano – Left
Larry Young – electric piano – Center
Chick Corea – electric piano – Right
John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Dave Holland – bass
Harvey Brooks – electric bass
Lenny White – drum set – Left
Jack DeJohnette – drum set – Right
Don Alias – congas
Juma Santos (credited as “Jim Riley”) – shaker
“Feio” (Wayne Shorter)
Recorded Columbia Studio B, New York City January 28, 1970

Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
Joe Zawinul – electric piano – Left
Chick Corea – electric piano – Right
John McLaughlin – electric guitar
Dave Holland – electric bass
Billy Cobham – drum set – Left
Jack DeJohnette – drum set – Right
Airto Moreira – percussion and cuica