Miles Davis: Miles Electric - A Different Kind of Blue (2004)
Directed by Murray Lerner
Genres - Music |
Sub-Genres - Biography, Instrumental Music, Music History |
Run Time - 87 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Perry Seibert
Widely considered one of the landmark albums in history and the starting point for jazz-rock fusion, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew ranked as one of the one hundred greatest albums of all time in a Rolling Stone magazine poll published in 1987. Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue captures Davis performing the album at the 1970 Isle of Weight Music Festival. Along with the music, interviews with performers as varied as Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell are included.
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jazz, musician, archival-footage, controversy, electric-guitar, funk-music, music-critic, music-festival, music-scene, reminiscence, rock-music, transition