Rubberband captures a series of recording sessions that took place during this period, when Miles moved from Columbia Records to Warner Bros. in the summer of 1985, reflecting the legend's Reagan era of shiny pop-funk. Still searching for the sound of the street, he chose to reinterpret a diverse range of contemporary styles-jazz, funk, rock, calypso, Latin, and soul-in his own way.
Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet didn't just play jazz - they deconstructed it. Over two nights at Chicago's Plugged Nickel club in December 1965, Miles, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams dismantled their own repertoire in real time, embracing instability and risk in what they called their "anti-music" experiment. The result is one of the most revered live documents in jazz history, and it's finally returning to print after nearly 30 years.
The architect of the bestselling jazz album of all time, 1959's Kind of Blue, trumpeter Miles Davis is a towering figure in the history of the genre. Possessed of a piercing tone, innate melodic sensibility and a singularly uncompromising approach on the bandstand, Davis spent his five-decade career presiding over numerous stylistic shifts: bebop to cool jazz, modal jazz, electronic fusion, jazz funk and even hip-hop.
