Today is Miles Davis’ birthday – as Joe Zawinul said about him “a genius isn’t someone who invents one great thing and keeps doing it over and over again, a genius is someone who keeps changing and evolving” – In 1970 Miles and company (including tabla and sitar) cut a version of Crosby Stills and Nash’s “Guinnevere” – it sat in the vault for a decade. Had it come out at the time, it may have been a bigger game changer than even the Bitches Brew album was.
– Pat Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOMHWQ27tQ
