Considered the Initial Album of the Jazz Fusion Movement!

At the core of Bitches Brew, whose sessions took place the week after the Woodstock festival in August 1969, there was the final small group known as the “third great quintet” – Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, and Jack DeJohnette – augmented by John McLaughlin, Larry Young, Joe Zawinul, Bennie Maupin, Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Don Alias, Airto Moreira, and Harvey Brooks.

This double album was recorded in three days is often heralded as the first shot fired in the fusion movement. Davis had already spearheaded two major jazz movements (cool and modal jazz) and was about to initiate another major change (the album’s cover also sports the phrase “Directions In Music By Miles Davis” above the title.)

Miles Davis, primary artist, trumpet
Dave Holland, bass
Harvey Brooks, bass, electric bass, bass guitar, electric guitar
Bennie Maupin, bass clarinet
Airto Moreira, cuica, percussion
Don Alias, congas, drums, percussion
Jumma Santos, congas, percussion, shaker
Jack DeJohnette, drums
Lenny White, drums
Billy Cobham, drums
Chick Corea, electric piano
Larry Young, electric piano
John McLaughlin, guitar, electric guitar
Joe Zawinul, organ, electric piano
Jim Riley, percussion
Wayne Shorter, soprano saxophone