Miles Davis, "A Tribute To Jack Johnson" (1970)

By Pico

The successful jazz-rock experiments Miles Davis oversaw in 1969 with the one-two punch of In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew were plenty enough to forever put his mark on the genre and was even good enough for his induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame. But the restless jazz legend felt he was just getting warmed up and by the end of the year declared "I could put together the greatest rock 'n roll band you ever heard". When he walked into Columbia’s New York studio with his supporting musicians on April 7, 1970 to record the basic tracks for the album that became A Tribute To Jack Johnson, he made a strong case for backing up that statement.

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