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| | The Music Box: Miles Davis - The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (Box Set/Album Review) |
 | | Yet, within the collection’s 6 hours of material, Davis’ genius is placed uniquely within a rather extraordinary spotlight, and the talent of the amazing array of musicians around which he surrounded himself causes each tune to mutate rather dramatically from one take to the next. |
| | Davis was notorious for vaguely guiding his team rather than providing concrete direction, and in recording A Tribute to Jack Johnson, he frequently left his musicians sitting in a room, biding their time until out of boredom, they embarked on an impromptu jam to which he added his fluid, playful solos. |
| | Davis increasingly had become infatuated with the styles of Sly Stone, James Brown, and Jimi Hendrix, and he utilized their hybridization of funk, blues, and rock as a starting point to reinvent jazz, which in turn greatly influenced rock bands such as the Grateful Dead, prompting these groups to reformulate their own music. |
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