1970 · Bitches Brew
Miles's 1969–70 studio experiments fused rock's rhythmic sensibility with jazz improvisation. Bitches Brew
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Bennie Maupin
0 albums as leader and 7 as sideman (1968–2013), each listed chronologically.
As Sideman · 7
Notes on these albums · 5
Miles Davis
Jack DeJohnette
Dave Holland1968 · Tender Moments
Howard Johnson, jazz's foremost tuba specialist, is credited on Jaco Pastorius's self-titled 1976 debut — the album that redefined what the electric bass could do. He plays a marching-band instrument that has almost no other place in fusion.
1968 · Caramba
Cedar Walton's longtime drummer Billy Higgins is a name in the small print of countless records. But in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, he built a place called The World Stage, gathering and encouraging young musicians. He was never only a player.
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Cedar Walton1973 · Head Hunters
The early-70s Mwandishi band was commercially unsuccessful but laid the groundwork for the Headhunters pivot.
sourced2013 · BOB A Palindrome
In 1982, when Wynton asked his brother Branford who he knew for a new band, the answer was: call Kenny Kirkland, and put Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Watts was an unknown Berklee student at the time; that single recommendation set the entire rhythm section of Wynton's 1980s quartet and put both men on the map.
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Kenny Kirkland
Jeff "Tain" Watts
Wynton Marsalis
Branford Marsalis