Free Fusion: When Avant-Garde Jazz Shakes Its Ass

My good friend’s excellent essay on the pillars of kozmigroov has just been published on DeepWater. Congratulations Doug! Here’s the first para:

In 1969, Miles Davis profoundly altered the genetic makeup of jazz with In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew.  Impressionistic, enigmatic, and intoxicating:  the former possessed a concentrated beauty that contrasted with the latter’s oceanic scope.  Each introduced aberrant grooves, electric tonal colours, and post-production methods that were then unfamiliar, if not entirely alien, to the jazz idiom.  Because of their extensive influence, these two recordings are widely recognized as the ones that crystallized the somewhat nebulous genre of jazz fusion.

The rest of the piece can be read here.