Still honestly think this track is standalone incredible. Even on this monster of an album, it seems unique and organic. Its pulsing start is captivating, and leads you into something unforgettable.

One of the greatest jazz fusion/jazz rock pieces ever made in history, from one of my all time favorite jazz albums.

And this recording birthed Weather Report, Return To Forever and the Mahavisnu Orchestra!

Ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ba dum ba dum ba da dum ba da ba dum.... That intro was amazing

It's like something beautiful and yet unsettling, a pure trip

"Pharaoh's Dance" contains 19 edits - its famous stop-start opening is entirely constructed in the studio, using repeat loops of certain sections. Later on in the track there are several micro-edits: for example, a one-second-long fragment that first appears at 8:39 is repeated five times between 8:54 and 8:59. The title track contains 15 edits, again with several short tape loops of, in this case, five seconds (at 3:01, 3:07 and 3:12). Therefore, Bitches Brew not only became a controversial classic of musical innovation, it also became renowned for its pioneering use of studio technology.

From 16:38 until the end of the tune is just incredible to me.

I think one of my favorite parts of this song is the intro. The opening is some of the best tension building I've ever heard in a song and really sets the entire song and it's bizzare world. Another part is probably towards the end when for a brief period it slows down and all we are hearing is the slow build up to an epic conclusion. Can't get enough of this album, it's too different which is amazing.

This song gives me chills- like the jazz equivalent of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”.

This is my all time favorite Miles song, and I've listened to probably 75% of his pantheon of musical genius. There's just something that perfectly embodies a place he took Jazz that no one else could go .. I've listened to this song perhaps 300 times and it never even remotely gets old.

This music won't let you escape

This is a Zawinal, Miles Davis masterpiece! Classic. It builds up and up to an amazing groove and call n response improvisation. I always loved Bennie Maupins bass clarinet hauntingly Beautiful and creepy at the same time. Brilliant bitchen brew

This entire record (and for me in particular this track) just blows my mind every time. I guess it's timeless.

This is revolutionary. The epitome of jazz.

This music is absolute love; no condom.

everyone has their favorite moment of this song...mine is late, the repeated riff on the trumpet that's introduced with just the single bass note played over and over...i don't know...the last 5 or 6 minutes are my favorite music bits of all time...

First time I heard this album, it blew my mind. I had no idea music like this existed. I was 16 in the early 90s and had just started getting into jazz after I heard the Miles/Cannonball Adderley rendition of Autumn Leaves on the radio. I'd heard jazz before, but never really listened until then. That song also blew my mind. I went out and bought a Miles cassette that was something like Miles Davis The Capital Years I think, a compilation of mid to late 50s stuff. I liked it so much, I decided to buy another and got Bitches Brew based on the album art. It was a life changing experience. Totally changed my perception of what music is. This track in particular had a huge impact on me. I didn't even know what a bass clarinet was. I literally didn't know the names of the instruments being played. But I knew I was listening to music that came from a deep place I didn't know existed. Before that, I thought Jimmy Page was the GOAT. Lol

This has always reminded me of if aliens attempted to make music with human instruments

This to me always felt like Miles Davis plays Stravinsky ...with a little Afro Cuban thrown in the mix! ...always loved it! ...but could never find many to jump into this great music.

This song just feels so good. So much color and imagination.

I was listening to this record a few nights ago, while I was on a night-time coach. The coach got lost and I fell asleep. It was the weirdest experience ever.

It doesn't get any better than this..

This album is essential if you have an ear for music. Masterful sounds . Masterpiece album. The trumpet sounds my god. Everything about this album could only come from a musical genius. The last 5 mins on a bit of volume enough said.

Sometimes we get lost and find ourselves in a. crazy but challenging World .....the inner universe.he didńt make Music, he was living it!

So many people from the rock crowd claim that this is boring and overrated. Are you okay? Very few rock bands were interesting, most are just banal. This music explores new dimensions and makes you see images, you must be soulless if you think this is boring!

This sounds like the musical incarnate of paranoia. Absolutely brilliant

This is the most out there Jazz I've ever heard and I've loved this album for a lot of years. It's definitely still musical but it eludes a key or even a scale I can cling onto. The musicality to make this surpasses most listeners and It was a bold move to release this. It could not have happened anytime other than the 60's. The great thing about Acid in the 60s is it made people re-eavulate where the boundaries were? As it stands today this is a masterpiece of how far out it's possible to go and still be consumable as music. Genius. Luv and Peace.

Corea and Zawinul are probably the most underrated perfomers of that session but clearly the most genius.

I feel the apotheosis of experiencing the inner dimensions of matter and thought as a free-flowing stream of consciousness travels through the endless abyss, displaced and together. Unity and love. Freedom and possibilities.

starting with Miles' riff right around 8:30 ..... it is a fantastic-atonal roller coaster from there, it takes a while to get a trane like this rolling

this music tells a story, maybe not the same story to each of us..

great great great miles chasing the voodoo down.....

My most favorite percussion.

McLaughlin's playing on this thing is insane

Simply, this album changed music!

coolest music ever, love the intro

Zawinul and Miles such a great collaboration!

When they go to the curtain at around the 17 minute mark. There are so many beautiful changes and lyrics in this.

i'm sure Miles' ancestors were from the akan tribe,and elvin jones looks exactly like my uncle.Coltrane's face was mandinka but his music sounded more like yoriba style.Miles 'face and character were totally akan ,and his style of music is 500% akan.

Does jazz as psychedelic and wild as this exist anywhere else? I seriously can't think of another album like this. The notes linger and pulse in this kind of sea of sound, always free and organic but always tight and groovy.

MR MILES DAVIS WAS THE PHARAOH OF JAZZ DO YOU HEAR THE BLEND OF THE INSTRUMENTS ITS SO SMOOTH RIP MILES

Sublime. No other words

Hipnotic...

El mejor disco de la historia

9:00 Probably the greatest single part of any song, ever.

Like most Jazz, to the Rock ear, it must be heard over many listens to realize the many nuances in the individual playing and the counter play of the musicians. This song in particular builds and builds into an amazing crescendo and then slips back into its original roots.

it's a piece off psyche and fusion rock jazz !! it's a most a monument !! very good thinks to miles in the world

Meraviglioso emozionante unico. Una visione. Sembra di essere sospesi cullati dal suono.

Everything from 15:23 onwards. Eventually it becomes free flowing at 18:36. I have realised that Miles uses his trumpet like a human voice.

やっぱり最高‼️

What a song!!!!!!

Someone at 8:39 & 8:54 is picked up saying, "Hey, Jim." Never in 48 years have I heard that!

utterly phenomenal

I fell asleep listening to this a while back. I got transported to Sarajevo in the midst of snipers. When Mile's riff kicks in at 8:30 and explodes at 9:00, I saw the most barbaric things..dissection of babies, savagery of a different kind by unknown tribes. I remember jolting up and the music playing. I had never heard of the Snipers of Sarajevo. I googled immediately thinking this must mean something. To my utter disbelief, this was a real thing in the Bosnian civil war. Incredible. Just wondering how music does that...This album is pure psychedelics..Miles was definitely on a different wavelength than mere mortals.

my favorite melody

I love this cut. It hasn't lost its impact on me since I bought the record in 1971. It's chaotic, seemingly out of control but brilliant especially the last six or so minutes.

the musical definition of art

miles....the master of the master....COOL!!....

SUCH A GENIOUS!

Love, love, love it!!!

if you really dont have a damn idea why is this tune is called Pharaoh's dance, wait until you get to the end. at around 15:20 is a stop-start phrase. then Miles, like a damn pharoah orders all his slaves to start again, and keep going. the very ending pharse with all the notes of it is heard here, but in a really fragmented way. the piano players have their time to show off, improvise and all that shit. the band in the background rearrange once again, and all of a sudden, Miles comes in. like a pharoah. the band keeps going, and he just blows those eerie, out-of-this-world melody, which you cant forget once yue've heard. and he kepps it dancing, and makes you dancing too. he is the pharoah, and the band are his slaves, and we are his slaves too, listening to his dancing. this track and also the album is a masterpiece. if you get into mit, you'll never get out of it. it haunts you, it follows you, till the end of the time. fuck, i have to roll an another joint and play it again.

4:27-4:442 is ALL MY LIFE

star trek acid party sent me here

Ground breaking album

This sounds like going on field trip into the City.

A work of genius. Love the intro!

Imagine an alternate universe where all music is done through pianos and vocals and no other instruments exist other than maybe synths. A space ship sent to collect meteor bits returns with a small golden device that stores this on a disk that can only be played on another device found in the golden machine. When played we find it's this album. No explanation or ideas to what it could mean. That's how I think of this album when I listen to it anyways. I mean the noises on it are made from human devises but overall it's just so... Alien. It's almost disturbing.

電子音楽の幕開けと同時に、マイルスがJAZZの世界から飛び出した象徴的な作品。 ダブルドラム、重層的なリズムセクション・・・。

if you love Miles' music, I highly recommend you read his Autobiography. A very unique book & it gives a lot of insight into all his music, successes and struggles. In the end you realize that Miles, despite being elusive and saying few words in interviews, was very introspective & perceptive. The book is also *very* funny. Just be prepared for an onslaught of the word m****f**** LOL

i love the riff at 3 40

Joe Zawinul Rules 😎

Not contains twin peaks-freshly squeezed bass clarinet jazz style.

Que maravilla!!!

There's nothing in this album that isn't ahead of the game. But I'd never complain about the older stuff and quite liked the stuff after this. Even the "On the Corner".

Ha. I really remember the first time I heard Bitches. I didn’t believe my own ears

THANKS MASTER MILES FOR GUIDING ME WHEN I WAS LOST AND FULL OF DOUBTS: This is recorded in 432 hz i checked E natural harmonics on my 68' acoustic guitar (Martin D35).......this is the main reason while i choose to record my music in 432 hz over 440 hz.....cause 4 some reason Miles & friends did it here

Setting about the tempo of this piece certainly seems like a precursor to hardcore punk. Also I had no idea this is where the sample for sour grapes by Billy Woods came from.

4:50-5:11 makes me want to go crazy in the best way possible. I fucking LOVE that part

Anyone already listened to this while on mescaline? Wondering how this feels like.

i can´t be the only one who gets a feeling of similarity between this and "la fiesta" in stan getz´s captain marvel right? awesome

yes.... flying these cats are.....and makes one dance it does,,,,

I love this entire piece but 16:00 on just does me in every time.

Genius

fuck me what a journey

People say they can hear Bitches 'brewing' in In a Silent Way and preceding records but I don't believe it, even with complete hindsight. This record was a Cruise missile into the establishment and orthodoxy. Shock and Awe, absolutely breathtaking.

Article and appreciation today in the WSJ, 2/20-21/16 Review section Playlist'' on this.

What the heck kind of theory went into this? I really would be interested in knowing if there's any method to their madness or if it's purely freeflowing improvisation with a few composed sections.

The ominous approach of the impending horizon; binary duality dissolves into absurd conundrums blending each sense, perceiving no disparity between the enigmatic forms of gnosis revealed in plumes of dreamscape sound which capture eternal mysteries' apotheosis and the bizarre illimitable rapture of riffs revolving round symbols transcending all earthly knowledge. Awesome cosmic dance that speaks of numinous life, never ending wondrous firmament, induce this trance to contemplate its facets' endless bliss, the absolute and fathomless abyss.

Celebrating the life of Miles Davis on his birthday! We love this track, so we featured it in our blog: dailyhitofmusic.blogspot.com/2020/05/miles-davis.html

The video along with the song is even more chilling. Miles Davis PHARAOH'S DANCE kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMB5pMaikrWmlYE.html

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😃😃💚🌲

Fusion!!

3:32

coda!! coda is awesome !!! 15:19, and all the following melody.... wich mode is used by zawinull in this phrase?

Sounds like you are standing there sweating while a female panther is rubbing up against you.

Is there an end to time….????????

Why can I imagine like cartoon cockroaches dancing to this in like some cryptic art film? Good stuff though

No questions asked

Listened to all of the 20 minutes of this... i dont get it sorry ...