Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions

The Jack Johnson Sessions represent a stunning crossroads where boxing, the Black Power movement, the development of rock music as an expression of vast changes in American society, the electronic amplification of jazz, and Miles Davis all came together. That the music heard on this newly released five-CD set was boiled down to a mere (hour-plus??) soundtrack album, with snippets turning up on Live-Evil and Get Up with It, is amazing. Listening to the music here, most of which has never been released previously, is like finding out something new about someone you thought you knew well.