Thoughts on Bitches Brew (by Miles Davis)

-This album changed the way I listened to  and even thought about music
 It really opened up my head to all the possibilities in music and it is the album that helped
 me start to get rid of my musical prejudices

-The heart of the album is improvisation .. . . most of the music on there was created in the
 moment

-There is form in the music, but it is so  simple and so elastic it is almost non-existent
 This showed me that simplicity is the real key to complexity

-This is DENSE music!  With as many as 12  people playing at the same time, the density and
 texture approaches orchestra levels, yet it never sounds too cluttered

-Not only is form elastic, but everything  else is too: rhythm, melody, harmony, dynamics, 
 time itself . . . to paraphrase Miles, everything's "lose and tight at the same time"