Marcus Miller: Electric Miles Davis | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA

Miles Davis famously once said, “I have to change; it’s like a curse.“ And, that’s exactly what he did throughout his entire career. In 1969, the trumpet icon may have pulled off his greatest reinvention yet: he went “electric.” He turned the jazz world upside down. It was the beginning of what is commonly referred to as the Electric Miles period – groundbreaking, raw, controversial, and now, classic. “He had been evolving all along,” electric bassist (and Davis collaborator) Marcus Miller says about his idol. “In the same way that America’s evolution from the 1930s to the early ‘60s was absolutely an evolution. It was a revolution from the ‘60s to the ‘70s. And Miles’s music was the same.”