The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions

The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions is a four-disc box set of music recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis. The set collects all tracks Davis recorded between August 19, 1969 and February 6, 1970, including the 1970 double album Bitches Brew in its entirety. However, the title of the box set is somewhat of a misnomer: outside of the Bitches Brew tracks themselves, none of the other tracks appeared on Bitches Brew upon its original release, nor were they recorded during the same August 1969 sessions that resulted in Bitches Brew. Furthermore, additional material recorded for, but not used in Bitches Brew, is not included in this set; mainly rehearsal takes and unedited performances of the six album tracks. These have however later been illegally bootlegged and given the titles Deep Brew Vol. 1 and Vol. 2).

When questioned by Paul Tingen why most of the material in fact was not recorded either for or at the same sessions as the original album, re-issue producer Bob Belden cleared up how their thought process went. According to him and the engineer all the songs Miles Davis recorded between August 1969 and early February 1970 used very similar line-ups to those on Bitches Brew and the main thing they all had in common was the emphasis on keyboards. Every song here includes two to three keyboard players, most often Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock. It wasn't until late in February 1970 that Davis refined his concept by dropping the multiple electric pianists and going...
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