Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969)

I went through quite a few vinyl copies of 'Kind of Blue' and 'In a Silent Way', the two Miles Davis albums that I've always cherished the most. I'd put them on the turntable at least twice a month, which worked out to more than 100 plays over five years — not good for LP life, so you had to alternate among a few copies.

This more or less marks Davis's first foray into fusion. Amazingly, it's also the most lyrical, atmospheric and mind-expanding of his jazz-rock recordings.