The “Greatest Rock and Roll Band You Have Ever Heard”: Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, and Co. Merge Electric Fusion and Defiant Rock on the Funky, Freeing A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Sourced from the Original Analog Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition 180g SuperVinyl 33RPM LP Presents 1971 Landmark in Exuberant, Full-Range Sound
1/4″ / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe

Miles Davis’ A Tribute to Jack Johnson is the best jazz-rock record ever made. Equally inspired by the leader’s desire to assemble the “greatest rock and roll band you have ever heard,” his adoration of Johnson, and Black Power politics, Davis created a hard-hitting set that surges with excitement, intensity, majesty, and power. Bridging the electric fusion he’d pursued on earlier efforts with a funkier, dirtier rhythmic approach, Davis zeroes in on concepts of spontaneity, freedom, and identity seldom achieved in the studio — and just as infrequently accepted by the mainstream.