Miles in the Sky

A crucial transitional album where Miles Davis began to fully embrace electric instruments and rock-influenced rhythms. It's the sound of the Second Great Quintet gracefully evolving, with one foot in acoustic post-bop and the other stepping into jazz fusion. The track 'Stuff' is the clearest signpost to the future, with Herbie Hancock's Fender Rhodes electric piano changing the band's texture and Tony Williams's drumming shifting to a straight, even 8th-note pulse.