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Circle: Tower
by Mark Corroto
What if, in 1969 Miles Davis' band took the stage and began playing the trumpeter's introduction, but Miles never made the gig?
Chick Corea and/or Joe Zawinul run through choruses of those science fiction, electric piano and synthesizer notes while Jack DeJohnette blends his jazz and world music drumming--that is, years before we called it world music.
John McLaughlin, fresh off Davis' instructions to play it like you don't know how to play the guitar, channels R&B, rock and noise ...
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