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I've had the opposite experience. Kind of Blue never grabbed me. I've always been drawn to Avant Garde jazz first and foremost. I was introduced to it via Flying Lotus and heard him mention BB in an interview. I recognize that Kind of Blue is a beloved album, but I've listened to BB a hundred times.

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If you're a fan of both Flying Lotus and Bitches Brew, you should check out Miles Davis' album On The Corner, which came out two years after Bitches Brew. It feels like a direct precursor to hip-hop and a lot of the sample-based music that gained popularity in the 1980s, partly due to the tape splicing and looping that was done in the studio and partly because of the extremely wide set of influences that got stirred together on that record.

It still sounds fantastically weird.

Awesome, I'll check that out

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