Of all the
Miles Davis recordings, the 16 weeks of sessions that created a single, two-selection LP produced by
Teo Macero called
A Tribute to Jack Johnson have been the most apocryphal. While the album itself was a confounding obscurity upon release -- due to its closeness in proximity to the nearly simultaneous release of the vastly inferior yet infinitely more label-promoted
Live at the Fillmore East -- its reputation as the first complete fusion of jazz and rock is cemented. It also garnered a place in the history books for guitarist
John McLaughlin, the axis around whose raw, slash-and-burn playing the entire album turns.