so the question is:
50's Miles, 60's Miles, or 70's Miles?
listening to some Miles at the fillmore, March 7th 1970, right now... and this stuff is so delightfully non-musical that it makes a full revolution back around to hyper-musical. i dig it intensely, but i can see how some people just wouldn't get it, or might even despise it.
like for example, he just jammed for li ke 10 minutes on a sort of anti-mode where every note was totally dissonant, but the phrasing was timed and resolved in such a way that it ended up sounding very coherent, but totally mad at the same time. there's deep genius in his stuff from the 70's, but its absolutely labyrinthine and definitely less accessible than his earlier work.