Davis had already mixed electric instruments into his quintets, but Bitches Brew expanded and further amplified this with ensembles of as many as 12 other players who skillfully blended jazz with rock elements while leaving ample room for improvisation for both Davis and his fellow players such as Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland who artistically were veterans of his quintet, along with Bennie Maupin, John McLaughlin, Harvey Brooks, Billy Cobham and Lenny White
The case of the slashed and cut out canvases which Bacon put in a refuse bag, but which were recovered by his electrician, surfaced when, many years later, the electrician placed the dismembered shreds, mostly heads with the faces cut out, in Ewbanks auctions in Surrey
Even the sound was deliberately against the grain, from touches such as the mouth bow harp-like Clavinet of "Up on Cripple Creek" to the overall woody sound of the album
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