Exactly half a century ago, on March 30, 1970, an album by Miles Davis called Bitches Brew was released. The album radically changed the whole picture of jazz, laid the foundations for new musical styles - jazz-rock, fusion, psychedelic jazz - and determined the development of improvised music for the coming decades. The eternal revolutionary at the crossroads By the late 1960s, Miles Davis was at a crossroads. On the one hand, it seemed that life and career have developed as well as possible. Barely over forty years old, he was already a recognized classic of jazz, and one of the coolest, most fashionable and popular stars of American culture and show business. Three deaths and half a dozen lives: a quarter of a century without Miles Davis A Love Supreme: 50th Anniversary of a Jazz Masterpiece Jazz: expansion, fragmentation, evolution and… freedom As a 19-year-old youth, he staked out his place in history by taking part in the revolutionary, laying the foundations of modern jazz