Much has been written as to why Miles Davis began to merge his own style of modern jazz with the sounds and rhythms of rock: for the money, for the attention, for the reason that he simply could not deny the drive to musically explore. The best explanation of what he achieved is the music itself. His almost single-handed success in tearing down the wall between jazz and rock is captured in the three albums below, recorded by Miles' expanding and increasingly amplified group from 1969 to 1970.
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