For me this is one of those albums where long tracks don't necessarily = 'great'. It's not that I dislike the album. It's a bold musical statement from an artist who surrounded himself with (more than) competent players and was not afraid to push the boat out. I enjoy the music, but it's also easy enough to kind of lose focus during the extended noodling and start thinking about sandwiches or some such thing.
I think this is an album that needed to happen for Miles to move ahead, to really stretch out and explore and move to the next part of his career, certainly I prefer Miles' "Big Fun" album that was recorded in the next few years after this.
Something like this is not necessarily an album that would ever get made (or sell the equivalent of half a million copies in its first year) in this day and age. I guess the 70s were a slightly more adventurous time in music.
(beautiful album cover too)
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