Miles Davis On The Corner boxset (Director’s cut of review originally published in The Wire) During 1972, Miles Davis began to play Stockhausen’s Hymnen on the cassette machine in his Lamborghini. On October 21st, 1972, he crashed the sports car. TheComplete On the Corner Sessions is a record of an era in which speed, technology, modernism popular culture shared the same crash site. The six-CD box set, which includes twelve previously unreleased tracks, and several not before heard in the...
