Miles Davis – Water Babies (CD)

Recorded during the fertile late-'60s sessions that surrounded "Filles de Kilimanjaro" and the birth of electric Miles, "Water Babies" captures a transitional moment when Davis was quietly dismantling the rules of post-bop and replacing them with something far more open and restless. Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock are both present, making this a document of the classic second great quintet at the edge of its own evolution.