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Just as Miles Davis achieved even greater success and absolute notoriety with his bold radical step into The Jazz-Rock Movement by the 1970’s which cultivated with the blockbuster extravaganza Bitches Brew and Live- Evil, he had decided to pay tribute to Jack Johnson--who was the first African-American boxing champion. A Tribute To Jack Johnson, released in 1971 to widespread acclaim and success, masterfully resolve some of the unfinished business and his full-fledged entry into jazz-rock where it became a perfect example for Miles’ imagination that was being channeled and focused by this project that originated from a documentary feature. Heralded by two half-hour tracks which begins with Right Off until it later ends with Yesternow, the empowering epic music emphasizes the boiling point intensity that matches the clubbing power and cat-like grace of Johnson have showed off in the ring, while the album is utilized By the fellow band members, like John McLaughlin on guitar, Herbie Hancock on a broken Farsifa Organ and Billy Cobham on drums. Released at the time when renewed interest in the legacy of Jack Johnson caught the public’s attention (Muhammad Ali even credited Johnson to be one of his main influential heroes), thanks in part to the Tony Award-winning stage play The Great White Hope in which James Earl Jones successfully reprised his role on film, what is ironic about A Tribute To Jack Johnson is the way Miles, a devout fan of boxing, shows his interest in the fight game and appreciated the social and cultural dimen- sion of Johnson’s life story in it’s more spacious and delicate atmosphere balance, First originated in a documentary film, A Tribute To Jack Johnson is truly hailed as one or Miles’ finest, which will always maintain it’s huge confident knockout edge.