Miles Davis’ Album On the Nook Tried to Woo Younger Rock & Funk Followers: First Thought of a Catastrophe, It is Now Hailed as a Masterpiece

Miles Davis did­n’t put out any stu­dio albums from 1973 till the mid­dle of 1981. In clarify­ing the rea­sons for this lacu­na in his report­ing profession, Milesol­o­gists can level to a vari­ety of fac­tors within the man’s professional­fes­sion­al and per­son­al life. However one in par­tic­u­lar looms giant: the fail­ure of his 1972 album On the…