"In a Silent Way" (Miles Davis)

For as wild and funky as Miles Davis and his collaborators got on 1970's Bitches Brew, I prefer In A Silent Way (1969) and its smooth yet thrilling title track.  
Davis had flirted with mixing electric instruments and rock textures into jazz starting with the album Miles in the Sky (1968).  But this was the first time he went full-on switched-on--with stunning results.
The song "In A Silent Way" is really a three-part medley of two pieces: the majestic, ethereal "In A Silent Way," which bookends the undulating "It's About That Time."  
There's very little in the way of typical jazz soloing on the track; no one steps into the spotlight for his 12 bars and then lets the guy next to him blow for his 12 bars, in other words.  It's more about everyone contributing to the texture of the music and keeping the groove tight, with Wayne Shorter contributing a short but expressive passage on soprano sax followed by Davis doing the same on horn.
The title aptly describes the feeling of the song.  I always envision snow falling in the midst of an urban landscape--Mother Nature blanketing the city with a delicate, frozen calm and a pin-drop silence that envelopes the world before the snow plows have a chance to disrupt it all.  (Or at least that's how it sounded during yesterday's blizzard here in New York.)