Nefertiti is an album by the American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1968 by Columbia Records.
Nefertiti was the final all-acoustic album of Davis' career. Starting with his next album, Miles in the Sky, Davis began to experiment with electric instruments, marking the dawn of his electric period.
Critical reception
Nefertiti has been received positively by critics. DownBeat writer Howard Mandel said it "seems perched on the cusp" of innovation, with "perfectly pitched" performances and trumpet ideas marked by "cyclical melodies, subdued in mood and sonically bejeweled", but lamented that the solos "revert to regular rhythms", limiting the music from more transcendent possibilities. although he later called the Second Great Quintet "my least favorite Miles—not that I think it's bad, but I've always found [Wayne] Shorter too cool." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic was more enthusiastic about its relatively subtler "charms" while finding it a clear forerunner to the jazz fusion that followed: "What's impressive, like on all of this quintet's sessions, is the interplay, how the musicians follow an unpredictable path as a unit, turning in music that is always searching, always provocative, and never boring."