Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Alternative Press	4/5
Christgau's Record Guide	B+
Down Beat (1983)
Down Beat (2001)
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
MusicHound Jazz	4/5
Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

On the Corner is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in June and July 1972 and released later that year on Columbia Records. The album continued Davis' exploration of jazz fusion, consisting of repetitive drum and bass grooves that incorporated funk music, the tape editing techniques of producer Teo Macero, and the influence of experimental composer . Recording sessions featured musicians such as bassist Michael Henderson, guitarist John McLaughlin, and keyboardist Herbie Hancock, though no musicians were credited on the original release.

On the Corner was in part an attempt by Davis to reach a younger African American audience who had largely left jazz for funk and rock music. Instead, it became one of his worst-selling recordings and was scorned by establishment jazz critics at the time of its release. It was also his last studio album of the 1970s conceived as a complete work; for the remainder of the decade he recorded haphazardly and focused instead on live performance before temporarily retiring from music in 1975.

The critical standing of On the Corner has improved dramatically with the passage of time. The album has been cited as prefiguring subsequent funk, jazz, post-punk, electronica, and hip hop music. In recent years, publications such as Fact and Pitchfork Media have named it among the best albums of the 1970s. In 2007, On the Corner was reissued as part of the 6-disc box set The Complete On the Corner Sessions, joining previous multi-disc Davis reissues.

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