Miles Davis at Fillmore

Miles Davis at Fillmore
Miles Davis at Fillmore
Live album by Miles Davis
Released	October 28, 1970
Recorded	June 17–20, 1970
Venue	Fillmore East in New York City
Genre	Jazz-rock
Length	101:26
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Miles Davis chronology
Miles Davis live chronology

Miles Davis at Fillmore is a 1970 live album by the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and band, recorded at the Fillmore East, New York City on four consecutive days, June 17 through June 20, 1970, originally released as a double vinyl LP. The performances featured the double keyboard set-up Davis toured with for a few months, with Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea playing electronic organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano, respectively. The group opened for Laura Nyro at these performances.^[2]

Compositions include, besides the standard "I Fall in Love Too Easily", tracks from his fusion studio albums Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way. The live performances were heavily edited by producer Teo Macero, and the results were named for the day of the week the band performed; only on the 1997 Columbia CD reissue were the compositions and composers identified and indexed. Promotional LP copies divided the sides into short individually titled pieces, but still did not identify the original compositions and composers.^[3]

On March 25, 2014, the full recordings of the performances were issued as Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3.

Release history

Miles Davis at Fillmore was released on vinyl as a double album, with liner notes written by Morgan Ames of High Fidelity, and Mort Goode. It was released on CD in Japan in 1987, but not made available on CD in the States until 1997, when Columbia released it as one of five live albums from the same period (the others being Live-Evil, In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall, Dark Magus, and Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West). This reissue featured additional liner notes by drummer Jack DeJohnette. Columbia aimed the release for the jazz market but also for college and alternative radio stations.^[4]

Marguerite Eskridge, Davis' girlfriend at the time, appeared in the album cover's photo collage.^[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Retrospective reviews
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[6]
Christgau's Record Guide	B^[7]
DownBeat	^[8]
Entertainment Weekly	B−^[9]
Los Angeles Times	^[10]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[12]

In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau found Miles Davis at Fillmore to be less focused than Bitches Brew because the music meandered "unforgivably", particularly Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett's keyboard playing on "Wednesday". He said the tracks should have been edited down together to highlight the "treasures" they each offer, including "the cool atmospherics that lead off Wednesday, the hard bop in extremis toward the end of Thursday, the way Miles blows sharply lyrical over Jack DeJohnette's rock march and Airto Moreira's jungle sci-fi for the last few minutes of Friday, all the activity surrounding Steve Grossman's solo on Saturday".^[7] In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), J. D. Considine said At Fillmore abandoned the more lyrical music of Black Beauty in favor of "a frenzied, clangorous approach".^[13]

Track listing

1970 double LP

Columbia – G 30038, C 30241, C 30242:^[14]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording session	Length
1.	"Wednesday Miles"	Miles Davis	June 17, 1970	24:14

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording session	Length
1.	"Thursday Miles"	Miles Davis	June 18, 1970	26:55

Side three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording session	Length
1.	"Friday Miles"	Miles Davis	June 19, 1970	27:57

Side four
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording session	Length
1.	"Saturday Miles"	Miles Davis	June 20, 1970	22:20
Total length:				101:26

1997 CD Reissue

Columbia – C2K 65139:^[15]

Disc one
Wednesday Miles (June 17, 1970)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Directions"	Joe Zawinul	2:29
2.	"Bitches Brew"	Miles Davis	0:53
3.	"The Mask"	Miles Davis	1:35
4.	"It's About That Time"	Miles Davis	8:12
5.	"Bitches Brew/The Theme"	Miles Davis	10:55

Thursday Miles (June 18, 1970)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Directions"	Joe Zawinul	5:35
7.	"The Mask"	Miles Davis	9:50
8.	"It's About That Time"	Miles Davis	11:22
Total length:			50:51

Disc two
Friday Miles (June 19, 1970)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"It's About That Time"	Miles Davis	9:01
2.	"I Fall in Love Too Easily"	Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn	2:00
3.	"Sanctuary"	Wayne Shorter	3:44
4.	"Bitches Brew/The Theme"	Miles Davis	13:09

Saturday Miles (June 20, 1970)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"It's About That Time"	Miles Davis	3:43
6.	"I Fall in Love Too Easily"	Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn	0:54
7.	"Sanctuary"	Wayne Shorter	2:49
8.	"Bitches Brew"	Miles Davis	6:57
9.	"Willie Nelson/The Theme"	Miles Davis	7:57
Total length:			50:14

Personnel

Musicians

Miles Davis – trumpet with Harmon mute
Steve Grossman – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Chick Corea – Fender Rhodes electric piano with delay/fuzz pedals and ring modulator
Keith Jarrett – Fender Contempo Organ with delay/fuzz pedals + tambourine
Dave Holland – electric bass guitar with wah-wah pedal
Jack DeJohnette – drums
Airto Moreira – cuica, transverse flute, whistle, kazoo, shakers, bells, woodblock, tambourine

Production

Teo Macero – producer
Stan Tonkel – recording engineer
Russ Payne – mixing engineer
Nick Fasciano – original cover design
Jim Marshall – cover photography
Don Hunstein – original liner photography

References

^ Ruhlmann, William. "Miles Davis". Allmusic. Retrieved June 5, 2013. ...Davis turned more overtly to a jazz-rock style...He followed it with such similar efforts as Miles Davis at Fillmore East
^ Losin, Peter. "Miles Ahead". Retrieved May 21, 2016.
^ "Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
^ Macnie, Jim (June 7, 1997). "Columbia/Legacy to Present Miles Davis 'Live & Electric!'". Billboard. pp. 9, 88. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
^ Matthew Whitaker Ph, D. (March 9, 2011). GoogleBooks Preview. ISBN 9780313376436. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
^ Allmusic review
^ ^a ^b Christgau 1981, p. 101.
^ "Review: Miles Davis At Fillmore". Down Beat: 65. July 1997.
^ Sinclair, Tom (August 1, 1997). Review: Miles Davis live albums . Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on February 26, 2011.
^ Heckman, Don (July 27, 1997). "Unleashing More of the Davis Legacy : MILES DAVIS". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Considine et al. 2004, p. 215.
^ Considine et al. 2004, p. 219.
^ "Miles Davis at Fillmore (LP)". Discogs. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
^ "Miles Davis at Fillmore (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

Bibliography

Christgau, Robert (October 13, 1981). Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251.
Considine, J. D.; et al. (November 2, 2004). Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

External links

Miles Davis at Fillmore at Discogs (list of releases)
"Miles Davis's '70s: The Excitement! The Terror!" by Robert Christgau

[1] Ruhlmann, William. "Miles Davis". Allmusic. Retrieved June 5, 2013. ...Davis turned more overtly to a jazz-rock style...He followed it with such similar efforts as Miles Davis at Fillmore East

[2] Losin, Peter. "Miles Ahead". Retrieved May 21, 2016.

[3] "Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved May 21, 2016.

[4] Macnie, Jim (June 7, 1997). "Columbia/Legacy to Present Miles Davis 'Live & Electric!'". Billboard. pp. 9, 88. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2012.

[5] Matthew Whitaker Ph, D. (March 9, 2011). GoogleBooks Preview. ISBN 9780313376436. Retrieved June 5, 2013.

[6] Allmusic review

[FOOTNOTEChristgau1981101-7] Christgau 1981, p. 101.

[8] "Review: Miles Davis At Fillmore". Down Beat: 65. July 1997.

[Sinclair-9] Sinclair, Tom (August 1, 1997). Review: Miles Davis live albums . Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on February 26, 2011.

[Heckman-10] Heckman, Don (July 27, 1997). "Unleashing More of the Davis Legacy : MILES DAVIS". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 5, 2013.

[Penguin-11] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[FOOTNOTEConsidine_et_al.2004215-12] Considine et al. 2004, p. 215.

[FOOTNOTEConsidine_et_al.2004219-13] Considine et al. 2004, p. 219.

[14] "Miles Davis at Fillmore (LP)". Discogs. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

[15] "Miles Davis at Fillmore (CD)". Discogs. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

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As leader	Tones for Joan's Bones (1968) Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968) Circling In (1975) Is (1969) Sundance (1972) The Song of Singing (1970) A.R.C. (1971) (with Dave Holland & Barry Altschul) The Leprechaun (1976) My Spanish Heart (1976) The Mad Hatter (1978) Secret Agent (1978) Friends (1978) Tap Step (1980) Three Quartets (1981) Trio Music (1982) Touchstone (1982) Again and Again (1983) Summer Night: Live (1987) (with Akoustic Band) Chick Corea Akoustic Band (1989) (with Akoustic Band) Alive (1991) (with Akoustic Band) Seabreeze (1993) (with Gayle Moran & Lionel Hampton) Time Warp (1995) Remembering Bud Powell (1996) Rendezvous in New York (2003) The Ultimate Adventure (2006) Super Trio - Live at the One World Theatre, April 3rd, 2005 (2006) (with Steve Gadd & Christian McBride) Five Peace Band Live (2009) (with John McLaughlin) Further Explorations (2012) The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (2012) The Vigil (2013) Trilogy (2013) (with Chick Corea Trio) The Musician: Live at The Blue Note Jazz Café (2016) Chinese Butterfly (2017) (with Steve Gadd) Trilogy 2 (2019)(with Chick Corea Trio) Antidote (2019)
Solo piano albums	Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971) Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1972) Delphi I (1979) Delphi II & III (1980) Children's Songs (1984) Expressions (1994) Solo Piano: Originals (2000) Solo Piano: Standards (2000) Solo Piano – Portraits (2014) Plays (2020)
Duos	An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978) CoreaHancock (1979) Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert (1980) Voyage (1984) [with Steve Kujala] Play (1992) (with Bobby McFerrin) The Enchantment (2007) (with Béla Fleck) Duet (2008) (with Hiromi Uehara) Orvieto (2010) (with Stefano Bollani) Two (2015) [with Béla Fleck]
with Gary Burton	Crystal Silence (1972) Duet (1979) In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1980) Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982) Native Sense - The New Duets (1997) The New Crystal Silence (2008) Hot House (2012)
Circle	Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (1970) Circle 2: Gathering (1971) Paris Concert (1972) Circling In (1975) Circulus (1978)
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with Miles Davis	Water Babies (1976) Filles de Kilimanjaro (1969) In a Silent Way (1969) Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (2013) Bitches Brew (1970) Bitches Brew Live (2011) Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1977) Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (1970) Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (2014) Jack Johnson (a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson) (1971) Circle in the Round (1979) Live-Evil (1971) On the Corner (1972) Big Fun (1974)
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with Joe Farrell	Joe Farrell Quartet (1970) Outback (1971) Skate Board Park (1979)
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