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Miles at the Fillmore Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3

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Released
  
March 25, 2014

Artist
  
Miles Davis

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Columbia/Legacy

Length
  
250:18

Release date
  
25 March 2014

Producer
  
Teo Macero

Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb2

Recorded
  
April 11 and June 17–20, 1970 Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA and Fillmore East in NYC

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Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 is a 4 CD live album compiling the four nights of Miles Davis' performances at the Fillmore East in New York City from June 17-20, 1970 and three additional tracks recorded at the Fillmore West two months earlier. The concert series was originally released in part as a double album Miles Davis at Fillmore (Columbia, 1970) but was given the first complete unedited release on this box set.

Contents

Reception

Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 received mainly positive reviews on release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 92, based on 11 reviews which is categorised as universal acclaim. Thom Jurek's review on Allmusic stated "The charts are loose but focused, and the group's improvisational dynamic is breathtaking, entirely different each night. Davis is exceptionally strong. His playing is inventive, full of questions and muscular statements". PopMatters', Matthew Fiander gave the album 10 out of 10 saying "It was a time of turmoil, but for Davis’s music, turmoil was a state of creation, and these four nights give us four distinct and brilliantly built storms" The Observer's Dave Gelly said "It certainly gets close to chaos at times, but these live shows often did. From that point of view at least, it's truly authentic".

Track listing

All compositions by Miles Davis except as indicated

Disc One:

  1. Introduction - 0:04
  2. "Directions" (Joe Zawinul) - 10:23
  3. "The Mask" - 11:04
  4. "It's About That Time" - 10:44
  5. "Bitches Brew" - 13:41
  6. "The Theme" - 0:40
  7. "Paraphernalia" (Wayne Shorter) - 11:02
  8. "Footprints" (Shorter) - 11:13
  • Recorded at the Fillmore East in NYC on June 17, 1970 (tracks 1-6) and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA on April 11, 1970 (tracks 7 & 8)

    • Disc Two:

    1. "Directions" (Zawinul) - 10:10
    2. "The Mask" - 11:29
    3. "It's About That Time" - 12:03
    4. "Bitches Brew" - 11:57
    5. "The Theme" - 1:29
    6. "Spanish Key (Encore)" - 10:20
    7. "The Theme" - 0:27
  • Recorded at the Fillmore East in NYC on June 18, 1970

    • Disc Three:

    1. "Directions" (Zawinul) - 12:50
    2. "The Mask" - 10:00
    3. "It's About That Time" - 11:27
    4. "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 1:47
    5. "Sanctuary" (Shorter) - 3:24
    6. "Bitches Brew" - 12:38
    7. "The Theme" - 0:44
    8. "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" - 13:20
  • Recorded at the Fillmore East in NYC on June 19, 1970 (tracks 1-7) and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA on April 11, 1970 (track 8)

    • Disc Four:

    1. "Directions" (Zawinul) - 10:48
    2. "The Mask" - 11:14
    3. "It's About That Time" - 11:03
    4. "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Styne, Cahn) - 1:20
    5. "Sanctuary" (Shorter) - 3:20
    6. "Bitches Brew" - 9:39
    7. "Willie Nelson" - 9:21
    8. "The Theme" - 0:37
  • Recorded at the Fillmore East in NYC on June 20, 1970

    • Personnel

  • Miles Davis – trumpet
  • Steve Grossman – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Chick Corea – Fender Rhodes electric piano
  • Keith Jarrett - organ, tambourine (Fillmore East tracks only)
  • Dave Holland – electric bass
  • Jack DeJohnette – drums
  • Airto Moreira - percussion, flute, vocals

    • Songs

    1Introduction (Live at Fill East June 17 - 1970)0:05
    2Directions (Live at Fill East June 17 - 1970)10:24
    3The Mask (Live at Fill East June 17 - 1970)11:05

    References

    Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 Wikipedia
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