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

Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
Live album by Miles Davis
Released March 25, 2014
Recorded April 11 and June 17–20, 1970
Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA and Fillmore East in NYC
Genre Jazz-fusion, funk
Length 250:18
Label Sony Music Entertainment, Columbia Records, Legacy Recordings 88765 43381 2
Producer Teo Macero
Miles Davis chronology
Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2
(2013)		 Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
(2014)		 Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4
(2015)

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.[1] 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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic92/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Popmatters[4]
The Observer[5]

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.[2] 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".[3] 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"[4] 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".[5]

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

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

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

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

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Miles Davis website album entry, accessed October 6, 2015
  2. 1 2 "Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Fiander, Matthew (March 28, 2014). "Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3". Popmatters. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Gelly, Dave (May 4, 2014). "Miles at the Fillmore review – Miles Davis at his most chaotic". The Observer. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
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