Miles Davis at Fillmore

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. Marguerite Eskridge, Davis' girlfriend at the time, appeared in the album cover's photo collage. == Critical reception ==

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". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), J. D. Considine said At Fillmore had "a frenzied, clangorous approach", less lyrical than the contemporaneous Black Beauty (which was released a few years later). == Track listing ==

1970 double LP Columbia – G 30038, C 30241, C 30242: 1997 CD Reissue Columbia – C2K 65139: == 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 ==See also==