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

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Miles at the Fillmore - Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3
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Live album by Miles Davis
Released March 25, 2014
Recorded April 11 and June 17–20, 1970
Venue Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA and Fillmore East in New York City
Genre Jazz-fusion, funk
Length250:18
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) Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 22013
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 Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 42015

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.

Fillmore East former music venue, formerly theatre and cinema, in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City, United States

Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City. It was open from March 8, 1968, to June 27, 1971, and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time. The Fillmore East was a companion to Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, and its successor, the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, Graham's home base.

Fillmore West historic rock and roll music venue in San Francisco, California, USA

The Fillmore West was a historic rock and roll music venue in San Francisco, California, which became famous under the direction of concert promoter Bill Graham from 1968 to 1971. Named after The Fillmore at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it stood at the southwest corner of Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center district. There is now a Honda automobile dealership at that location. In June 2018, the top two floors of the building reopened as SVN West, a new concert and corporate event venue managed by Non Plus Ultra.

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Metacritic 92/100 [2]
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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]

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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

Miles Davis American jazz musician

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Steve Grossman (saxophonist) American saxophonist

Steve Grossman is an American jazz fusion and hard bop saxophonist.

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