Miles Davis - At Fillmore, Live At The Fillmore East (2CD) (1970) {1997 Columbia Legacy}
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At Fillmore: Live At The Fillmore East is a 1970 live album by Miles Davis. This was remastered in 1997 by Columbia Legacy.
SIDE 1 - WEDNESDAY MILES
1. Directions
2. Bitches Brew
3. The Mask
4. It's About That Time
5. Bitches Brew/The Theme
SIDE 2 - THURSDAY MILES
6. Directions
7. The Mask
8. It's About That Time
DISC 2
SIDE 3 - FRIDAY MILES
1. It's About That Time
2. I Fall In Love Too Easily
3. Sanctuary
4. Bitches Brew/The Theme
SIDE 4 - SATURDAY MILES
5. It's About That Time
6. I Fall In Love Too Easily
7. Sanctuary
8. Bitches Brew
9. Willie Nelson/The Theme
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Miles Davis-trumpet
Steve Grossman-soprano saxophone
Chick Corea-Fender Rhodes piano
Keith Jarrett-piano
Dave Holland-acoustic & electric basses
Jack DeJohnette-drums
Airto Moreira-percussion
Recorded live at The Fillmore East, New York, New York on June 17-20, 1970
Original recordings produced by Teo Macero
Digitally mastered by Tom Ruff, Sony Music Studios, NYC
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Miles Davis was in an experimental mode, and not just in the way he played or how he played it. He was using the recording tape as its own musician, as producer Teo Macero would be cutting and pasting elements of tracks, splicing and dicing that had been unheard of, even in jazz circles. It was taking one section of a song and adding it within another, composing music via magnetic tape. It was a process Macero did with Miles' In A Silent Way, and was definitely a major part of what [b]Bitches Brew[/i] is about. Macero would be using the razor again for At Fillmore: Live At Fillmore East, and judging from some of the other reviews on the internet, fans are split on whether or not this was technical genius or too much hubbub over nothing.
The practice of heavy splicing was/is fairly common practice, and in the last 20 years the art of cut & paste in a digital medium is now part of the norm.
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With the reviews for Bitches Brew in full swing and with Steve Grossman firmly established in the saxophone chair recently vacated by Wayne Shorter, Miles threw the band a curve ball -- he added Keith Jarrett on organ to a band that already included bassist Dave Holland, electric pianist Chick Corea, percussionist Airto Moreira, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Miles was playing a four-night stand at the Fillmore East. This double-LP/CD package puts together selections from each night, without regard for repetition. That's fine that there are numerous performances of certain tunes: the problem is, that though the music is compelling, it's schizophrenic because there are no full performances; it was edited severely. Rather than the long jams that fans and foes had been accustomed to hearing from Davis, here are snippets taken from the heart of performances such as two and a half minutes from "Directions" or eight from the center of "It's About That Time" (that sounds a hell of a lot like Weather Report's "125th Street Congress" from Sweetnighter). To compound this, when the music from Friday night represents some of the music from Thursday night, but different sections are edited from the tunes, it becomes more because the grooves don't match. Just as a composition starts to gel, it segues into another one. Organically that's not the way Miles worked; pieces would evolve, slowly with a kind of spooky continuity. The Black Beauty set is preferable to this one, though there isn't any Jarrett -- or the March 7, 1970, issue on CD only called It's About That Time. This collection only reveals that the band were more than capable of blowing everybody's mind; it doesn't actually do it.
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