In Concert
Live album by
Miles Davis
ReleasedMay 1973
RecordedSeptember 29, 1972
VenuePhilharmonic Hall
New York City
Genre
Length84:06
LabelColumbia
ProducerTeo Macero
Miles Davis chronology
Black Beauty
(1973)		 In Concert
(1973)		 Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I
(1973)
Miles Davis live chronology
The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
(1970)		 In Concert
(1972)		 The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[3]
Down Beat[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Entertainment WeeklyA[6]
Los Angeles Times[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]
Tom Hull – on the WebA−[9]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [10]

In Concert[nb 1] is a live double album by American jazz musician Miles Davis. It was recorded in 1972 at the Philharmonic Hall in New York City. Columbia Records' original release did not credit any personnel, recording date, or track listing, apart from the inner liner listing the two titles "Foot Fooler" and "Slickaphonics."[11]

Critical reception

In a contemporary review of the album, Bob Palmer of Rolling Stone magazine believed Carlos Garnett's saxophone playing sounded marginalized, but wrote that the music is "bracing, popping, at least one step ahead of the many Davis imitators. There are few real surprises, but there's a continuing skein of rhythms, themes and developments that makes fine extended listening."[14] Robert Christgau wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) that although "it takes a while to get into gear" and is "pretty narrow in function", the album's "urban voodoo" has "more going for it rhythmically than On the Corner."[3] In an article for The Village Voice, Christgau wrote of the album upon its reissue in 1997:

"By In Concert ... [Michael] Henderson is the sole survivor from the more talented prior band—although, crucially, Al Foster pushes like [Jack] DeJohnette with less excess motion. The result is the purest jazz-funk record ever—not as quick or tricky as James Brown, but more richly layered, riffs and drones and wah-wahs and tunelets and weird noises and shifting key centers snaking along on a sexually solicitous, subtly indomitable pulse."[1]

According to AllMusic editor Steve Huey, "melody isn't the point of this music; it's about power, rhythm, and the sum energy of the collective, and of Davis' electric jazz-rock albums, In Concert does one of the most mind-bending jobs of living up to those ideals".[2] Erik Davis, writing in Spin magazine, praised its "rhythmic wall of sound" and said that its music is "of such propulsive psychedelic density that it makes the heaviest P-Funk sound like the Archies."[15] JazzTimes writer Tom Terrell called Davis "a spiritual Hendrix with his own cosmic band of gypsies", and commented that the album's "visionary performance ... predicts hip hop ('Rated X''s bassline = 'White Lines'), Ornette's Prime Time ('Black Satin') and Talking Heads ('Ife')".[16]

In a mixed review, Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times criticized Davis' use of the wah-wah effects controller and said that he was "not in particularly exceptional form" because he had "moved more deeply into pounding funk rhythms and fairly static sound textures."[7] In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), J. D. Considine felt that, although it was "occasionally fascinating, the busily churning rhythms often seem oddly static, as if the band were laboriously treading water."[17]

Track listing

Original LP

All tracks were composed by Miles Davis.

Record one - “Foot Fooler”

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Miles Davis in Concert"20:45
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Miles Davis in Concert"25:23

Record two - “Slickaphonics”

Side three
No.TitleLength
1."Miles Davis in Concert"18:12
Side four
No.TitleLength
1."Miles Davis in Concert"20:21

CD reissue

Disc one (First set - “Foot Fooler” in Concert, Parts 1 and 2)
No.TitleLength
1."Rated X"12:16
2."Honky Tonk"9:18
3."Theme from Jack Johnson"10:12
4."Black Satin/The Theme"14:14
Disc two (Second set - “Slickaphonics” in Concert, Parts 1 and 2)
No.TitleLength
1."Ife"27:53
2."Right Off/The Theme"10:30

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (October 14, 1997). "Miles Davis's '70s: The Excitement! The Terror!". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Huey, Steve (November 1, 2002). Review: In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall. AllMusic. Retrieved on 2011-02-26.
  3. 1 2 Christgau 1981, p. 102.
  4. ↑ "Review: In Concert". Down Beat. Chicago: 65. July 1997.
  5. ↑ Larkin 2006, p. 210.
  6. ↑ Sinclair, Tom (August 1, 1997). "Miles Davis". Entertainment Weekly. New York (390): 75. Archived from the original on November 3, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
  7. 1 2 Heckman, Don (July 27, 1997). "Unleashing More of the Davis Legacy : MILES DAVIS". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
  8. ↑ Considine et al. 2004, p. 215.
  9. ↑ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Grade List: Miles Davis". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  10. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  11. 1 2 "Top Album Picks". Billboard: 60. May 5, 1973. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Miles Davis – In Concert – Columbia KG 32092". Coda. 11 (7–12): 105. 1974.
  13. ↑ Schwann Record & Tape Guide. 26 (2): 232. 1973.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  14. ↑ Palmer, Bob (June 21, 1973). "In Concert: Live At Philharmonic Hall". Rolling Stone. New York. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
  15. ↑ Davis, Erik (August 1997). "Freakin' the Funk – Revisiting Miles Davis's '70s Visions". Spin. New York: 117. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  16. ↑ Terrell, Tom (October 1997). Review: In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall. JazzTimes. Retrieved on 2011-02-26.
  17. ↑ Considine et al. 2004, p. 219.
Footnote
  1. ↑ The title of the album's original release (Columbia KG 32092) is listed as "In Concert" by Billboard,[11] Coda,[12] and the Schwann Record & Tape Guide.[13]

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