# In Concert (Miles Davis album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = In Concert
| type = live
| artist = [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis)
| cover = In Concert - Miles Davis.jpg
| alt =
| released = May 1973
| recorded = September 29, 1972
| venue = [Philharmonic Hall](/source/Avery_Fisher_Hall)
[New York City](/source/New_York_City)
| genre = {{hlist|[Jazz-funk](/source/Jazz-funk)[{{cite journal|title=Review: In Concert|journal=[Down Beat](/source/Down_Beat)|location=Chicago|page=65|date=July 1997}}]
|rev4 = ''[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music](/source/The_Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music)''
|rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{sfn|Larkin|2006|p=210}}
|rev5 = ''[Entertainment Weekly](/source/Entertainment_Weekly)''
|rev5score = A[{{cite magazine|last=Sinclair|first=Tom|date=August 1, 1997|issue=390|url=https://ew.com/article/1997/08/01/miles-davis-live-albums/|access-date=June 9, 2013|title=Miles Davis|magazine=[Entertainment Weekly](/source/Entertainment_Weekly)|location=New York|page=75|archive-date=November 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103221359/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,288884,00.html|url-status=live}}]
|rev6 = ''[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)''
|rev6Score = {{Rating|2|4}}[{{cite news|last=Heckman|first=Don|date=July 27, 1997|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-27-ca-16623-story.html|title=Unleashing More of the Davis Legacy : MILES DAVIS|newspaper=[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)|access-date=June 5, 2013|archive-date=July 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722023747/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-27-ca-16623-story.html|url-status=live}}]
|rev7 = ''[The Rolling Stone Album Guide](/source/The_Rolling_Stone_Album_Guide)''
|rev7Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{sfn|Considine et al.|2004|p=215}}
|rev9 = ''[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz_Recordings)''
|rev9score = {{Rating|3|4}} [{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz) |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[Penguin](/source/Penguin_Books) |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=350}}]
}}
'''''In Concert'''''{{#tag:ref|The title of the album's original release (Columbia KG 32092) is listed as "In Concert" by ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'',[{{cite journal|journal=[Coda](/source/Coda_(magazine))|page=105|volume=11|issue=7–12|year=1974|title=Miles Davis – In Concert – Columbia KG 32092}}] and the ''[Schwann Record & Tape Guide](/source/Schwann_catalog)''.[{{cite journal|journal=[Schwann Record & Tape Guide](/source/Schwann_Catalog)|page=232|year=1973|volume=26|issue=2|title=none}}]|group="nb"}} is a live [double album](/source/double_album) by the American [jazz](/source/jazz) musician [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis). It was recorded in 1972 at the [Philharmonic Hall](/source/Avery_Fisher_Hall) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City). [Columbia Records](/source/Columbia_Records)' original release did not credit any personnel, recording date, or track listing, apart from the [inner liner](/source/Record_sleeve) listing the two titles "Foot Fooler" and "Slickaphonics."[{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA60|access-date=June 15, 2013|title=Top Album Picks|magazine=[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))|page=60|date=May 5, 1973}}]
== Critical reception ==
In a contemporary review of the album, [Bob Palmer](/source/Robert_Palmer_(American_writer)) of ''[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone)'' magazine believed [Carlos Garnett](/source/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."[{{cite magazine|last=Palmer|first=Bob|author-link=Robert Palmer (American writer)|date=June 21, 1973|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/in-concert-live-at-philharmonic-hall-19730621|title=In Concert: Live At Philharmonic Hall|magazine=[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone)|location=New York|access-date=June 9, 2013}}] [Robert Christgau](/source/Robert_Christgau) wrote in ''[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_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](/source/On_the_Corner)''."{{sfn|Christgau|1981|p=102}} In an article for ''[The Village Voice](/source/The_Village_Voice)'', Christgau wrote of the album upon its reissue in 1997:
{{blockquote|"By ''In Concert'' ... [[Michael Henderson|[Michael] Henderson]] is the sole survivor from the more talented prior band—although, crucially, [Al Foster](/source/Al_Foster) pushes like [[Jack DeJohnette|[Jack] DeJohnette]] with less excess motion. The result is the purest jazz-funk record ever—not as quick or tricky as [James Brown](/source/James_Brown), but more richly layered, riffs and drones and [wah-wah](/source/Wah-wah_(music))s and tunelets and weird noises and shifting [key centers](/source/tonality) snaking along on a sexually solicitous, subtly indomitable pulse."[{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=October 14, 1997|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/davis-97.php|title=Miles Davis's '70s: The Excitement! The Terror!|newspaper=[The Village Voice](/source/The_Village_Voice)|location=New York|access-date=April 16, 2013|archive-date=January 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127031737/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/davis-97.php|url-status=live}}]}}
According to [AllMusic](/source/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".[Huey, Steve (November 1, 2002). [http://www.allmusic.com/album/in-concert-live-at-philharmonic-hall-r106174/review Review: ''In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616075134/http://www.allmusic.com/album/in-concert-live-at-philharmonic-hall-r106174/review |date=June 16, 2011 }}. [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic). Retrieved on 2011-02-26.] [Erik Davis](/source/Erik_Davis), writing in ''[Spin](/source/Spin_(magazine))'' magazine, praised its "rhythmic [wall of sound](/source/wall_of_sound)" and said that its music is "of such propulsive psychedelic density that it makes the heaviest [P-Funk](/source/P-Funk) sound like [the Archies](/source/the_Archies)."[{{cite journal|last=Davis|first=Erik|author-link=Erik Davis|date=August 1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uWz-QtMkI4C&pg=PA117|title=Freakin' the Funk – Revisiting Miles Davis's '70s Visions|journal=[Spin](/source/Spin_(magazine))|location=New York|page=117|access-date=May 20, 2013}}] ''[JazzTimes](/source/JazzTimes)'' writer [Tom Terrell](/source/Tom_Terrell_(journalist)) called Davis "a spiritual [Hendrix](/source/Jimi_Hendrix) with his own cosmic [band of gypsies](/source/Band_of_Gypsys)", and commented that the album's "visionary performance ... predicts [hip hop](/source/hip_hop_music) ('Rated X'{{'}}s bassline = '[White Lines](/source/White_Lines_(Don't_Don't_Do_It))'), [Ornette](/source/Ornette_Coleman)'s Prime Time ('Black Satin') and [Talking Heads](/source/Talking_Heads) ('Ife')".[Terrell, Tom (October 1997). [http://jazztimes.com/articles/9767-black-beauty-miles-davis-at-fillmore-west-miles-davis Review: ''In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911165630/http://jazztimes.com/articles/9767-black-beauty-miles-davis-at-fillmore-west-miles-davis |date=September 11, 2011 }}. ''[JazzTimes](/source/JazzTimes)''. Retrieved on 2011-02-26.]
In a mixed review, Don Heckman of the ''[Los Angeles Times](/source/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."