{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = In Concert | type = live | artist = Miles Davis | cover = In Concert - Miles Davis.jpg | alt = | released = May 1973 | recorded = September 29, 1972 | venue = Philharmonic Hall<br>New York City | genre = {{hlist|Jazz-funk<ref name="Christgau"/>|jazz-rock<ref name="Huey"/>|jazz fusion}} | length = 84:06 | label = Columbia | producer = Teo Macero | prev_title = Black Beauty | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Jazz at the Plaza Vol. I | next_year = 1973 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Miles Davis live | type = live | prev_title = The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 | prev_year = 1970 | title = In Concert | year = 1972 | next_title = The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux | next_year = 1973 }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Huey"/> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = A–{{sfn|Christgau|1981|p=102}} |rev3 = ''DownBeat'' |rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="DB">{{cite journal|title=Review: In Concert|journal=Down Beat|location=Chicago|page=65|date=July 1997}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{sfn|Larkin|2006|p=210}} |rev5 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' |rev5score = A<ref name="Sinclair">{{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|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}}</ref> |rev6 = ''Los Angeles Times'' |rev6Score = {{Rating|2|4}}<ref name="Heckman">{{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|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}}</ref> |rev7 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev7Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{sfn|Considine et al.|2004|p=215}} |rev9 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev9score = {{Rating|3|4}} <ref name="Penguin">{{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 |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=350}}</ref> }} '''''In Concert'''''{{#tag:ref|The title of the album's original release (Columbia KG 32092) is listed as "In Concert" by ''Billboard'',<ref name="bbreview"/> ''Coda'',<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Coda|page=105|volume=11|issue=7–12|year=1974|title=Miles Davis – In Concert – Columbia KG 32092}}</ref> and the ''Schwann Record & Tape Guide''.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Schwann Record & Tape Guide|page=232|year=1973|volume=26|issue=2|title=none}}</ref>|group="nb"}} is a live double album by the 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."<ref name="bbreview">{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OwkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA60|access-date=June 15, 2013|title=Top Album Picks|magazine=Billboard|page=60|date=May 5, 1973}}</ref>
== 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."<ref name="Palmer">{{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|location=New York|access-date=June 9, 2013}}</ref> 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''."{{sfn|Christgau|1981|p=102}} In an article for ''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 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, 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."<ref name="Christgau">{{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|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}}</ref>}}
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".<ref name="Huey">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. Retrieved on 2011-02-26.</ref> 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."<ref name="Davis">{{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|location=New York|page=117|access-date=May 20, 2013}}</ref> ''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')".<ref name="Terrell">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''. Retrieved on 2011-02-26.</ref>
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."<ref name="Heckman"/> 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."{{sfn|Considine et al.|2004|p=219}}
==Track listing==
=== Original LP === All tracks were composed by Miles Davis.
====Record one - “Foot Fooler”====
{{track listing |headline = Side one |title1 = Miles Davis in Concert |length1 = 20:45 }}
{{track listing |headline = Side two |title1 = Miles Davis in Concert |length1 = 25:23 }}
====Record two - “Slickaphonics”==== {{track listing |headline = Side three |title1 = Miles Davis in Concert |length1 = 18:12 }}
{{track listing |headline = Side four |title1 = Miles Davis in Concert |length1 = 20:21 }}
===CD reissue===
{{track listing |headline = Disc one (First set - “Foot Fooler” in Concert, Parts 1 and 2) |title1 = Rated X |length1 = 12:16 |title2 = Honky Tonk |length2 = 9:18 |title3 = Theme from Jack Johnson |length3 = 10:12 |title4 = Black Satin/The Theme |length4 = 14:14 }}
{{track listing |headline = Disc two (Second set - “Slickaphonics” in Concert, Parts 1 and 2) |title1 = Ife |length1 = 27:53 |title2 = Right Off/The Theme |length2 = 10:30 }}
== Personnel == * Miles Davis – electric trumpet with wah-wah *Carlos Garnett – soprano and tenor saxophone *Cedric Lawson – electric piano, synthesizer *Reggie Lucas – electric guitar *Khalil Balakrishna – electric sitar *Michael Henderson – electric bass *Al Foster – drums *Badal Roy – tablas *James Mtume – percussion
== References == {{Reflist}}
;Footnote {{Reflist|group="nb"}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=0899190251|url=https://archive.org/details/christgausrecord00robe_1}} * {{cite book|ref={{SfnRef|Considine et al.|2004|p=215}}|author=Considine, J. D.|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Hoard|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=November 2, 2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|display-authors=etal|author-link=J. D. Considine|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide}} * {{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2006|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|isbn=0195313739|volume=9|edition=4th|publisher=Muze}}
== External links == * {{Discogs master|type=album|64688|name=In Concert}} * [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/miles-davis-in-concert.htm "Miles Davis - In Concert - On Second Thought"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017062807/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/miles-davis-in-concert.htm |date=October 17, 2012 }} by Stylus Magazine
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