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. It was recorded in 1972 at the Philharmonic Hall in

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' 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."

Critical reception

In a contemporary review of the album, Bob Palmer of ''

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'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."

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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 ''

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'', Christgau wrote of the album upon its reissue in 1997: According to

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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)
Review: ''In Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall''

. Retrieved on 2011-02-26. Erik Davis, writing in ''

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" and said that its music is "of such propulsive psychedelic density that it makes the heaviest

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'' writer Tom Terrell called Davis "a spiritual

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with his own cosmic band of gypsies", and commented that the album's "visionary performance ... predicts

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'' 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." In ''

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'' (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."

Track listing

Original LP

All tracks were composed by

Record one - “Foot Fooler”

Record two - “Slickaphonics”

CD reissue

Personnel

– electric

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with wah-wah *

– soprano and tenor

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*Cedric Lawson –

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Khalil Balakrishna Khalil Balakrishna is a sitar and tanpura player who worked with Miles Davis between 1969 and 1974. Guitarist John McLaughlin, already interested in Indian music, suggested him and tabla player Bihari Sharma to Davis during the ''Bitches Brew'' s ...

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