Title: Often dull
Product review: This is a funky electric live album with some distorted guitar solos and beautiful flute and sax playing by Sonny Fortune. Miles does not solo at anywhere near the peak of his powers--he sounds depressed or ill to me. The first two sides are generally cohesive and strong, if rather simplistic. Sides 3 and 4, everything after "Maiysha", are not nearly as interesting and are often downright dull. Once you get past the fact that the music is sometimes exciting on the surface due to its funkiness and screeching guitar solos, there is just not that much substance here. Miles' playing is certainly several levels below what he was playing on "Bitches Brew" and "Jack Johnson". Novices coming to Miles should also be aware that this is from the height of his weirdest electric era, which some like and some do not--but which was usually devoid of his lyricism and conventional beauty of large sections of his recorded output.
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