Filles de Kilimanjaro

The album can be seen as a transitional work between Davis's mainly acoustic recordings with the Second Quintet and the jazz fusion of his later electric period. On the recording, the quintet expresses an meter with a repeating riff and chromatically ascending dominant harmonies in the recording first section. Evans co-composed "", which he later recorded as "Eleven" with himself and Davis listed as co-composers.

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In a contemporary review, Rolling Stone claimed that "no amount of track-by-track description here can begin to convey the beauty and intensity [of the album]. There are five songs, but really they fit together as five expressions of the same basic piece, one sustained work". Jim Santella from All About Jazz wrote that the album's music "flows with a lyricism that remains highly regarded in today's format", with the review concluding that "Filles De Kilimanjaro remains one of the classic albums from their collaboration, and represents a high point in modern jazz".

Track listing

All songs were credited to Miles Davis.

Personnel

Miles Davis – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – Rhodes piano (2, 3, 4)
Chick Corea – piano, RMI Electra-Piano (1, 5)
Ron Carter – bass guitar (2, 3, 4)
Dave Holland – double bass (1, 5)
Tony Williams – drums

Technical personnel

Teo Macero – production
Frank Laico, Arthur Kendy – engineering
Hiro – cover art
Gil Evans (uncredited) – co-composer, arranger, co-producer