Cool, confident professionals. All of them. If the musicians were as anxious as the crowd, I didn't sense it. Often if I go into something with high expectations, they are at best simply met, and I have a great time. They weren't listening or interacting successfully with each other.
Mileage varies, of course.
I didn't want you to think that I'm a big fan of horns. And, frankly, many improvisational music fanatics tend to like their brass and reeds in small doses. Horn tones can conflict with, instead of complement, The Rock Star Guitarist, the ringing cymbals, or the pianist's or keyboardist's more delicate maneuvers. And, true to Miles Davis early 1970's form, this Fillmore concert was as much an improvisational JAZZ gig as it was an improvisational ROCK gig. The sound created by this 12-piece band was so phenomenally intense that, like the music Miles created in the early to mid 1970's, it was worthy of a new name.