 Marguerite Eskridge, Davis' girlfriend at the time, appeared in the album cover's photo collage.In "" (1981), Robert Christgau found "Miles Davis at Fillmore" to be less focused than "Bitches Brew" because the music meandered "unforgivably", particularly Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett's keyboard playing on "Wednesday".He said the tracks should have been edited down together to highlight the "treasures" they each offer, including "the cool atmospherics that lead off Wednesday, the hard bop in extremis toward the end of Thursday, the way Miles blows sharply lyrical over Jack DeJohnette's rock march and Airto Moreira's jungle sci-fi for the last few minutes of Friday, all the activity surrounding Steve Grossman's solo on Saturday".