A new find, courtesy of Roon’s daily mixes. A fun and generally light-hearted gig showing off some phenomenal vocal talent.
It’s pretty hard to pull out the favourite live album, but it’s one of my favourite live albums. Just a man with his guitar, very entertaining and political + social critical.
i love this album. she sounds like Carole King in much of it.
Glad you like it I’m embarrassed to say that I haven’t actively listened to Carole King! Which album(s) would you recommend?
I came across this last week. I love the sound of intimate jazz and rock concerts and this one is no exception. Sadly only one track, And Then There Was You, is available! Why they wouldn’t release the whole album I can’t understand. I guess I’m going to have to learn to extract the audio from the Blu Ray release. . .
start with Tapestry.
I would suggest that the first three albums are a good place to start. All of them are a great listen…then move on to Laura Nyro
Writer/Tapestry/Music.
Every version of Powderfinger, I love that song…
Again I’m not sure if it’s THE favourite live album in my library. But definitely one I do really love.
+1 !!! [quote=“Franko, post:342, topic:99082, full:true”]
[/quote]
One of the very best of the very live albums ever made!
Amulet just won the album of the year award.
The label has it on special celebration offer; michael-moore-paul-berner albums special offer
Blockquote On Amulet, we have two talented Jazz musicians – Michael Moore on Clarinet and Paul Berner on Double Bass. Berner first appeared at NativeDSD with his band on a tribute to the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney titled This Bird Has Flown.
Recorded with One Microphone by Sound Liaison’s Frans de Rond, Amulet is the kind of album that lends itself to this recording technique. Moore’s Clarinet takes the lead and Berner’s Double Bass follows along, with the two musicians participating in a very musical interplay. It is straightforward good music.
A pleasure to sit back and enjoy.
– Brian Moura
Blockquote"When I saw a video of the recording session I was immediately sold. There is one microphone set up. I repeat, 1 microphone.
On a chair Michael Moore has taken a seat, with his clarinet.
Nearby stands the bassist, Paul Berner. Two Americans who have lived in the Netherlands for a long time. They know each other, there is trust, you can see it, you can feel it, in the way in which,
in total relaxation, a magnificent dialogue unfolds, with few notes, but in such a way that every note hits, and much remains unsaid, precisely in the space between the melody and the bass line. You don’t have to explain everything, they know that, they have experience.
Moore & Berner have completed an entire album in one day, with songs from their native country. It’s about jazz standards, classics from The American Songbook, as it’s called. But also pieces that you wouldn’t expect to find on it, songs by Joni Mitchell, for example, or ‘You Never Walk Alone’. And Moore also contributed a few compositions. But they all get the same treatment. There’s something enchanting in them.
Listen for example to the standard ‘I never knew’, which they transposed to a different key so that Berner can play a cool bass line under it. And ‘Answer me my love’ is just another song that doesn’t lend itself to jazz at all. Yes, until Moore and Berner get involved!" Passaggio
I’m a bit astonished this haven’t shown up before.
Bought this on a school trip in 1975, from Cob Records in Porthmadog, Wales.
Still have it. It’s a great live document of the band at the end of their original era, before the sound started to change and become more subtly commercial.
Cob is amazingly still doing business.
Cob Records - Wales’ Premier Record Store
Ice Ice Baby !!!