Superb Live Recordings, post your favorites.
Posted by: Peet on 21 March 2015
"There is a special magic, an intimate vibrancy in a live performance which is impossible to recreate in the studio. I have often been asked to record live - a prospect which I have aspired to and dreaded at the same time - and I am delighted to finally have had the chance to do so. Here is some food for thought without any additives, sugar or preservatives. Enjoy." 
The room was filled to the brim with audio enthusiasts, the closest listener being just a few feet from the musicians and the microphones.
When the audience is so close to the musicians, a synergy occurs. The audience becomes part of the music making and help spur the musicians on to great heights.
The musicians feeling the empathy from the audience dare to take chances that one rarely hears in a studio recording.
Tony and Bert had not performed together as a duo before, and no rehearsal had taken place prior to the Rhapsody concert, but the music these two masters of improvisation created that sunny afternoon in Rhapsody, is simply breathtaking.
This trio is still widely regarded as his finest, largely because of the symbiotic interplay between its members. Tragically, LaFaro was killed in an automobile accident ten days after this session was recorded, and Evans assembled the two packages a few months afterward. While "Waltz for Debby" -- in retrospect -- is seemingly a showcase for Evans' brilliant, subtle, and wide-ranging pianism, this volume becomes an homage, largely, to the genius and contribution of LaFaro. That said, however, this were never the point. According to Motian, when Evans built this trio based on live gigs at the Basin Street East, the intention was always to develop a complete interactive trio experience.
migo posted:k posted:Peet posted:It has been recorded in DXD. I'm listening to the 96pcm; it is a fantastically well recorded album;
http://www.soundliaison.com/
+1
AND well played!
I have all her albums and maybe this is the best. It is so fresh and you feel the immediacy of a live recording.
According to the liner notes this is all 1th takes, so no ''cleaning up'' and ''repairing'' afterwards.
You can hear it at the end of the tour de force ''Cotton Fields'' where Carmen Gomes goes a little off at the very last note.
But that's it. I love the album, superb SQ and so very well played.
Very impressive indeed. I wonder if the ´no repairs` approach accounts for the impressive sound quality. The bass sounds like a bass, the drums like drums and the guitar sounds like a guitar coming straight from a Fender amp. The voice of Carmen Gomes is captured perfectly but best of all is the way it all blends. It really is a band in front you. Not 4 separate musicians in each their own room.
I was checking the site and it seems to be the first in a series of DXD recordings they recorded in that studio:
"In our new DXD live in the studio series we have asked a select group of European top musicians to recreate one of their favorite albums in their own image." liner notes carmen-gomes-sings-the-blues
It says that; "Paul Berner went for the Beatles “Rubber Soul” !
I love his Elvis tribute; "Road to Memphis'' so I will be looking forward to that recording.
Did someone say John Martyn?
Im showing my age now, but Frampton Comes Alive is the best live rock LP Ive heard
NFG posted:Im showing my age now, but Frampton Comes Alive is the best live rock LP Ive heard
Yes indeed, maybe comes close to David Gilmour's 'Live in Gdansk', but for alive as opposed to a live, its the best by some margin. & no age has nothing to do with it.
Mike-B posted:NFG posted:Im showing my age now, but Frampton Comes Alive is the best live rock LP Ive heard
Yes indeed, maybe comes close to David Gilmour's 'Live in Gdansk', but for alive as opposed to a live, its the best by some margin. & no age has nothing to do with it.
Think I'll give that album a try. It's very many years since I've listened to any of his albums.
Hi Mike-B & MDS thanks for posting, threads like this are so useful for tracking down good music so Im really pleased Ive posted something helpful 
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Going to give it a spin tonight, think I was 18 when it came out & summer of 76 was fab.
enjoy, N
migo posted:k posted:Peet posted:It has been recorded in DXD. I'm listening to the 96pcm; it is a fantastically well recorded album;
+1
AND well played!
I have all her albums and maybe this is the best. It is so fresh and you feel the immediacy of a live recording.
According to the liner notes this is all 1th takes, so no ''cleaning up'' and ''repairing'' afterwards.
You can hear it at the end of the tour de force ''Cotton Fields'' where Carmen Gomes goes a little off at the very last note.
But that's it. I love the album, superb SQ and so very well played.
Very impressive indeed. I wonder if the ´no repairs` approach accounts for the impressive sound quality. The bass sounds like a bass, the drums like drums and the guitar sounds like a guitar coming straight from a Fender amp. The voice of Carmen Gomes is captured perfectly but best of all is the way it all blends. It really is a band in front you. Not 4 separate musicians in each their own room.
I was checking the site and it seems to be the first in a series of DXD recordings they recorded in that studio:
"In our new DXD live in the studio series we have asked a select group of European top musicians to recreate one of their favorite albums in their own image." liner notes carmen-gomes-sings-the-blues
for those interested there is only week left off the generous introduction offer on that download.
Schnerzinger and Zellaton used the album at the Munich High End Show .
It's Friday night in London too, but the 552 has Tardis'd me to to San Francisco in the presence of 3 stunning guitarists for an hour or so..
k posted:migo posted:k posted:Peet posted:It has been recorded in DXD. I'm listening to the 96pcm; it is a fantastically well recorded album;
+1
AND well played!
I have all her albums and maybe this is the best. It is so fresh and you feel the immediacy of a live recording.
According to the liner notes this is all 1th takes, so no ''cleaning up'' and ''repairing'' afterwards.
You can hear it at the end of the tour de force ''Cotton Fields'' where Carmen Gomes goes a little off at the very last note.
But that's it. I love the album, superb SQ and so very well played.
Very impressive indeed. I wonder if the ´no repairs` approach accounts for the impressive sound quality. The bass sounds like a bass, the drums like drums and the guitar sounds like a guitar coming straight from a Fender amp. The voice of Carmen Gomes is captured perfectly but best of all is the way it all blends. It really is a band in front you. Not 4 separate musicians in each their own room.
I was checking the site and it seems to be the first in a series of DXD recordings they recorded in that studio:
"In our new DXD live in the studio series we have asked a select group of European top musicians to recreate one of their favorite albums in their own image." liner notes carmen-gomes-sings-the-blues
for those interested there is only week left off the generous introduction offer on that download.
Schnerzinger and Zellaton used the album at the Munich High End Show .
Nagra also used the album in Munich
48 hours left on the promo price.
introduction offer Carmen Gomes Sings The Blues
Peet posted:k posted:migo posted:k posted:Peet posted:It has been recorded in DXD. I'm listening to the 96pcm; it is a fantastically well recorded album;
+1
AND well played!
I have all her albums and maybe this is the best. It is so fresh and you feel the immediacy of a live recording.
According to the liner notes this is all 1th takes, so no ''cleaning up'' and ''repairing'' afterwards.
You can hear it at the end of the tour de force ''Cotton Fields'' where Carmen Gomes goes a little off at the very last note.
But that's it. I love the album, superb SQ and so very well played.
Very impressive indeed. I wonder if the ´no repairs` approach accounts for the impressive sound quality. The bass sounds like a bass, the drums like drums and the guitar sounds like a guitar coming straight from a Fender amp. The voice of Carmen Gomes is captured perfectly but best of all is the way it all blends. It really is a band in front you. Not 4 separate musicians in each their own room.
I was checking the site and it seems to be the first in a series of DXD recordings they recorded in that studio:
"In our new DXD live in the studio series we have asked a select group of European top musicians to recreate one of their favorite albums in their own image." liner notes carmen-gomes-sings-the-blues
for those interested there is only week left off the generous introduction offer on that download.
Schnerzinger and Zellaton used the album at the Munich High End Show .
Nagra also used the album in Munich
48 hours left on the promo price.
introduction offer Carmen Gomes Sings The Blues
Nagra also used this great Rudy van Gelder Blues recording';
the sound actually reminds me of the Gomes album. 
Geofiz posted:
Simply outstanding recording that Neil sat on for decades. Absolutely fantastic on vinyl.
Not only fantastic on vinyl, but also on FLAC via a Naim streamer!
Hearing this through B&W 802's, it is like Neil is standing right in front of you, especially on "Don't let it bring you down" and "Down by the river". Very good sound quality.
Neil was at the peak of his creative power here, as he is telling at the intro of "Journey through the past": "I'm gonna sing mostly new songs tonight, maybe only a couple of more old ones. I've written so many new ones that I can't think of anything else to do with them, other than sing them.... you know".
The guy has a nice high & young voice here, just 25 years old. It was recorded 1 month before his famous BBC sessions on 23 Feb 1971.
I'll take a listen to that Neil Young album based on your recommendation
Mr Underhill posted:Many of the above are firm favourites but I'll add:
Mr Underhill,
would you clarify please if this is CD or LP, or Hi Res, label and year of release. I like very much this concert. Have a Delux edition - 2xCDs and a DVD. Unfortunately the SQ is very poor.
ATB,
Ivo