Best Sounding Live recordings,all formats

This has to be up there. VAN MORRISON recorded live in concert Los Angeles and London summer 1973. 

This also has to be up there with the best Live albums!

Actually that is the same approach the Sound Liaison people have used, recording with an audience present.

this intimate effort is one of the best and best-sounding jazz vocal albums to come along in many a day. By the way, the small audience applauds enthusiastically enough after the last chords of a song die away, but the attendees never interrupt or make themselves known while a song is going on. No doubt they were completely mesmerized into silence, as was I.
Be sure to listen to: On "Dock of the Bay", Gomes creates a languid, bluesy version that is a little bit reminiscent of Bobbie Gentry while still coming across as quite original. It'll cast a spell over you"........

Rad Bennet

 

This is after all the Naim forum so maybe it is time to put a Naim album on this thread.

his one is very good;

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus ain't too shabby!

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One of the best live albums ever.

Kraftwerk's Minumum Maximum is wonderfully recorded, and one of my favourites.

I recall Doug Graham used the track 'Keith Don't Go' from this album as a demo for the CD555 through a SuperNait at Bristol many years ago. It must have sounded good for me to have remembered it!

For early Jazz nothing beats Duke Ellington Newport Jazz Festival, I think '74 a few years before he died.  First side is his opener for the evening show of 2 other bands, 2nd side closes the evening, the crowd goes WILD!!!  you can hear them in the back row cheering, front row unglued egging them on with his latin Sax player doing a solo between the two Diminuendos.  It's now on 180 gram, worth every penny to hear a master and his band.

I gave my original to a guy who tuned my TT and brought life to my system, he called and says he plays it at least once a day. Culmination of a great man's career.

Ellington at Newport  MoFi Sound lab

is this the one? 1956.

In an electrifying performance by the band, Gonsalves – who hadn't played the piece in a while, and was initially uncertain of his way around it – played 27 improvised choruses in a raunchily R&B and gospel-inflected manner. It was an astonishing example of a musician playing way out of his skin – and one who had never been in Ellington's front rank of star soloists. The record producer George Avakian said of the Newport crowd: "Halfway through Paul's solo, it had become an enormous, single, living organism." The critic Leonard Feather, reviewing the show for Down Beat magazine, wrote: "Here and there in the reduced, but still multitudinous crowd, a couple got up and started jitterbugging. Within minutes, the whole of Freedom Park was transformed as if struck by a thunderbolt ... hundreds of spectators climbed up on their chairs to see the action; the band built the magnificent arrangement to its perennial peak and the crowd, spent, sat limply wondering what could follow this."

Ellington's faltering reputation was rejuvenated overnight. The show won one of the loudest ovations in Newport festival history, and on the strength of it the bandleader made the cover of Time, the magazine declaring that "the Ellington band was once again the most exciting thing in the business. Ellington himself had emerged from a long period of quiescence, and was once again bursting with ideas and inspiration." That night was to be followed by a new dawn for Ellington's late-period creativity, and the worldwide appeal of his orchestra. It was a momentum destined to be sustained until Ellington's death in 1974.

This is excellent.

I agree!!

......& so is this!

G

I bought this on CD after reading this thread.  It is very good.

How about Berlin Philharmonic?

free streaming concert at their website, marvelous.

Patricia Barber/ COMPANION

I like the sound of the bass on that album but the guitar bothers me a bit.(the sound that is, not the playing).

I think she actually bettered this admittedly excellent album with "Shadows and Light". Metheny on guitar and Pastorious on bass.

+ 1 for Little Feat, "Waiting for Columbus"

+ 1 for Joni Mitchel, "Shadows and Light"

I was blown away hearing, watching this on DVD:

I also really like Brubeck, Desmond:

Joe Bonamassa is also great on the DVD from Royal Albert Hall: