What's your favourite LIVE!!! Album?

24bit

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Impromptu

I guess the Sound Liaison guys has listened to my plea.

The new album with Batik is one long suite.The studio audience does not start applauding until after the last song. And it is by the way their best sounding album or...?
and cheapest $15 for a flac download.
http://www.soundliaison.com/
I don't know about ''best sounding'' I think that the Paul Berner and the Carmen Gomes and the Andre Heuvelman are equally good sounding but of course the music on those albums is different, but any how, it is indeed one of the best sounding downloads in my collection together with the 3 just mentioned.
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Did you hear the latest?
It is everything a live album should be, loads of atmosphere, incredible interplay, fantastic sound and conveying a feeling of being there. This is NOT a studio audience.
It has been in constant ''rotation'' since I got it , if you can use that expression for a Hi-res download.:)
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Link to sound samples;http://www.soundliaison.com/
 
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Impromptu is a superb recording. It has some of the most realistic piano I have ever heard on a recording.
 

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Impromptu is a superb recording. It has some of the most realistic piano I have ever heard on a recording.

Yes, I find the whole recording full of realism, good sounding realism that is:D
Interesting liner notes too;
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...........
........Later halfway through the concert the windows of the room had to be opened for air. The DJ turned off his music but he was immediately replaced by the sound of birds singing.
If listening closely one can hear them, chime in, in the quiet parts.
Link for further reading;http://www.soundliaison.com/
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Deep Forest: Made in Japan (live)
This an absolutely fantastic album. World music of phenomenal creativity. The recording quality is also exceptional with dynamics that will test the mettle of any system. I think I read somewhere that HP thought it was one of best live albums ever made. I wouldn't disagree! This album will rock your socks off.


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Deep Forest: Made in Japan (live)
This an absolutely fantastic album. World music of phenomenal creativity. The recording quality is also exceptional with dynamics that will test the mettle of any system. I think I read somewhere that HP thought it was one of best live albums ever made. I wouldn't disagree! This album will rock your socks off.


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Marty - Not doubting your sincerity one iota, but I always have to wonder about the comments I read (see bolded). I never quite know whether they are referring to the actual recording, the mastering, the pressing, the music and performance itself or as a whole entity. I've seen far too many albums being proclaimed as the best (or one of...) yet the music would put even a sloth to sleep. Not saying this album does that, but you get my drift surely. Seeing as this is a "favourite LIVE" album thread and not a "best" album thread, feel free to throw out my observation with the bathwater. :)
 

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HP (rest in peace) list of best music albums is (if I remember correctly, without checking in my "Aboso!ute Sound" audio mags) based on quality recordings, with the exact serial numbers from the the record labels the albums came from (CDs too). ...But the music playing from the performers was also one of his other criteria. ...And a general agreement between other audio/music reviewers.
* I spent a lot of money because of Harry P. and gang. :b

But I spent even more money from some UK audio mags, on quality music recordings and performances too, ...say like from Hi?Fi+ for example, from the music recordings section @ the end.
If it is a specific album (LP, 180 or 200gr, CD, HDCD, SACD, XRCD24, ...) they always tell you, with the exact serial number. ...Same with Stereophile.
 

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Marty - Not doubting your sincerity one iota, but I always have to wonder about the comments I read (see bolded).

Understood JV, but HP's comment is irrelevant. This is a flat out masterpiece of a live album...if of course, the music moves you.
 

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Deep Forest: Made in Japan (live)
This an absolutely fantastic album. World music of phenomenal creativity. The recording quality is also exceptional with dynamics that will test the mettle of any system. I think I read somewhere that HP thought it was one of best live albums ever made. I wouldn't disagree! This album will rock your socks off.


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I agree. I have most of their albums but this one is the best
 

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I love this album, and have racked up hours listening to it. In fact, I will play it again tonight.

Get Yer Ya-Yas Out - Rolling Stones

 

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HP (rest in peace) list of best music albums is (if I remember correctly, without checking in my "Aboso!ute Sound" audio mags) based on quality recordings, with the exact serial numbers from the the record labels the albums came from (CDs too). ...But the music playing from the performers was also one of his other criteria. ...And a general agreement between other audio/music reviewers.
* I spent a lot of money because of Harry P. and gang. :b
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Yes dear old HP--how we fauned and followed---but he flunked out in my book over that Original Casino Royale LP--Mehhhhh!

My fav live Album?--yes peasant that I am--don't own it anymore but it sure did it's thing in my informative years-ha!:D

Hot August Night --Neil Diamond

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World music covers such a wide spectrum, so best checked out for "move quotient"! Amazon has 30 second snippets of each song on the album.

Lee

Same with www.allmusic.com



Just click ^ on it, and press ? (Play) on top (right @ left next by Deep Forest - Made in Japan) for non-stop music of all the tunes (30 seconds each), or click the Play button of each individual song and you can skip any by clicking Play on the next one.
 
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Oh, one more thing; if you check carefully you are in the JAZZ section of the Music Forums. :b

The recent vague of music selections are not from the Jazz music genre; so few of you are simply off-topic, in the wrong thread. :b;):D

Electronica, Rock&Roll and Pop music ain't no Jazz.
 

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Oops. Sorry. I just saw the title in New Threads and jumped in. :)
 

NorthStar

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1. It's no big deal @ all, and it's funny. :b
2. It takes only one person to be off-track and the horde just follows. :b ...It can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.
3. It's good to be talking about music anyway; it's missing here @ WBF. ...So right thread or wrong one it doesn't take away from what's missing.
 

NorthStar

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I went back in the thread, and Tim started to be off-topic back in 2013 (two years ago): [POST]227781[/POST]

Is Grateful Dead jazz music? ...Here's Robert in 2014: [POST]285042[/POST]

? And here's the original OP's post (Gary): [POST]176156[/POST]
 

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I may have to go with the dave Brubeck quartet's great 1972 live performance[together again for the first time].
 

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Great list!
Let me recommend a new audiophile;) live album;
Monty Alexander's former bassist Paul Berner has released a gorgeous Bill Frisell inspired Elvis tribute or maybe a musical narrative on the life of Elvis would be a better description.
The music was recorded by the Sound Liaison people in Amsterdam in the studio in front of a live audience.
The sound quality is incredibly good, and so is the playing and choice of repertoire.
Reed player Michael Moore is puttin 'in what maybe his most touching and melodic performance ever, Pieter Teehuis of Metropol orchestra fame is clearly enjoying the freedom of a small setting and the almost telepathic interplay with 2nd guitarist ED Verhoeff.No drums in this quartet and they are not needed with Paul Berner keepin' the whole thing in place with his majestic bass playing.

The only downfall of the album is that you have the audience applauding between tunes.I wish they had edited that out when mixing but in all fairness I have the same problem when listening to i.e. Bill Evans at the Vanguard or Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note. The music on those album takes me to certain mental state and somehow the applause always comes too soon,(waking me up?)
But anyhow highly recommended.
The album is available as a 24/96 Studio Master Wav download at the Sound Liaison website;http://www.soundliaison.com/
One can listen to all tracks, full length, in Mp3 format on the website


Yes I have that one too and agree with you that ''the only downfall of the album is the applauding between tunes'' , same goes for the now often bespoken album from the same company, recorded in the same series, the ''Thousand Shades of Blue'' download/album from Carmen Gomes, but less for the Benny Green album mentioned above.
The music that Miss Gomes and band is making and indeed Paul Berner too, is somehow so calming and soothing that you don't want to be taken away from that state of mind that the music puts you in.
The Sound Liaison people has just released a new album,''After Silence'' which has been recorded in the same studio but without an audience. ''After Silence'' has the same effect but without the ''waking you up'' between the tunes. And the trumpet player Andre Heuvelman is incredible, where does Sound Liaison find these musicians!?

and they are giving away 2 downloads as well:
http://www.soundliaison.com/;)

Their latest is not live but sounds very live in the studio so no applause.
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As suggested in the other thread, here's a thread in Jazz.

I'll start with:

Jessica Williams: Live at Yoshi's Vol. 1 & 2
Oscar Peterson: Nigerian Marketplace
Ellington: Jazz Party (in both Stereo and Mono)
Ordered all four :). Thanks Gary. First ones from HDTracks the others on CD from Amazon.
 

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