Great live recordings

[carl13]

If you enjoy Jazz, there are some great live recordings at Smalls Jazz Club.
The MAXJAZZ label has a series of Live at Yoshi's recordings. My favorites are Jessica Williams'.

 

[astrotoy]

If you enjoy Jazz, there are some great live recordings at Smalls Jazz Club.
The MAXJAZZ label has a series of Live at Yoshi's recordings. My favorites are Jessica Williams'.

I've been to Yoshi's after it moved to Jack London Square in Oakland. What do you think about live jazz music that uses amplified instruments - like electric keyboards, electric bass guitars, and even singers with mikes? The performance is live, but the sound is coming out of speakers. There is no acoustic instrument. For the human voice, if you are close, you can hear the real voice of the singer with the speakers, but farther way, you are hearing the speakers. We sometimes go to live musical theatre (Broadway and West End productions in NYC and London, for example) and they all have singers with body mikes and smaller and smaller orchestras, generally with at least some electric instruments. This is unlike classical music concerts and opera, which are all (or just about all) unamplified.

Larry

 

[Blue58]

If you enjoy Jazz, there are some great live recordings at Smalls Jazz Club.
The MAXJAZZ label has a series of Live at Yoshi's recordings. My favorites are Jessica Williams'.

One of the great live jazz albums and a video of Jimmy recording his last album. I watched him at Ronnie Scott’s and it was like being hit by genius. So grateful to witness his power.