LIVE JAZZ RECORDINGS


Can you reccomend a live jazz recording that is available on cd .
tennisball

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Tennisball: I like live stuff too sometimes and sometimes not. I am curious like Scott as to why you like live and exactly what is "live" anyway? In front of an audiece I guess?

Sometimes the crowd adds excitement or something which I like and sometimes I want to tell then to "shut up" as the noise just gets in the way. In any event, I tend to like live pop music more than jazz. Especially, if the pop music is recorded piece by piece (individual tracks for everybody) and then mixed. It's hard to put together a good recording that way and to often you hear the "seams" of the mix. You avoid this with a live performance and when musicans actually play together there seems to be a dynamic that cannot be created by editing and mixing a bunch of solos done in recording boths. This is true for vocals and instruments. There is thread now that talks about some cds sounding worse the more you improve your equipment. In my opinion this holds true for lots of studio pop stuff.

More of the good jazz studio recordings are actually recorded "live" in the sense that everybody is in the studio at one time playin the music. Sadly, I've been told that this is a rarity in popular music these days. Many of the so called "live" performaces are dubbed to death back in the studio too.

Back to the thread and as Scott says there are so many I will give you one listened to today:

Horace Silver, Natives are Restless Tonight. I think this is cut from several concerts.

Sincerely, I remain
Sc53: apparently 3 different recordings/volumes? which volume do you have? Are they all good?

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