LImp3.net

John McLaughlin - Montreux Concerts 1974-1999 (2003) (17CD Box Set)
Label: Warner Music, Montreux Sounds | 17CD | MP3 320 kbps | 2.14 GB
Genre: Jazz, Fusion, Post Bop, World, Guitar

The 17 minute version of "Meeting of the Spirits" on the One Truth Band 1977 CD with Shankar and Sonship Theus is MINDBLOWING, second only to the FRIGHTENING, GODLIKE version on the legendary Mahavishnu Cleveland 1972 concert.

The SHAKTI discs are all PRIME, just fantastic stuff, as good and often better than any of the previously released Shakti & Remember Shakti albums. The Chick Duet Disc is considered by some fans I've talked to, a masterpiece concert, but for me it was only quietly impressive with a little too much we-are-geniuses-jazzifying posturing, especially on Corea's part.

The Live version of "Seven Sisters" on the Heart of Things Concert is amazing. The simultaneous soloing by John and Gary Thomas on this tune is the quintessence of all that is great about fusion.

The ULTIMATE CONCERT though or at least the one with the highest quotient of SHEER FUN is the De Lucia /McLaughlin Duets disc. They both do a crazy solo set each before they start jamming and it quickly turns into the most jaw-dropping acoustic playing you've ever heard. On a par and often surpassing anything on "Friday Night in San Francisco," (Di Meola being absent notwithstanding, in fact, this seems to make things a little more loose and soulful). The versions of "Spain," "Florianapolis," "David" and "Guardian Angel" on here are so intense and so awesome, I would pay 230 dollars just for that one concert alone! The first time you hear it, you will swear De Lucia has no peer on acoustic guitar and never will have one. The tenth time you listen, once you're more into what's actually being played than clarity of tone and sheer warp speed, you realize that McLaughlin is the man, that he's the one that truly keeps these tunes endlessly DEEP & interesting with his superior knowledge of scales and restless inventiveness. Because of this, he plays stuff in improvisation that De Lucia, as great as he is, absolutely could not play without having to sit down and run through it a few times first.



Tracklist:

Disc 1
July 7, 1974 Convention Center Montreux / Mahavishnu Orchestra
1. Power Of Love (5:54)
2. Wings Of Karma (21:43)
3. Smile Of The Beyond (23:25)

Disc 2
July 7, 1974 Convention Center Montreux / Mahavishnu Orchestra
1. Vision Is A Naked Sword (26:04)
2. Hymn To Him (28:29)
3. Sanctuary (17:27)

Disc 3
July 6, 1976 Montreux Casino / Shakti
1. Joy (13:29)
2. India (22:47)

Disc 4
July 6, 1976 Montreux Casino / Shakti
1. Nata (36:23)
2. Kriti (4:10)

Disc 5
July 8, 1977 Montreux Casino / Shakti
1. La Danse Du Bonheur (11:29)
2. India (23:46)
3. Get Down And Sruti (28:38)
4 Joy (8:52)

Disc 6
July 19, 1978 Montreux Casino / John McLaughlin Band
1. Meeting Of The Spirits (16:57)
2. Friendship (11:48)
3. Two Sisters (5:38)
4. Mind Ecology & Do You Hear The Voices We Left Behind (27:51)
5. Phenomenon Compulsion & Hope (8:16)

Disc 7
July 15, 1981 Montreux Casino / John McLaughlin with Chick Corea
1. La Baleine (9:21)
2. Waltze (8:42)
3. Romance (10:24)
4. Sketches (9:33)
5. Turn Around (10:43)
6. Thelonius Melodius (8:43)
7. Beautiful Love (dedicated to Bill Evans) (6:31)

Disc 8
July 18, 1984 Montreux Casino / Mahavishnu Orchestra
1. Radio Activity (9:43)
2. Nostalgia (11:13)
3. East Side West Side (14:19)
4. Clarendon Hills (9:53)
5. Blues For L.W., It's The Pits & Living On The Crest Of A Wave (13:42)

Disc 9
July 18, 1984 Montreux Casino / Mahavishnu Orchestra
1. Jozy (13:28)
2.Pacific Express (21:06)
3. Mitch Match (7:47)
4. Mitch Match (reprise) (6:09)

Disc 10
July 15, 1987 Montreux Casino / John McLaughlin And Paco De Lucia
1. One Melody & My Foolish Heart (9:09)
2. El Panuelo (6:12)
3. Spain (10:11)
4. Chiquito (8:45)
5. Florianapolis (11:37)

Disc 11
July 15, 1987 Montreux Casino / John McLaughlin And Paco De Lucia
1. Frevo (7:55)
2. David (10:58)
3. Sichia (7:04)
4. Guardian Angels (6:31)

Disc 12
July 4, 1993 Stravinski Auditorium / John McLaughlin With The Free Spirits
1. Thelonius Melodius (7:04)
2. Matinale (16:18)
3. When Love Is Far Away (5:52)
4. Nostalgia (7:16)
5. Mother Tongues (13:50)
6. One Nite Stand (4:35)

Disc 13
July 18, 1995 Stravinski Auditorium / John McLaughlin With The Free Spirits
1. Tones For Elvin Jones (9:21)
2. Matinale (20:18)
3. Sing Me Softly Of The Blues (7:55)
4. The Wall Will Fall (14:28)

Disc 14
July 18, 1995 Stravinski Auditorium / John McLaughlin With The Free Spirits
1. After The Rain (5:58)
2. Mother Tongues (20:50)
3. Old Folk s (6:33)

Disc 15
July 11, 1998 Stravinski Auditorium / John McLaughlin and The Heart Of Things
1. Seven Sisters (14:05)
2. Social Climate (9:47)
3. Mr. D.C. (12:53)
4. Tony (7:21)
5. Acid Jazz (12:53)
6. Jazz Jungle (9:40)

Disc 16
July 8, 1999 Miles Davis Hall / John McLaughlin
1. Five In The Morning, 6 In The Afternoon (16:51)
2. Ma No Pa (11:16)
3. Anna (14:30)
4. Finding The Way (20:15)
5. La Danse Du Bonheur (4:50)

Disc 17 (Bonus CD)
July 4, 1993 Stravinski Auditorium and July 8, 1996 Stravinski Auditorium / Carlos Santana
1. Canto de Xango (6:12)
2 Frevo (9:00)

[ john mclaughlin montreux concerts 1974 1999 2003 17cd box set ] @ 11 октября 2011 в 09:01