The Montreal Tapes with the Liberation Music Orchestra

The Montreal Tapes with the Liberation Music Orchestra Artist: Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731452746924
EAN: 0731452746924
ASIN: B00000ILX5


Release Date: 1999-04-27

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Tracks:

  1. La Pasionaria
  2. Silence
  3. Sandino
  4. We Shall Overcome

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Food for the fourlorn soul.......2001-01-06

It is clear from the first listening of this album that the reunion of these musicians brought them quite a bit of joy, and that joy sounds off clearly on the tracks of "la passionara" and "We shall overcome". LMO purists will undoubtably remain loyal to the original recordings, but Joe Lavano solo's with passion and Charlie Haden holds court. Seeing that a previous review on this site noted distracting crowd noise, I'd like to comment that the interaction of the crowd adds to the texture of the music. This is definately a reunion concert, and the band holds true to what a reunion should be, a celebration of musical colaberation. This music is both passionate and uplifting, it goes deep, but retains it's effervescence.

2 out of 5 stars Where's the rest of it?.......2000-01-11

What happened here? The first two Liberation Music records are excellent, and the rest of the Montreal Tapes series is superb, and there must have been more than one CDs worth of music from this particular gig. If what's on here is the best of the lot, that's a sad commentary.
There are many problems with this record. The band's playing is sloppy and sounds seriously under-rehearsed. The quality of expression in the ensemble and solos is dull for the most part, and, bizarrely enough, the selections have nowhere near the excitement found on the original studio recordings. The best musical moments come on the final jam on "We Shall Overcome," but this also lays the fault of the record bare - other than the social-consciousness title, there seems no reason for selecting that song, since once the melody is played, a long blues jam ensues which has nothing to do with the tune itself, and the good playing here, especially a brilliant solo by Joe Lovano, is constantly interrupted by an overenthusiastic fan too close to the mike who whoops it up, literally, over virtually every note and banal, throwaway gesture. It's irritating enough to make it unlistenable.

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