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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Wonderful,
By Burvs (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Avocet (Audio CD)
Apparently even Bert himself lists this as his personal favorite recording of his accomplished career, and it's not hard to see why.Six beautiful and beguiling instrumentals: the 18-minute Avocet, and five other shorter pieces each named after a different bird. This is one of the finest acoustic guitarists of all time really at the top of his game. The pieces ebb and flow beautifully with various folky and jazzy themes disappearing and reappearing throughout. The mind boggles as to how the three musicians managed to remember the pieces, let alone play them so effortlessly. This is no cheesy "easy listening" music, however, and yet none of it is anything short of magical. Much of the album conists of the simple trio of Jansch's guitar with Danny Thompson's superb double bass playing and Martin Jenkins on fiddle, punctuated by the odd bit of piano and flute. The sound quality on this re-mastered cd is warm and inviting, too, without any of the over-produced, ultra-clean, digital harshness that blights more modern music of this ilk. A masterpiece from a true British master.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Avocet (Audio CD)
It borders on criminal that this instrumental collection has taken until 2003 to find a CD release. Jansch with Danny Thompson and Martin Jenkins turns in five folk and jazzy tracks with some superb instrumental work. The analogue production and some of the worst of the noodling on the instruments show their age but elsewhere this is some of the most inspired and evocative music that Jansch ever created. The one minute and thirty seconds of 'Lapwing' provide one rare delight, a solo Bert Jansch piano piece.
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Hooray! At last!,
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This review is from: Avocet (Audio CD)
This is one of my all-time favourite albums dating back to its first appearance on vinyl about a hundred years ago. It is so wonderfully soothing and harmonious that I am amazed it isn't better known. I now use it a background music in my therapy practice, to drive to on long journeys and for lazy evenings in front of the fire. It's fabulous and Bert Jansch is a virtuoso!
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