Music CD - Trio of Doom, John McLaughlin: The Trio of Doom Live

	Music CD: The Trio of Doom Live Artist: Trio of Doom, John McLaughlin List Price: $13.98 Our Price: $7.81 Your Save: $ 6.17 ( 44% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony Legacy
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Tracks: 1. Drum Improvisation (Live) 2. Dark Prince (Live) 3. Continuum (Live) 4. Para Oriente (Live) 5. Are You the One, Are You the One? (Live) 6. Dark Prince (Studio) 7. Continuum (Studio) 8. Para Oriente (Alternate Take One/Studio) 9. Para Oriente (Alternate Take Two/Studio) 10. Para Oriente (Studio)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0827969645024 Format: Live Label: Sony Legacy Manufacturer: Sony Legacy Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Legacy Release Date: 2007-06-26 Studio: Sony Legacy
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: WOW! Comment: What an amazing cd! The line up of Tony, John, and Jaco is amazing. Tony's drumming is as close to perfect as you can get. If you want a cd that will blow your mind away, this is it. Customer Rating: Summary: Trio of Doom Comment: I've been playing music and listening to these guys seperatly since the 70's and it was cool to listen to them jam together. Brings back memories of the spirit of free music and free expression. Although I don't feel it was their best performances I still enjoyed it and a great addition to my collection. Customer Rating: Summary: Historically Essential Comment: You must play this loud, when non-appreciative people are out. The main tracks are seriously GREAT, the add-ons from the studio are a bit ordinary but make the collection complete. Three awesome players having musical fun pushing each others' boundaries, wonderful stuff! Customer Rating: Summary: Doomsday After Only One Gig And Brief Session Comment: Nearly 30 years ago, the last supergroup took to the stage at a special event and performed sometimes sizzling fusion jazz in a frustratingly uneven 25 minute set. And the brief peek into the potential of the Trio of Doom ended in a studio session soon after the gig. The Trio of Doom - John McLaughlin, guitar; Jaco Pastorius, bass; Tony Williams, drums - performed at the March 3, 1979, Havana (Cuba) Jam festival and entered a New York City studio for the only time five days later to work on some of the material from the show. The only recorded music from the power trio is gathered for the first time in this self-titled CD. Three of the songs recorded in the studio did appear as "live" cuts from the concert - crowd noise was dubbed in - on the 1979, Havana Jam (Dark Prince) and Havana Jam 2 (Continuum, Para Oriente). McLaughlin had deemed the live performance inferior to the studio work and balked at having the performance released on vinyl. Back in the day - 1970s and 1980s - many concert albums were hardly live recordings. They oftentimes had vast studio overdubs or entire songs redone in the studio. The practice was not out of the ordinary, but it does not diminish the criticism by music historians, fans and reviewers of what must be termed a fraudulant practice. And though the concert has lightning-infused energy, sparked by some of McLaughlin's finest performances from that decade, after the set opened with a scorching drum improvisation by Williams. McLaughlin powers through the group's initial number, Dark Prince, seemingly urging Pastorius to take the challenge. The Pastorius lead bass lines in Continuum are neat, but are nearly swallowed whole by McLaughlin's artful rhythm. The quirky intro to Para Oriente leads to excellent interplay between McLaughlin and Williams, with the band finally clicking on Are You The One, Are You The One? Pastorius is much crisper in the studio, as the trio recorded Dark Prince, Continuum and Para Oriente. The bass work especially stands out on Continuum, with the band reaching for new heights on Para Oriente, after a pair of alternate takes that clock in at 1:05 and 20 seconds. Through the extreme highs and lows, the importance of this short-lived group cannot be diminished in the nearly 40 minutes of music. This was an end of an era in many ways....and though the music sounds extremely fresh after the dust was brushed off the original tapes, it is the any number of "what if's" the Trio of Doom left after the studio session that may be the most frustrating for listeners. Customer Rating: Summary: Unlistenable Comment: Pointless noodling. Yes, the three musicians featured in this live Havana gig (which also features some some studio extras) did, on their own, create some fine jazz-rock fusion, but together, as heard on this dull cd, hardly create enough of a flame to light up a Cuban cigar. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Recorded at the 1979 Havana Jazz Festival, this short and powerful set, with Miles Davis alumni, drummer Tony Williams and guitarist John McLaughlin, and Weather Report bassist Jaco Pastorius, was one for the ages. The previously unreleased selections, one through five, are explosive, but mis-miked live tracks. Williams' "Drum Improvisation" segues into McLaughlin's fuzz-toned "Dark Prince," which does not swing in a silent way. Pastorious' theme song "Continuum" is scaled down to its essential twilight textures, while the drummer's "Para Oriente" - which later became a stable in V.S.O.P's book, and was recast as "Angel Street" - is rendered here in a funky, pre-grunge mode. The guitarist's "Are You the One, Are You the One?" previews the jam band craze. The rest of the cuts were recorded a week later in a New York studio, But the warts-and-all original sides are unmatched for their primal power. --Eugene Holley, Jr.