Volume 1 [Import]

Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann Chapter Three | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 6, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Creature Music
• ASIN: B000031WTY
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,553 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Travelling Lady

2. Snakeskin Garter

3. Konekuf

4. Sometimes

5. Devil Woman

6. Time

7. One Way Glass

8. Mister You're A Batter Man Than I

9. Ai't It Sad

10. A Study In Inaccuracy

11. Where Am I Going

12. Sometimes (Mono)

13. Mother (Aka Travelling Lady Mono)

14. Devil Woman (Single)

15. A Study In Inaccuracy (Alternative Version)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Post-Rock 30 Years Too Early, March 3, 2001

By 

Mark Carlin (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Volume 1 (Audio CD)

Although in many ways dated, this completely atypical manifestation of Manfred Mann does anticipate '90s epiphanal freakouts from the likes of Spiritualized and the Verve. It's let down, I would say, by Mike Hugg's rather duff vocals (no Richard Ashcroft, or even Bobby Gillespie, he), but, like many similar records of the time, it does at least attempt to build bridges between different musics. Primary in the latter is the free jazz feeling of the horn section (arranged by Mike Gibbs), particularly the completely wigged-out alto playing of New Zealander Bernie Living, a regular on the avant-garde Brit jazz scene at the time (with Mike Westbrook and others) but who seems to have vanished completely from the early '70s onwards. Anyone know what happened to him? Reference for youth: "One Way Glass" could have come off the last Primal Scream album.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is NOT the Earth Band!, May 28, 2000

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Terry Saundry (Keysborough, Vic, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Volume 1 (Audio CD)

Out of left field in 1969 came Manfred Mann Chapter III. Totally unrelated to the pop years, this was a marriage of jazz and rock. Of course, 1969 was the time when the cross-pollination of these styles held great promise. Many artists dipped into the waters in the next few years. There was some exciting music. Eventually the bandwagon got full and collapsed under the weight of record companies forcing everyone to "fuse" and bland out.

MM Ch III lived at the "rock with brass" end of the jazz-rock spectrum. They made some fairly serious but inspired music here. Most of it is riffy and some is heavy, yet it has energy and class. Mike Hugg's vocals sound a little like Dr John when he's spooky. The version of '..Better Man..' is terrific. There was a second, slightly inferior volume that appeared on the 'prog rock' label Vertigo the next year. This may be why the Editorial Review above describes them as 'prog/classic'. I assure you, they weren't!

This is a great album but the band was commercially doomed. They were meant to come to Australia as part of a package tour with Deep Purple and Free. We went along full of anticipation but by the time they got here Mann had disbanded them and brought out the Earth Band. Oh well!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz rock at its best, January 22, 2000

By 

ayosha (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Volume 1 (Audio CD)

Manfred Mann made these Chapter Three albums (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2) before going commercial and popular again with Earth Band. The style is jazz-rock, but well written and heavy with bluesy sensitivity. No mindles free-for-all here. The quality of Lp sound is well preserved here on these CDs, I know I heard both.