Avocet [IMPORT] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Bert Jansch

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Castle
• ASIN: B0000AM77H
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,821 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
First time on CD for 1979 album, remastered from the original tapes. 'Avocet' is a wholly instrumental album, it features Pentangle bassist Danny Thompson. Six tracks. Castle. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime Instrumental, November 12, 2003

By	Chris Holmes "busker" (Corfu, Greece) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

God bless Castle Music for *finally* bringing this wondrous album out as a CD, just as only He knows why it took so long for this 1979 tour de force to appear.

I actually had an early pressing handed to me by the Chrysalis label's stalwarts in Soho's Nellie Dean pub and Bert's honoured scrawling in return for a round of Newcastle Browns and Tony S-S's usual gigantic gin.

I carried it with me for 15 years, finally leaving it in a Hong Kong fishing village with the most literate karateka it's been my nervous pleasure to befriend.

It's highly unusual Bert and utterly typical: not a single leathery vocal, just exquisite guitar with Martin Jenkins' fiddle and the incomparable Danny Thompson on bass.

Colin Harper's sleevenotes are among the best I've read and the feast of photos and Janschiana just run the cup over.

Six tracks: Avocet, Lapwing, Bittern, Kingfisher, Osprey, and Kittiwake (a cliff-nesting gull).

No greater or more convincing courtesy can there be than to keep ones own inadequate blatherings short and simply hail this jewel (of which many copies have been bought for friends' ecstatic delight) as a crucial piece in the Jansch jigsaw puzzle. Buy it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars superb instrumental album, October 17, 2006

By	A. Pearson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bert Jansch is generally regarded as one of the greatest guitarists to come out of the British folk scene. His voice is an acquired taste, but this album is a rare instrumental jewel combining elements of folk, blues and jazz. I consider it to be the high point of his career and my personal favorite. It's a reflective and quiet piece that rewards repeated listening. A definitive work of art.