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Blow By Blow [Original recording remastered]

Jeff BeckAudio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (124 customer reviews)

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Jeff Beck isn’t your typical guitar legend. His goal, in fact, is to make you forget that he plays guitar.

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  • Audio CD (March 27, 2001)
  • Original Release Date: 1975
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B00005AREQ
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (124 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,753 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. You Know What I Mean
2. She's A Woman
3. Constipated Duck
4. AIR Blower
5. Scatterbrain
6. Cause We've Ended As Lovers
7. Thelonious
8. Freeway Jam
9. Diamond Dust

Editorial Reviews

Blow by Blow served as a new creative peak for Beck and is, to date, his most commercially successful release. Offering a one-two punch of ingenious production and imaginative soloing, the wonderfully unpredictable guitar genius meshes stinging jazz-rock with string arrangements and energetic rhythm for You Know What I Mean; Constipated Duck; Air Blower; Scatterbrain ; Stevie Wonder's Cause We've Ended as Lovers; Thelonius; Freeway Jam; Diamond Dust , and a clever arrangement of Lennon and McCartney's She's a Woman .

Customer Reviews

If you've never listened to Jeff Beck, but think you like great guitar, buy this album. John Walker  |  22 reviewers made a similar statement
One of the best albums ever recorded in any genre. Peter D. Guglietta  |  21 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
69 of 75 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A guitarist's view September 19, 2004
Format:Audio CD
I've been a professional guitarist and music teacher for over two and a half decades. I listen to guitar music day in and day out, ranging in style from Luis de Milan (1536) to Leo Brouwer and Alan Holdsworth. It isn't difficult to observe that almost all music that has survived the test of time has had something valid to say: some of it expresses well the particular fashion/taste of the period; some successfully pushes the existing musical boundaries; and some is just uniquely personal to its creator.

As a musician Jeff Beck belongs mostly within the last of the preceding three groups. Examination of his output suggests it would be hard to argue that he created any new genre, but whenever he experimented in a new field he always sounded unmistakably true to his own unique musical identity. I also believe that a creative performing musician can receive no greater compliment.

The hallmark of Beck's style is melodic fearlessness. This boldness sets him apart musically from perhaps 'superior' technical and 'harmonically informed' peers, especially those of the so-called 'improvisational' based jazz scene. Beck's playing is instantly recognisable and is almost devoid of cliche. Jeff Beck only ever sounds like Jeff Beck. On the occassion that he ever employs a tired phrase of (say) Chuck Berry's, it is in such a manner or in such a place as to turn it on its head or throw new light upon it.

To those wondering whether to add this CD to their collection I recommend that you bear in mind Duke Ellington's words - "There are only two kinds of music: good music and bad music", because this CD belongs unquestionably to the first category. All instrumental, it contains a variety of styles - including ballad, reggae, funk, and rock - read the other reviews for the details. And finally, please don't ever pretend to have any inkling of what Jeff Beck is about, or what he is capable of, without being familiar with this particular album.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Blow by Blow June 13, 2003
Format:Audio CD
The first album someone interested in hearing Jeff Beck's musical genious should get (yes, pass up any greatest hits or best of selections). It's funk, fusion, jazz - with healthy doses of rock and blues. The great thing about the band on this album is that they're all very good at their respective instruments. Of course we all know that Beck is going to be great, but it's surprising when fellow band members can equal the equivalent of his talent on their own instruments. This is, in my opinion, Beck's best album - and in saying that I mean one that showcases his versatility and intelligent playing. All these songs sound like jams, but they don't have the rawness or 'rough areas' of jams - wow.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A peerless recording April 21, 2000
By Erica
Format:Audio CD
Few people have used the guitar as voice so effectively as Jeff Beck. And few recordings in any genre have so beautifully melded guitar with instrumentation. Although Blow By Blow has weak and dated moments, its standout tracks are so startling that I keep referring back to it as a kind of touch-point...to my own past, to an eternal expectation of how really transcendant great music can be. Three tracks have not dated, will never date: "Because We've Ended as Lovers", "Scatterbrain" and "Diamond Dust". Each has a distinctive, difficult, complicated mood. Lovers weeps. Scatterbrain has a manic, brilliant energy and wonderful interplay with a lush, erotic backing string arrangement. But my favorite Jeff Beck song will always be Diamond Dust. Its mood is brooding, edgy, and yet elegiac. The opening bars introduce an uneasy melody against a counterpoint of piano. From there the melody twists around, punctuated by electric piano and the faint, brilliantly arranged strings. It builds and fades, sometimes bright, sometimes aching, and when it ends, you feel as if you need to think a while, maybe take a walk. It's one of the most complicated and beautiful songs in modern music and it amazes and hurts me that some people will die never having heard it.

Jeff Beck's fusion forays aren't for everyone. But there is no denying his musicianship, nor his intimate virtuosity with mood and subtle coloring. This recording has been on my shelves for twenty-five years and, God willing, it will be there for another fifty.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars good ol beck!
cant go wrong with the jazzy feel of this album! it was and is now a masterpiece of guitar licks and amazing effects.
Published 2 days ago by loucarisma
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Jazz Fusion
This is up there with any great traditional jazz fusion artist of the mid-70's. The most impressive thing for me is that Jeff Beck continually reinvents his sound and is expert at... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Bert Caruthers
5.0 out of 5 stars A Multi-Genre Guitar Attack
Unquestionably Jeff Beck is one of the most amazing guitar virtuosos of the century, and the platinum "Blow By Blow" is a truly stunning body of work. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Robert I. Hedges
1.0 out of 5 stars Remasters plague attacks again!!!
I`ve been a long fan of this album and I have been listening to it since 1991. My CD was starting to get old, so I decided it was time to substitute it for a new one. Read more
Published 4 months ago by The cimmerian
3.0 out of 5 stars Just okay for me.
I started hearing about this album as a kid.I never got too excited about an album of instrumentals. What does a kid know about songs with no singing? Not much! Read more
Published 4 months ago by edward h
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes,Yes,Yes
cd great shape. overly satifyed,this one is my favorite Jeff Beck albums. Thnaks for giving joy and a clean product.
Published 4 months ago by ROC
5.0 out of 5 stars still splendid
As noted by so many others, this album revitalized Beck's career. As dazzling as his guitar playing was, and as good a band as he had supporting him on this recording, the most... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Donald E. Gilliland
3.0 out of 5 stars Dated
I'm a Jeff Beck fan, so maybe my expectations were too high. But it very much has a Kenny G vibe to it, and that's not a good thing. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Abraham Aamidor
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Guitar work
Jeff Beck is an amazing artist and knows how to fuse Rock and Jazz into some very listenable songs. This is my favorite album by him.
Published 7 months ago by The Nose
5.0 out of 5 stars A Guitar Fusion Classic
Jeff Beck reinvents himself on this masterful piece of musician artistry. With production help from George Martin, along with the triad of Max Middleton on keys(previously from the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Thirty-Ought Six
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