Blue Nights [Import, Live]

David Torn, Tony Levin, Bill Bruford | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Discipline Gm UK
• ASIN: B00004RD8S
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,726 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Piercing Glances

2. Etude Revisited

3. Palace Of Pearls

4. Original Sin

5. Dentures Of The Gods

6. Deeper Blue

7. Cobalt Canyons

8. Fin De Siecle

9. Picnic On Vesuvius

10. Cerulean Sea

11. Bent Taqasim

12. Torn Drum Bass

13. Cracking The Midnight Glass

14. Presidents Day

15. 3 Minutes Of Pure Entertainment

16. Outer Blue

Editorial Reviews

UK version with one bonus track, 'Outer Blue' (Remix by Splattercell) and $12 cheaper. It features the thundering rhythm section of King Crimson fame, Bill Bruford and Tony Levin.Recorded live in Japan and the USA in 1998. They expand on their studio albu

Customer Reviews

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Standard for Fusion, September 25, 2000

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T. Brown (Fayetteville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Nights (Audio CD)

On this record, these guys find new ways to expand the consciousness of the listener. The combination of the poly-metric blending of time signitures between the bass/stick and drums, the weird and sometimes eerie Tornian soundscapes, and the lonely Miles inspired trumpet takes fusion somewhere I've never heard it go. While the studio record they did was interesting, this record is visceral and alive and at times totally breathtaking. I want to be in this band.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars King Crimson Projekts meets Miles Davis, November 5, 2004

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kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Nights (Audio CD)

This is a 2 CD set taken from live club shows in 1998. The sound is very good and there is very little audience noise. It sounds like the audiences were very small, like the concerts were done in half filled clubs. The first disc is 48 minutes and the second disc is 58 minutes with the addition of a bonus track from the original release. The packaging is fairly cheap looking.

This is jazz fusion. Some of it is discordant, especially the opening track. Mostly the music is lively, entertaining but very rough and hard. It is along the lines of what King Crimson was doing at the time, only more accessible. With Chris Botti playing on trumpet, much of the music sounds like a harder version of Miles Davis.

This band came together right after King Crimson was in it's "Projecks" and "Thrak" stages. Both Bill Bruford and Tony Levin were in King Crimson at the time. King Crimson was a sextet at the time and doing all kinds of experimentation with different combinations of the members of the band. They put out a number of CD's where any "C" in the title was replaced with a "K". The music was hard and metallic. Much of it was pure noise with members of the group just going off in any direction. Some of it was very interesting.

I think that Bruford and Levin take all that experimentation with King Crimson and evolve it into something much better. David Torn on guitar sounds like Robert Fripp under control. And the trumpet really adds a new dimension to the music.

Levin is always a very interesting artist. Another album to check out is his Double Espresso, which is more traditional fusion and new wave jazz. I think his best album (besides the 1980's King Crimson material) is Levin, Bozzio, Stevens Blacklight Syndrome. That is a CD to search out and cherish.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars live of B.L.U.E, June 21, 2000

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Park Chan Ung (Seoul South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Nights (Audio CD)

So to speak, it's a double live version of B.L.U.E. Including some other & a bonus track, of course. As for me, I'm fond of studio version more rather than this live one. But it's great that some tracks from studio are extended for live play. & some tracks are improvs or jams. Higly recommended for guys & girls who like each or at least one of Bill Bruford,Tony Levin and David Torn. These three good performers gathered once before at Torn's excellent work "Cloud about mercury". Though I haven't experienced any other Chris Botti, he is good especially at "Original Sin". By the way, Torn doesn't play impressively in this project to me.