Jeff Beck Group [Import, Original recording remastered]

Jeff Beck | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 15, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony Japan
• ASIN: B000CPGWCI
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,897 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ice Cream Cakes

2. Glad All Over

3. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

4. Sugar Cane

5. I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You

6. Going Down

7. I Got to Have a Song

8. Highways

9. Definitely Maybe

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Album........., March 15, 2007

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Bob Hagemier "Bob Hagemier" (Salinas, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jeff Beck Group (Audio CD)

This is a great album.......
Recorded in Memphis and produced by Steve Cropper, it set the stage for Jeff's entrance into the Mahavishnu inspired era in which he continues today. Few albums have been underscored cornerstone gems (Boz Scaggs' first album with Duane Allman comes to mind) that would probably track as high, if not higher, if released today than when they were originally issued.
Great material and performers, played with with accomplished integrity.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beck Transitions to Fusion, June 8, 2007

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Michael S. Goodrich - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jeff Beck Group (Audio CD)

On what is sometimes called "The Orange Album", Jeff Beck is captured at a special time of his music somewhere between coming out of conventional rock/blues and going into more of a fusion motif he would go on to explore for most of the mid-seventies. This album is one of my favorites of the early 70s period, and Beck is here in somewhat rare form; not playing conventional blues, but hinting more at progressive elements in rock and fusion. That said, the album does have some rockish R&B such as the Dylan cover "Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You", a revved up and sophisticated cover of "I've Got to Have a Song", and an outlandish boogie version of Nix's "Going Down". There are a few odds and ends such as "Glad All Over" and "Sugar Cane - which is not quite a reggae piece. The rest of the album features some wondrous progressive playing such as "Ice Cream Cakes" - a terrific cross of prog-like rock and fusion featuring some of Beck's most intriguing chops and some wonderful electric piano by Max Middleton all in a jazzy vain backed by pulsating rockish bass and Cozy Powell's drums. "Highways" has yet more prog-rock feel and some of Becks most tempered yet exciting chops all capped off by more soulful fusion electric piano from Middleton. "Definitely Maybe" is one of Becks most unique composition's: masterfully done here with a sophisticated feel, it is almost a cross between a ballad and a lament and is entirely infectious. This album occupies a unique era (my favorite) in Beck's stylistic sojourn; only the preceding album "Rough and Ready" is anything like it in style. Four and a half stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gotta love good music!, December 22, 2007

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M. McMillion "new world puppet" (Bryant, AR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jeff Beck Group (Audio CD)

I had this album when it came out, actually my brother had it and I grew up listening to whatever he had so...Led Zepplin, Yes...all the good stuff from back then. This album was no exception. They are all good musicians and even though there's not much 'technically challenging' stuff on here, it is still SO great to listen to! To sing along with and groove with the music. I hadn't heard it in 20+ years and it brought back SO many great memories. Just a great bunch of songs!