Live Adventures Of Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper [Live]

Michael Bloomfield, Al Kooper | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 11, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002AAN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,343 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Every track is amazing, but I want more, November 19, 2003

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Redgecko (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Adventures Of Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper (Audio CD)

Great music, every track is great, but I want more. Two demerits to Columbia for not remastering this masterpiece and adding the full recording of I Wonder Who and other improvements. All they did on the CD transfer was copy the LP to CD! And, for 3 full nights of playing, this is a pathetic offering, a total of only 85 minutes of music on 2 CDs. Boooo!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just as great as its brother Super Session..., August 22, 2004

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Dan (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Adventures Of Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper (Audio CD)

I simply love this music, Super Session is amazing, and this is just as good. Its bluesy, it's jazzy at times, and its just great jamming. Just something about this music is just inspiring. Every song is good. The first disc is definitely stronger than the second disk, even though there is some really great jamming on the second disk. I just find its easier to get into the first one, as a lot of the songs are classic covers (Feelin' Groovy, The Weight, Green Onions). Her Holy Modal Highness is a great sort of sped-up version of the like song on Super Session, with a great bass solo. The rest is history.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So Where's The Rest of the Show?, August 27, 2000

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BluesDuke "A sacred cow is worth but one thin... (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live Adventures Of Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper (Audio CD)

I docked this one a star a) because, considering Columbia Legacy's remarkable record of unearthing completion in resurrecting its past masterworks, this set from these performers certainly deserved it, considering the reputation the Bloomfield/Kooper "Super Session" concerts had garnered; and, b) because they STILL didn't repair the premature fadeaway of "I Wonder Who," which drops down and out of earshot right in the middle of one of Mike Bloomfield's most soulful solos of the set. But you still have to love both the shimmering highs and the chutzpah which ran through the set - and chutzpah is what you need to make an instrumental version of "The Weight" which comes across as Booker T. and the M.G.s meet the T-Bones. Not to mention, speaking of Booker T. and the M.G.s, a version of "Green Onions" which comes as close as either Bloomfield or Kooper would ever come to heavy metal without cutting the lyric guts from the blues which nourished the two - with special kudos to drummer Skip Prokop, whose wide-and-deep skin tuning and attack all but beat Carmine Appice at his own game (not that THAT was all too difficult) while cutting a very weighty groove. On the other hand, "Mary Ann" is a textbook exercise in blues without slash-and-burn - Bloomfield more or less sneaks his lines out of his guitar, even when the quartet kicks up a hot boogie midway through and in the finale, with some exquisite tonal shifting; Kooper punches out his accompaniment as though a sharp soul rhythm guitarist; Prokop and bassist John Kahn kind of urge the two along with subtle rolling rhythms. And guest Elvin Bishop (on "No More Lonely Nights", on a night when Bloomfield's insomnia had got the better of him at last) fights an exquisite battle with Kooper to keep the blues groove flowing despite the deadline, not to mention turning in one of his loveliest and most gripping guitar turns. So when can we expect the complete Bloomfield/Kooper "Live Adventures" at last, like with the full turns of Steve Miller, Carlos Santana, and Bishop?