Metropolis [Original recording remastered, Import]

Mike Westbrook | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B00000JTBB
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #380,014 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Part 1 [Collective Improvisation]

2. Part 2 [Solos]

3. Part 3 [Collective Improvisation]

4. Part 4 [Solos]

5. Part 5 [Collective Improvisation]

6. Part 6 [Solos]

7. Part 7 [Solos]

8. Part 8 [Collective Improvisation]

9. Part 9 (Solo)

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of original 1971 progressive jazz rock album, originally issued on RCA's Neon imprint. Features some of the finest musicians of the day, including Kenny Wheeler, Harold Beckett, Henry Lowther, Paul Rutherford, Mike Osborne, Ray Warleigh, Alan Skidmore, Gary Boyle & John Marshall, plus Norma Winstone on vocals. The album is a 53:51 long nine-part suite that scans as nine tracks & has been remastered from the original master tapes. Also features the original cover art & additional sleeve notes. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wait For A Proper CD Reissue, Folks!, March 3, 2001

By 

Mark Carlin (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Metropolis (Audio CD)

Alas, what a disappointment. After 20 years' familiarity with my increasingly scratched antique vinyl version of this Brit jazz-rock classic, I was looking forward to having a pristine and cleaned-up version on CD. But goodness knows in which river the master tapes have been lying for the last 30 years - the sound warbles almost completely throughout the CD, and there is wow and flutter with pitch variation. Apparently Beat Goes On Records have promised to try to find a better source to master this album from in future. It's a pity, because in its proper form this is a masterpiece of jazz-rock fusion - or, more accurately, collision! - everything that "Septober Energy" attempted to be but didn't quite succeed (even though many of the same musicians play on it), and would without question have received 5 stars from me under any other circumstances. Try to hunt out the original RCA Neon vinyl if you can.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Improved remastering, November 1, 2004

By 

Scriveyn (Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Metropolis (Audio CD)

The record has been newly remastered by BGO Records and you get now the really fabulous music in the sound quality it deserves!

BGO have done a great job and commendably have exchanged my flawed erly copy for free.

A must buy now!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wait For A Proper CD Reissue, Folks!, March 3, 2001

By 

Mark Carlin (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Metropolis (Audio CD)

Alas, what a disappointment. After 20 years' familiarity with my increasingly scratched antique vinyl version of this Brit jazz-rock classic, I was looking forward to having a pristine and cleaned-up version on CD. But goodness knows in which river the master tapes have been lying for the last 30 years - the sound warbles almost completely throughout the CD, and there is wow and flutter with pitch variation. Apparently Beat Goes On Records have promised to try to find a better source to master this album from in future. It's a pity, because in its proper form this is a masterpiece of jazz-rock fusion - or, more accurately, collision! - everything that "Septober Energy" attempted to be but didn't quite succeed (even though many of the same musicians play on it), and would without question have received 5 stars from me under any other circumstances. Try to hunt out the original RCA Neon vinyl if you can.