Montreux Festival [Live]

Little Milton, Albert King, Chico Hamilton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Stax
• ASIN: B000000ZHK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #394,769 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2.0 out of 5 stars The 'Bought This Album' Blues, January 28, 2001

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"bluesjunkie" (Osaka, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Montreux Festival (Audio CD)

Are you cool with putting on a CD and listening to only 1 or 3 songs? If not, pass on Montreux Festival and go buy one of the many excellent CD's that are available by Albert King, Little Milton & Chico Hamilton!

The 3 Albert tracks here are outstanding - Albert in all his funky, string-bending, stage-bantering glory. But if you're buying it for the Albert tunes, you're only getting about 17 minutes of music.

Little Milton is a blues stud in his own right, but not when you can't hear his guitar. What you can hear on this disc is him screaming to the sound guys "gimme some mike!" Unfortunately, he never gets it. The drums, bass, horns, and vocals are there, but that doesn't cut it. Little Milton without the guitar work is Little Milton you can do without! If you're interested, I recommend the albums Little Milton Sings Big Blues ('66) or Grits Ain't Groceries ('69).

Chico Hamilton is an extremely talented jazz drummer and was influential on pyschedelic rockers such as Carlos Santana. Some of his music was on the bluesy side of what label-slingers call "soul jazz" and could work alongside some of Albert's stuff. In View is a good 12-minute jam of mostly drums, saxophone, and bass, but it isn't really bluesy and makes me wonder why it was chosen for inclusion on this album.

If you're already into these guys, stay away from this one. If you're not, I highly recommend all 3 of them as musicians, but go with a different album.

4.0 out of 5 stars 1974 show at Montreux, August 23, 2010

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C. Rocklein - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Montreux Festival (Audio Cassette)

This is not a long album. Little Milton takes up less than 10 minutes of it in his two songs (Let Me Down Easy, We're Gonna Make It). Chico gets a single cut, the first cut "In View" (12:20), in which he smokes - a nice opening to the show. The last 3 songs are King in fine form in this vintage 1974 show at Montreux - could have offered us more, but it's better than nothing.