Avocet

Avocet

Track Listings

1. Avocet

2. Lapwing

3. Bittern

4. Kingfisher

5. Osprey

6. Kittiwake

Tracks:

Avocet
Lapwing
Bittern
Kingfisher
Osprey
Kittiwake

Album Description

First time on CD for 1979 album, remastered from the original tapes. 'Avocet' is a wholly instrumental album, it features Pentangle bassist Danny Thompson. Six tracks. Castle. 2003.

Album Details

Originally Released in the UK in 1979, this is the First Time the Album Has Been Released on CD, Hence it is the Most Desired Jansch Album to Appear on CD. "Avocet" is a Wholly Instrumental Album which also features Ex-pentangle Bass Man Danny Thompson.

Customer Reviews:

superb instrumental album.......2006-10-17

Bert Jansch is generally regarded as one of the greatest guitarists to come out of the British folk scene. His voice is an acquired taste, but this album is a rare instrumental jewel combining elements of folk, blues and jazz. I consider it to be the high point of his career and my personal favorite. It's a reflective and quiet piece that rewards repeated listening. A definitive work of art.

Sublime Instrumental.......2003-11-13

God bless Castle Music for *finally* bringing this wondrous album out as a CD, just as only He knows why it took so long for this 1979 tour de force to appear.

I actually had an early pressing handed to me by the Chrysalis label's stalwarts in Soho's Nellie Dean pub and Bert's honoured scrawling in return for a round of Newcastle Browns and Tony S-S's usual gigantic gin.

I carried it with me for 15 years, finally leaving it in a Hong Kong fishing village with the most literate karateka it's been my nervous pleasure to befriend.

It's highly unusual Bert and utterly typical: not a single leathery vocal, just exquisite guitar with Martin Jenkins' fiddle and the incomparable Danny Thompson on bass.

Colin Harper's sleevenotes are among the best I've read and the feast of photos and Janschiana just run the cup over.

Six tracks: Avocet, Lapwing, Bittern, Kingfisher, Osprey, and Kittiwake (a cliff-nesting gull).

No greater or more convincing courtesy can there be than to keep ones own inadequate blatherings short and simply hail this jewel (of which many copies have been bought for friends' ecstatic delight) as a crucial piece in the Jansch jigsaw puzzle. Buy it.

Hand It Down
Average customer rating:

NEW ENGLAND FIDDLE MUSIC AT ITS BEST

Hand It Down
Laurie Andres, Cathie Whitesides Bob McQuillen
Manufacturer: Avocet
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music
General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00000HXIQ
Release Date: 1997-08-01

Tracks:

Father Charlie's/Frankie's Tune
Tony's Quadrille/Priscilla's Jig
Anne's Waltz
John Krumm's Hornpipe/Tolman's Reel
Rappaport's Jig/Dick Nevell's Jig
Bannerman's Quadrille/Mike's March
Argo's Reel/Tracey Sherry's Reel
Lydia's Waltz
Kathy's Jig/Lilac Lady
Dale's Hornpipe/Segal's Flight/Corey's Reel
Brynne Marie
Roger's Reel/Culhane's Hornpipe
lia's Jig/Hank's Mother/It's C-C-Cold Out!
Olde Tyme Quadrille/J.B. Milne
Sandy's Waltz/Cathie's Waltz

Album Description

Hand It Down is a collection of New England contra dance tunes composed by Bob McQuillen, on piano, with Laurie Andres on accordion, Cathie Whitesides on fiddle, Liz Dreisbach on clarinet, Michael Kerry on tenor banjo and Warren Argo on 5-string banjo. The tunes are high-spirited jigs, reels, hornpipes and waltzes composed over 30 years of music-making. Each is named for a friend or memorable moment.

Customer Reviews:

NEW ENGLAND FIDDLE MUSIC AT ITS BEST.......2000-07-13

On a recent trip to Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp outside Nashville I was struck at the sparcity of true New England fiddle music among the huge variety of great fiddle music played there. There is a distinct New England style which is both marvelous to listen to and to dance to. This recording reflects the best of that traditional barn dance music. I'd like to see Amazon also carry McQuillen's Old New England CD which has more of the same great tunes.

Average customer rating:

Instrumental Magic

Avocet
Bert Jansch
Manufacturer: Castle Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000DIJOD
Release Date: 2003-11-04

Tracks:

Avocet
Lapwing
Bittern
Kingfisher
Osprey
Kittiwake

Customer Reviews:

Instrumental Magic.......2003-12-17

God bless Castle Music for *finally* bringing this wondrous album out on CD, just as only He knows why it took so long for this 1979 tour de force to appear.

I actually had one of the first vinyls handed to me by the Charisma label stalwarts in Soho's Nellie Dean pub as Bert scrawled his moniker across the artistic cover in return for a Newcastle Brown.

It went round the world with me for 15 years, finally finding a good home in a Hong Kong fishing village with the most literate karateka it's been my nervous pleasure to befriend.

Highly unusual Bert, this is, and at the same time utterly typical - up there with his best works around the inspired 'Nicola' period. No leathery vocals this time, just exquisite guitar (and some tasteful tinkling of the ivories, no less), Martin Jenkins' fiddle and the incomparable Danny Thompson on bass.

Colin Harper's sleevenotes are among the best I've read and the feast of photos and Janschiana complete the feast.

Six tracks: Avocet, Lapwing, Bittern, Kingfisher, Osprey, and Kittiwake (a cliff-nesting gull).

Tracks:

Avocet
Lapwing
Bittern
Kingfisher
Osprey
Kittiwake

Customer Reviews:

Finally..........2003-12-19

Finally we have the CD release of one of Bert Jansch's best, but now unfortunately least known, albums. Originally available in the U.S. in 1979, it had first been released the year before in Denmark, probably because the powers-that-be at the time thought it too much of a shift in style from his earlier work. Indeed it is that; apart from being Jansch's only entirely instrumental album, it crosses well out of the folk realm and into the world of jazz and chamber music. Parts of it remind me of Pentangle, but it is also reminiscent of present players such as the Tin Hat Trio, or even some of the more sprightly "New Age" programming one might hear on the public radio series "Echoes."

But the folk feel is still there, even in the long featured piece 'Avocet' (all the tracks on the album have birds' names), a cleverly constructed and beautifully performed suite based on the theme to the traditional song 'The Cuckoo.' The intimate instrumentation is key in this: Jansch plays guitar throughout, and is joined by Martin Jenkins on fiddle, mandocello or flute, and by double-bassist extraordinaire Danny Thompson.

And yes, this *is* a program featuring a good deal of out-front virtuoso guitar play (and bass play too--Thompson has been one of the very top session players on his instrument for over forty years).

The masters to this album disappeared for years, but now the copyright to the material has been returned to Bert, and we, the faithful and the about-to-be-faithful, finally come out winners. Now, can someone please do something about "L.A. Turnaround" and "A Rare Conundrum"??

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