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Jeff Beck: Live +

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Label: Atco Records
Released: 2015.05.16
Time:
 71:32
Category: Blues-Rock
Producer(s): Jeff Beck
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jeffbeckofficial.com
Appears with: The Yardbirds, Rod Stewart
Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Loaded (J.Beck) - 2:56
[2] Morning Dew (Dobson) - 4:32
[3] You Know You Know) - 6:31
[4] Why Give It Away (Delila) - 3:40
[5] A Change Is Gonna Come) - 7:20
[6] A Day in the Life (J.Lennon/P.McCartney) - 5:01
[7] Superstition (S.Wonder) - 4:00
[8] Hammerhead (J.Beck) - 3:45
[9] Little Wing (J.Hendrix) - 3:51
[10] Big Block (J.Beck) - 5:07
[11] Where Were You (J.Beck) - 3:17
[12] Danny Boy (Traditional) - 1:34
[13] Rollin' and Tumblin' (M.Morganfield) - 6:13
[14] Going Down (J.Beck) - 5:18
[15] Tribal (J.Beck) - 3:07 *
[16] My Tiled White Floor (J.Beck) - 5:20 *
 
* - New Studio Recording

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Jeff Beck - Guitar, Arrangements, Producer

Rhonda Smith - Bass
Jonathan Joseph - Drums
Nicolas Meier - Guitar
Jimmy Hall -  Vocals
Veronica Bellin - Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals on [16]
Ruth Lorenzo: Vocals on [15]

Dave Natale - Engineer
Graham Archer - Mixing
Tal Miller - Mastering
Hugh Gilmour - Cover Design
Robert Knight - Back Cover Photo, Photography

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Jeff Beck has added a handful of concerts to his already-packed spring schedule and will release a live album in May. The album will also include two new studio tracks that will be the iconic guitarist's first new songs since 2010.

Jeff Beck Live+ will see release on May 5th via Rhino imprint Atco Records. Recorded at various venues throughout 2014, the album boasts 14 cuts from across Beck's vast career, including "Morning Dew," "Big Block," "Superstition" and Beck's cover of the Beatles' "A Day In the Life."

Live+ will also close out with two new studio tracks: "Tribal" and "My Tiled White Floor," which feature guest vocals from Ruth Lorenzo and Veronica Bellino, respectively. The two songs were described in a statement as "aggressive" and a "stark departure from the sound on his previous album," 2010's Emotion Commotion. Beck is expected to release a full LP, his 17th overall, later this year.

Beck is scheduled to return to the road for a string of previously announced solo dates beginning April 13th at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. He'll also rejoin ZZ Top at the end of the month for a handful of shows that were rescheduled when their co-headlining tour last year was cut short after ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill injured his hip. Beck will then resume his solo tour with the newly announced set of shows.

Amidst all his guitar-slinging, Beck is also writing two new books — an autobiography and a separate "signed, limited-edition" book — per a recent deal with the London-based, Genesis Publishing group. The guitarist is also at work on a new documentary, the first officially sanctioned film about his storied career.

Jon Blistein - April 9, 2015
RollingStone.com



Jeff Beck has a busy spring coming up. In addition to a handful of new dates that have just been added to his current tour, the legendary guitarist will release a new live album next month.

Jeff Beck Live+ was recorded during Beck’s 2014 tour with his band, which includes singer Jimmy Hall, bassist Rhonda Smith, drummer Jonathan Joseph and guitarist Nicolas Meier. The set spans Beck’s long career, with much focus on his instrumental interpretations of rock and R&B classics.

In addition to originals, the album, which will be released on May 5, includes covers of Sam Cooke‘s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” the Beatles‘ ”A Day in the Life,” Jimi Hendrix‘s ”Little Wing” and Stevie Wonder‘s ”Superstition,” which Beck was partially responsible for.

Two new studio recordings, “Tribal” and “My Tiled White Floor,” will also show up on Jeff Beck Live+. They mark Beck’s first new recordings since 2010′s Emotion & Commotion. Both tracks feature vocals and are said to be representative of a new album that should be released later this year. You can see the track listing for the live LP below.

Beck has also added some new tour dates to his itinerary. He’s performing shows with his group through the end of the month, when he’ll be joined by ZZ Top for eight make-up shows that were postponed last year after Top’s Dusty Hill injured his hip on the band’s tour bus. After that, Beck resumes solo shows with his band for two more weeks that will take him through almost the end of May. You can see Beck’s updated tour schedule below.

Michael Gallucci - April 9, 2015
ultimateclassicrock.com



We’ve been blessed with lots of Jeff Beck music of late, but few studio recordings. In fact, the forthcoming Live+ marks Beck’s fifth concert release since 2008 — a period that only seen a lone original album, 2010’s Emotion and Commotion.

As such, the news that this pending project will include new songs, including “Tribal,” came as no small amount of news. Hearing Jeff Beck tear into decades-old favorites like “Going Down,” finding new wrinkles, goosing them to new greatness, has its obvious allures. “Tribal” has the opportunity, however, to tell us something new about one of rock’s true instrumental visionaries, to open new places in our imagination and perhaps new ears from a different generation.

OK, that’s a lot of expectation. But it’s what naturally follows such a lengthy period without something new to chew over. The good news is, “Tribal” — this scroungy, all-edge update of the familiar Jeff Beck blues rocker — delivers in a big way. We find Beck roaming around in the wide-open spaces of a furiously grinding power trio, skittering and then barking as Veronica Bellino and Rhonda Smith create this relentless pulse on drums and bass, respectively. Ruth Lorenzo’s come-hither exclamations only add to the track’s sense of doomed abandon.

In keeping with this new music’s extended gestation period, “Tribal” apparently went through more than one iteration — including, strangely enough, a dance version — before Beck stripped it all the way back again to his knife-edge guitar and Bellino’s thunderous cadence. Building outward from there with Smith’s bass and Lorenzo’s vocal, “Tribal” became far more intriguing: Something new which grew out of his old sound. These are the same horizons where Jeff Beck once roamed with the Yardbirds, amped up on Jeff Beck Live+ (due May 19, 2015 via Atco) for a new generation.

Nick Deriso - May 12, 2015
Copyright © 2015 Something Else!



Jeff Beck Live+ is a collection of fourteen tracks recorded in concert during August of 2014 with a pair of new originals from recent studio sessions. It effectively whets the appetite for the new studio record reportedly in the works for some months now even as it stands as a fitting companion piece to the DVD Live in Tokyo (Eagle Vision, 2014).

Beck's is a perfectly pragmatic approach to to reinvent the panoply of styles he's traversed since the late Sixties by utilizing this current lineup of musicians, all with distinct instrumental personalities of their own. All these live recordings derive from appearances in the United States within three weeks and thus have a certain immediacy and continuity even as "Beck's Bolero," from Truth (Epic, 1968) gives way to "Superstition" from Beck Bogert & Appice (Epic, 1973) , while "Big Block" comes from Guitar Shop (Epic, 1989). And the grand cover of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" is a modern day interpretation from the George Martin produced homage In My Life (MCA, 1998).

The sumptuous recorded sound captures the thunderous funk drummer Jonathan Joseph and bassist Rhonda Smith generate, reminding Jeff Beck is the sole purveyor of jazz-rock fusion with a truly earthy aspect of his playing. This current alignment not only reflects that aspect of their leader's persona, but also the often dizzying unpredictability with which he plays: they can keep up with Beck as surely on the hellbent "Goin' Down" as on "Danny Boy" where the iconic guitarist applies a delicate touch by lingering on notes and letting silence surround them. The logic with which Jeff Beck plays is all his own, his idiosyncratic technical skill certainly not the same formal approach guitarist Nicholas Meier commands, so the two guitarists creates a vivid relief within the peer tributes, to John McLaughlin for "You Know You Know" and Jimi Hendrix on "Little Wing." (And the acoustic textures Meier provides reaffirm the wisdom of his place in the band).

Jeff Beck hasn't worked with many vocalists since he began recording under his own name upon leaving the Yardbirds and none so often as Jimmy Hall. The once and future founding member, frontman and lead vocalist of Dixie rockers Wet Willie first collaborated with the iconoclastic Brit on Flash (Epic, 1985) and has, not surprisingly, toured with him at various intervals since: Hall has a gutsy vocal approach bereft of affect and so full of feeling, the intense impact of his phrasing compares favorably with Beck's own on "Morning Dew" as well as "Rollin' and Tumblin.'" And Hall's confident showmanship adds immeasurably to this rendition of "A Change Is Gonna Come."

There's no detail apart from musician and composer credits to the two new tracks here which is perhaps as it should be, as they seem like nothing so much as an afterthought particularly after hearing all the concert tracks in sequence. The feverish "Tribal" hearkens directly to Jeff (Epic, 2003) while the cryptically-title "My White tiled Floor" is more atmosphere than fire. Appearing as the live sequence gathers steam, "Why Give It Away" is also introduced as a 'new one,' incorporating some traces of hip-hop and blues courtesy Hall's harp playing.

With hints continuing about a full-kength album of new material yet to be released, Jeff Beck+ has something of a holding pattern about it, but 2015 is nevertheless shaping up to be quite a year for Jeff Beck. This title precedes a "Special Edition" of full-audio from Live at Ronnie Scott's (Eagle, 2008), so the man's aficionados and the novice alike have wider opportunity than ever to bear witness to his unorthodox genius.

Rating 4.5 out of 5

Doug Collette - May 22, 2015
© 2015 All About Jazz



Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck already has a busy year coming, with an autobiography/documentary/book in the works, and now he’ll also release a new album on May 5. Titled Jeff Beck Live +, the collection includes recordings from Beck’s 2014 tour with ZZ Top.

From the press release:

The 14 live performances on JEFF BECK LIVE+ were recorded at multiple venues in 2014 and feature Beck backed by his band: vocalist Jimmy Hall, bassist Rhonda Smith, drummer Jonathan Joseph and guitarist Nicolas Meier. The quintet explored Beck’s vast catalog—which stretches across five decades—with performances of “Morning Dew” (from Truth, 1968), “Superstition” (from Beck, Bogert, Appice, 1973), “Big Block” (from Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop, 1989), as well as two Grammy-winning tracks: his cover of the Beatles’ “A Day In The Life” and “Hammerhead.”

The album will also feature two brand new studio recordings, Tribal (with guest vocalist Ruth Lorenzo) and My Tiled White Floor (with guest vocalist Veronica Bellino). These two tracks are Beck’s first creative output since 2010 and are being called a ‘stark departure’ of the sound on his most recent album.

Beck’s next studio album is also reportedly still in the works, with the press release indicating it is still expected to be out sometime this year.

Adrian Garro
rockcellarmagazine.com



It has been said the worth of an artist is measured by the company he keeps. Seldom has that credo been shattered with more bravado than with Jeff Beck.

At age 70, he remains a guitarist so wondrously and radically impulsive that it's tough to imagine any band being able to keep up with him. That's certainly true of the personnel backing him up on Live +, a new concert recording cut during a North American tour last August.

The players are all muscular in terms of chops and drive, especially formerly Wet Willie vocalist Jimmy Hall, who helps Beck assemble a repertoire that stretches back as far as his 1968 debut album Truth. But throughout Live +, Beck operates with a level of instinct that leaves his bandmates in the dust.

Take the boogie grinder Going Down, which Beck originally cut on the Jeff Beck Group album in 1972. Hall sings like a hurricane throughout the tune, a testament to his ageless voice but perhaps not his sense of dynamics. While the full tilt tone of the singing eventually becomes static, Beck treats the tune as a lab experiment, playing with the piece's blues-based rhythm by bending funky power chords and screaming punctuation in a way that more or less ignores Hall altogether.

The same holds true for a wild cover of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's You Know You Know. Composed over four decades ago by John McLaughlin as an ascending jam held together by a mantra-like melody, the piece becomes a playground for Beck. Bassist Rhonda Smith and Jonathan Joseph are generously afforded extended solos full of technical prowess but little sense of invention. Still, Beck has a field day by adding outer space hiccups and wiry bits of animation over the rhythm guitar of Nicolas Meier, luxuriating in the spaces McLaughlin wrote into the tune far more than the indulgences of his drummer and bassist.

The techno drive behind two new studio tracks, Tribal and My Tiled White Floor, are similarly unspectacular, yet Beck plays like a demon on both. But on the contemplative Where Were You and, of all things, a reading of Danny Boy, Beck downshifts to offer playing full of subtle grace and color.

That Beck's band plays a failing game of catch-up is almost beside the point. Few outfits outside of the Jan Hammer Group in the mid-1970s have proved a capable foil for the guitarist. What impresses most about Live + (and what ultimately recommends it) is the musicianship of an instrumentalist flexing not technique but instinct. Beck may be 70, but the playfulness he expresses on the recording sounds youthful and fearless.

Walter Tunis
www.kentucky.com



Am 15. Mai 2015 erscheint das Album "Live +" von Jeff Beck. Auch zwei gänzlich neue Studio-Stücke werden darauf zu hören sein. Die restlichen Aufnahmen entstanden auf der 2014er Tour, die der Brite gemeinsam mit ZZ Top absolvierte.

Am 15. Mai 2015 ist es soweit: Dann erscheint Jeff Becks neues Album „Live +“. Die Aufnahmen sind auf der 2014er Tour des Musikers entstanden – der Brite war gemeinsam mit ZZ Top auf Welttournee. Neben den Live-Stücken, die die gesamte Karriere Becks umspannen, gibt es mit „Tribal“ und „My Tiled White Floor“ zwei neue Songs. Es sind die ersten Studio-Ergebnisse seit „Emotion & Commotion“ (2010).

Jeff Beck begann seine Karriere Mitte der Sechziger Jahre, nachdem er auf eine Empfehlung von Jimmy Page Eric Clapton bei The Yardbirds ersetzte. Er ist auf einigen der größten Hits der Band zu hören, etwa auf „Heart Full Of Soul“, „Shapes Of Things“ und „Over Under Sideways Down“. Seine Solo-Karriere nahm mit „Blow By Blow“ (1975) ihren Anfang.

Kai Wichelmann - 14. April 2015
RollingStone.de



Als Jeff Beck im vergangenen Jahr mit ZZ Top auf eine großangelegte US-Tour ging, erfüllte er alle Erwartungen, die man an einen der besten Gitarristen der Welt stellen kann. Seine Performances waren hypnotisierend und seine sprichwörtliche Gitarrengymnastik einfach perfekt. Mit »Live +« können sich die Fans nun die Highlights dieser umjubelten Konzerten auf die eigene Anlage holen und bekommen mit »Triba«l und »My Tiled White Floor« noch zwei brandneue Studioaufnahmen dazu – die ersten Aufnahmen seit seinem Album »Emotion & Commotion« (2010), das mit zwei Grammys ausgezeichnet wurde: Best Pop Instrumental Performance für den Song »Nessun Dorma« und Best Rock Instrumental Performance für »Hammerhead«.

Jeff Beck »Live +« enthält über eine Stunde packender Live-Performances, die in mehreren unterschiedlichen Venues während der ZZ Top / Jeff Beck-Doppelpaket-Tour mitgeschnitten wurden, und erscheint über Atco / Rhino Records als CD und zum Download. Beck und seine Band, bestehend aus Sänger Jimmy Hall, Bassistin Rhonda Smith, Drummer Jonathan Joseph und Gitarrist Nicolas Meier, spielten sich quer durch Becks umfangreiches Repertoire, das satte fünf Jahrzehnte umfasst. Darunter findet man Klassiker wie »Morning Dew« (aus dem Album Truth von 1968), »Superstition« (aus Beck, Bogert, Appice, 1973) und »Big Block« (aus Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop, 1989) sowie zwei Grammy-prämierte Songs bzw. Versionen: das Beatles-Cover »A Day In The Life« und »Hammerhead«.
Auch als brillanter Interpret von Cover-Songs genießt Jeff Beck einen herausragenden Ruf, und die Live-Aufnahmen überzeugen auch hier: Das Traditional Danny Boy, Jimi Hendrix‘ Little Wing und Sam Cookes »A Change Is Gonna Come« entwickeln gerade in der Live-Präsentation eine mitreißende Ausstrahlung.

Die beiden neuen Studiotracks, »Tribal« und »My Tiled White Floor«, für die Beck die Sängerinnen Ruth Lorenzo bzw. Veronica Bellino ins Studio holte, überzeugen durch aggressiven Rock, mit dem Beck sich einmal mehr als unermüdlich Suchender beweist und zeigt, dass er sich seit »Emotion & Commotion« mal wieder ein gutes Stück weiterentwickelt hat. Beide Songs machen großen Appetit auf Jeff Becks 17. Studio-Album, das voraussichtlich im Laufe dieses Jahres erscheinen wird.

JPC.de
 

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