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Bert Jansch - Avocet Audio CD

A fair review of the Bert Jansch "Avocet" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bert Jansch reviews here, or go back to the Bert Jansch tabs.

Bert Jansch Band: Bert Jansch
Title: Avocet
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Release Date: 2003-10-06
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Avocet 2: Lapwing 3: Bittern 4: Kingfisher 5: Osprey 6: Kittiwake

superb instrumental album
His voice is an acquired taste, but this album is a rare instrumental jewel combining elements of folk, blues and jazz. Bert Jansch is generally regarded as one of the greatest guitarists to come out of the British folk scene. 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

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. 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 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.


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