Soft Machine Legacy: Live At The New Morning Paris (CD Set)

 

Sound: B-     Music: B-

 

 

After several DVD-Video releases from the New Morning Paris series, we have our first CD version of one of the concerts from Inakustik, a major import name in music concerts.  In this case, we never received the DVD version of Soft Machine Legacy live, especially with this concert.  The ten long, and often slow (making them longer) tracks needed two CDs and they are:

 

1)     Ash

2)     Seven For Lee

3)     1212

4)     Baker’s Treat

5)     Has Riff

6)     Kings & Queens

7)     Sideburn

8)     Two Down

9)     Kite Runner

10)  Strange Comfort

 

 

These are original composition by the band members and unless you like your laidback Jazz this slow, you will not enjoy this very much.  I hoped it would pick up at some point, but it is one of the most boring such concerts of many such we have heard around here in a while.  They have talent, but simply are not for everyone.

 

Making it more difficult is the rather limited and somewhat compressed PCM 2.0 16bit/44.1kHz Stereo sound, which is not up to the high standards of the DTS DVDs in this series by a longshot.  Considering this was taped December 12^th, 2005, that is really bad.  For diehard Jazz fans only!

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo