Tune in for this week's 'Live From The Vault' featuring 'YesSongs' by Yes & for tonight's 'Get The Led Out Live' along with the latest The Improv Cafe, The Coach McVay Show, Downtown Rams & NPR Music Live are available On-Demand! Listen now at Live Jam 107!
2CD set Their first live album, originally issued as a lavish triple LP in 1974. Features the classic lineup!
Opening with a few bars of Stravinsky to set the adoring crowd on its feet, this once-three-LP set is Yes at their finest. This was, after all, probably the most mainstream act that had even provisional "prog rock" status, and their tunes show it. While "Heart of the Sunrise" may be one of the more modestly titled Yes songs (compare it with "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" or "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)" or even "Total Mass Retain"), it also bears marks of the band playing at its most frenetic pace around Jon Anderson's soaring near-falsetto. Rick Wakeman's grand synthesizer flashes are more than textural, finding visual meshes aplenty with Roger Dean's cryptic cover art--most of which is shrunken or absent on this two-CD reissue. When Yessongs was cut, Marshall stacks were in their heyday, and Yes happily engaged in harmonic and melodic excessiveness as well as carefully planned layers of complexity. "Roundabout" was the band's biggest hit to this point. It appears here faithfully reproduced. As for the rest, it's entertaining in a 1970s way--full of light shows, staged visuals, and more. It took a few years for prog rock to dwindle and for punk-colored art rock to swerve toward songs about buildings and food. On Yessongs, the band was peaking, singing songs with far grander purpose (Siberia, the Apocalypse, etc.). By any account, this is one of the classic live albums of its generation, and as the soundtrack to the hip 1998 film Buffalo 66 hinted, at least one manic Yes song ("Heart of the Sunrise") passed muster for drama in the 1990s.
Tuck & Patti were Live In Concert from the Newport Folk 2018 on NPR Live.
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The jazz duo opened its set with "Heaven Right Here," one of the early '90s tunes that had Tuck and Patti on the charts and all over jazz radio.
NPR Music Live In Concert from the Newport Jazz Festival in 2017 and in 2018 featuring a new live performance played in its' entirety every week include Drive By Truckers, Brandi Carlile, Joseph, Julia Jacklin, John Paul White, Tuck & Patti, Darlingside, The Lone Bellow, Bermuda Triangle, Khruangbin, Pinegrove, Margaret Glaspy, Marlon Williams, John Prine And Friends, Big Thief, Brent Cobb, Shovels & Rope, The Wild Reeds, Hurray For The Riff Raffs
Tune for the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane live at Carnegie Hall at the Improv Cafe and listen now On-Demand. Hosted by Tom Reese (The Reese Project) at Live Jam 107!
J.B. Long sitdown with Rams head coach Sean McVay as they discuss the Sunday night loss to the Chicago Bears. Coach McVay gives credit to the Bears and discusses what he learned from the loss.
They also discuss the play of pass rusher Dante Fowler and gear up for the defending Super Bowl Champs Eagles this weekend.
Jake Ellenbogen and Joe Curley give their thoughts on the Rams and Bears abysmal game on Sunday Night Football.
The two also talk long-term and the recent Rams news.
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall is featured at the Improv cafe tomorrow night. Hosted by Tom Reese (The Reese Project)
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The jazz duo opened its set with "Heaven Right Here," one of the early '90s tunes that had Tuck and Patti on the charts and all over jazz radio.
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