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Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live
Live album by
Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group
ReleasedMarch 1977
RecordedUS tour, Summer and/or Fall 1976
GenreBlues rock, rock, Jazz fusion
Length44:31
LabelEpic (PE34433)
ProducerJan Hammer
Jeff Beck chronology
Wired
(1976) 		Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live
(1977) 		There & Back
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live is a live album by Jeff Beck, released in 1977 on Epic Records.

Recording

No precise dates and locations are given for the live recordings. The tour began in June 1976 and ended in February 1977, with 117 shows performed.

A&R man Tom Werman suggested[2] that the date at the Astor Theater in Reading, PA (31 August 1976) yielded the best performances, and was going to provide the bulk of the album at the time of his involvement in the project. Beck mixed this along with other recordings at Allen Toussaint's studio in New Orleans.

Then Jan Hammer decided to mix the album himself, and did so with Dennis Weinreich at Scorpio Sound Studios in London, England.

The stereo spectrum of this album duplicates the stage set-up with guitar positioned center right, keyboards center left, violin right and drums and bass center.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Freeway Jam"Max Middleton7:21
2."Earth (Still Our Only Home)"Jan Hammer4:34
3."She's a Woman"John Lennon, Paul McCartney4:25
4."Full Moon Boogie"Hammer, Jerry Goodman6:07
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Darkness/Earth in Search of a Sun"Hammer7:52
6."Scatterbrain"Middleton, Jeff Beck7:25
7."Blue Wind"Hammer6:20
Total length:44:31

Charts

Chart (1977) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3] 67

Personnel

The Jan Hammer Group

References

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live - Jeff Beck | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
  2. ^ "The Jeff Beck Bulletin". Ainian.com. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 132. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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