Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
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Artist: Jethro TullEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Minstrel In The Gallery
- Cold Wind To Valhalla
- Black Satin Dancer
- Requiem
- One White Duck/O10=Nothing At All
- Baker St. Muse: Pig-Me And The Whore/Nice Little Tune/Crush-Barrier Waltzer/Mother England Reverie
- Grace
- Summerdays Sands
- March The Mad Scientist
- Pan Dance
- Minstrel In The Gallery (Live)
- Cold Wind To Valhalla (Live)
Free Music Notes for Minstrel in the Gallery
Free Music Review: A fine mix of progressive rock, folk and hard rock
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a nice release from 1975 that essentially established the proggy folk rock/hard rock blend that would characterize many of their subsequent albums. Surprisingly, a near-epic is included on Minstrel in the Gallery (the four-part, 16 minute long Baker St. Muse suite). This is surprising in the sense that following the lambasting of the prog epic A Passion Play, the group turned around and released the comparatively lighter album War Child.
Musically, Minstrel in the Gallery includes a nice mixture of progressive rock, early English folk music, folk rock and hard rock. The quieter passages played on acoustic instruments nicely leaven the thunderous, proggier sections. There are some great performances by all of the players and drummer Barriemore Barlow is in especially fine form throughout. This would be the last album with bassist Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, who was replaced by the fantastic John Glascock.
This remastered effort is pretty nice and reproduces the LP fairly accurately...well, based upon what little I remember of my old LP from a billion years ago. The sound quality is pretty good overall (even on the bonus live tracks). Speaking of which, I thought the bonus tracks were very nice, although I find myself "hard-wired" to stop listening when Grace ends.
All in all, this is a great album that nicely merges prog, folk and rock together and is recommended along with similar albums including Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978).
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24-bit digitally remastered reissue of 1975 album with 5 added bonus tracks Summerday Sands', 'March The Mad Scientist', 'Pan Dance', 'Minstrel In The Gallery' (live) & 'Cold Wind To Valhalla' (live). Capitol. 2002.Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Tull Classic! While the Influences of Pre-Elizabethan English folk music abound, make no mistake, this is a complex hard rock record that pretty much coalesces all past Tull foibles into a recording formula that succeeds artistically and aesthetically. One cut (Baker St. Muse) is held to 17 minutes (unlike the side long tracks found on "Thick as a Brick"), While "Cold Wind to Valhalla" and "Requiem" are two of the sweetest songs JT ever recorded. This album marked the end of the Tull classical period, as events surrounding them would bring them back to the here and now for their next album....
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