Mo’ PENTANGLE - ‘REFLECTION’ - Live in Belgium 1972

 Opening with Danny Thompson on bass ( the master ) 

With of course Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Terry Cox - five points of light as the are described here and rightly so . . . . . . one of the main reasons I left jazz proper and thought hang on a cotton picking minute! . . . . . 

This Belgian TV special from 1972 captures the band in all its glory as they work their way through six songs from the albums Solomon's Seal, and Reflection.

found here Le Ramasseur De Mégots 

PENTANGLE - LORD FRANKLIN [Cruel Sister 1970] | jt1674

 This is just plain lovely . . . with Bert taking lead vocal and Jacqui singing harmony with backing from John Reborn of course on guitar and arranged by all three . . . . . .

timeless and staggeringly beautiful

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Pentangle - Travelling Song French TV 1969 | TWILIGHTZONE

 TWILIGHTZONE posted this yesterday and a fine piece of archive work it is too. Bert Jansch and Jacqui McShee all trying their best to keep straight faces (sic) with the rest of the great sixties folk rock band ‘Pentangle’ featured on French TV

Thanks to TWILIGHTZONE

Pentangle: The Time Has Come 1967 - 1973 (4 CD Box 2008) URBANASPIRINES

 PENTANGLE

Nice 4 disc history of the Folk Rock band par excellence featuring Danny Thompson, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn and the unique voice of Jacqui McShee (maybe not quite up there with Sandy Denny or indeed even Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior - still going incidentally but a unique voice to be sure) from Kostas over at Urbanaspirines

PENTANGLE - The Time Has Come 1967 -1973 - URBANASPIRINES

PENTANGLE LIVE - OSLO, NORWAY 1968 - Floppy Boot Stomp

 

Pentangle - LIVE in Oslo 1968 - Floppy Boot Stomp

Totally classic British Folk rock band Pentangle at their absolute peak with every member a legend now in their own right. Bert Jansch, Danny Thompson, John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee. I needed to tweak it a bit on playback for when Jacqui sings on her own ( just set to emphasise the vocals on the equaliser is all) but this is prime quality given its age

Pentangle

Croatian Viewing Festival 

The Dolphin Club 

Masonic Building 

Oslo Norway 

1968-05-30

TV Broadcast @ 320

01. Introduction---Tuning

02. The Time Has Come

03. Mirage

04. A Woman Like You

05. Turn Your Money Green

06. Hear My Call

07. Haiaitian Fight Song

08. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme

09. Bells

10. Bruton Town

11. Travelling Song

12. Pentangling

Jacqui McShee - Vocals

Bert Jansch - Guitar

John Renbourn - Guitar

Danny Thompson - Bass

Terry Cox - Drums, Percussion

PENTANGLE!

LIVE IN OSLO! 1968!!

Yes that's what I said. Didn't think I would be writing that any time soon and it astonishes me that I have written it just now but bear with me. Big O (where else?) have posted the most extraordinary set this morning from Oslo in 1968. Noe ordinarily and in my experience this would spell disaster in terms of quality and recording. Not so!
This is clearly lifted from the audio track of a TV broadcast and probably from Norwegian audio sources but is really a treat. Pentangle were truly important in terms of the development if not birth of folk/rock and the line up alone here inspires each being a exemplary player in their own right and all this with the soaring pure vocals of Jacqui McShee. It is really worth a listen

Pentangle Oslo 68

It is worth posting the intro from Big O if only to convince you of how great this truly is

They say -

Croatian Viewing Festival, The Dolphin Club, Masonic Building, Oslo, Norway; May 30, 1968 (broadcast June 7, 1968). Very good mono soundboard (likely ripped from TV broadcast).
A pristine 40 minutes’ worth of Pentangle live footage! Incredible. The thing that always impresses me about this band is how seamlessly they blend together so many different ingredients. Today, the folk-rock-jazz hybrid is a fixture on the landscape, but in 1968, there wasn’t really a map for Jansch, McShee, Thompson, Cox and Renbourn to follow. But their fearless explorations still remain pretty much unsurpassed. - doomandgloomfromthetomb
Thanks to NewWildWest for sharing the show at Dime.
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Try it you really won't be disappointed


Chris dropped by with a link to the tape of this

Pentangle live on Vine Festival