Live At Montreux is a live album and DVD by the Average White Band.
It was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1977.
Funk Live Albums
I find something very appealing about funk music and the way it can lift your spirits and make you want to move.
Funk music began in the mid to late sixties as James Brown started to experiment more with rhythms based around riffs. Sly Stone and George Clinton linked it to the vocal soul groups and then took it to the rock audience.
In the early seventies, funk was a dominant force as soul moved into more into lover man territory with Al Green and Marvin Gaye but then in the late seventies, disco emerged and provided a bridge between soul and funk. It sold a lot of records and funk groups started to commercialise their sound for mass appeal and lost the whatever made funk special.
To help you to find the best funk live albums, I have a readers poll for funk fans to take part in and recommend the live funk albums they like best.
Live funk albums include:
Average White Band – Person To Person 1975
Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Live In Louisville 1978
Brand New Heavies – Live in London 2009
James Brown – Love Peace Power 1971
Cameo – Nasty, Live & Funky 1996
Commodores – Commodores Live 1977
Earth Wind & Fire – Gratitude 1975
Earth Wind & Fire – Alive In 75 1975
Funkadelic – Live Meadowbrook 1971
Maze – Live In New Orleans 1980
Ohio Players – Jam 1977
Parliament – Live P-Funk Earth Tour 1977
P Funk Allstars – Live At The Beverly Theatre in Hollywood 1983
Prince – One Nite Alone 2002
Sly & The Family Stone – The Woodstock Experience 1969
Live At Montreux is a live album and DVD by the Average White Band.
It was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1977.
Live On The Test is a live compilation album of the appearances of the Average White Band on the BBC’s television programme, the Old Grey Whistle Test.
The majority of the recordings came from an AWB special from 8/2/1977
Soul & The City is a live album by Scottish funk and R&B group, the Average White Band.
It was recorded at BB King’s club in New York City in 2006.
Life On Planet Groove is a live album by Maceo Parker.
It was recorded at the Stadtgarten in Cologne in Germany in 1992.
Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68 is a live album by James Brown.
It was recorded at Dallas Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Florida on August 26, 1968. It was released thirty years later in August 1998.
Live On Planet Earth is a live album by The Neville Brothers .
It was recorded on their 1993 world tour released in 1994.
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Live is a live album by The Isley Brothers.
It was recorded in 1993.
Greatest Hits Live is a live album by Earth Wind & Fire .
It was recorded at April 20, 1995 and released in October 1996. It was also sold as Plugged In and Live.
Revolution Of The Mind Live At The Apollo Volume III is a live album by James Brown and was recorded at the Apollo Theater in New York on July 24-26, 1971.
As the name suggests, this is the third live album at the Apollo after the 1962 and 1967 albums. You may see these referred to as 1963 and 1968 but that was the year of release and for live albums, it is the year of recording that matters most.
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Sex Machine is a “live album” by James Brown and the JBs.
This is a bit of a cheat according to Wikipedia although it contradicts itself.
The first album of the double vinyl album was recorded in the studio with crowd noises added to it to simulate a live performance. Most of the second album was recorded live in Atlanta Georgia but again more “live effects” were added in the studio.
However on the same Wiki page, those “studio” tracks are attributed to concerts in Cincinnati in 1969 and 1970.
By this stage James Brown had moved from soul and r&b to funk.