Recommend a live album where you can hear the room

Just turned on “Another Night in Birdland” with Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan and —bam— you’re right in that space. I’d love to see your recommendations for a live album (jazz, folk, what have you) where you can really hear the room.

 

"Live In The Room" by The Furnitures.

 

Miles Davis Quintet ' Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 ' and Bill Evans Trio 'Live at the Village Vanguard 1961' come to mind.

 

Curtis Live!

 

Donny Hathaway's Live album comes to my mind:

 

B. B. King "Live At The Regal" for mine.

 

Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions

 

Hilton Ruiz - Live at Birdland:

 

Townes Van Zandt 'Live At The Old Quarter'

 

Ten Years After - Undead

Tim Buckley - Dream Letter

 

Can I make a John Cage 4'33" joke here?

 

The Velvet Underground- Live At Max's Kansas City

I bought this when I was thirteen years, a few years before I attended my first rock show. While the listener feels very much placed right in the room with the Velvet Underground, I could not understand why everyone was talking over the music. Huh?? It's the Velvet Underground, for pity's sake! Shut up!

Not long into my later concert attending career, I had learned that people will talk over any performer - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jethro Tull, Johnny Cash, Kate Bush. Keith Jarrett until he walks off stage glowering at the perpetrator.

The guy on the recording ordering Pernod and trying to score is Jim Carroll, author of The Basketball Diaries, friend of Patti Smith, and writer and performer of the song 'People Who Died' .

 

It's a set of live cuts from different concerts (I believe.) But the late great John Prine's album just titled "Live" is one of my favorites.

 

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. Raucous.

 

When you listen to this album, you're in jail.

 

B.B. King Live At Cook County Jail

 

Sam Cooke ‎– Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963

 

The GOAT.

You can hear the room and you can smell the sweat of the crowd.

 

I always got that sense from this:

 

I recently found a nm "Lee Michaels Live" double LP - never heard it, but for five bucks, I took a chance. WOW...what an awesome recording! The drums on the "drum solo" are phenomenal. Highly recommended. I didn't see any mastering clues in the dead wax, it is a A & M brown label from 1973.

 

Nice recommendations. I wanted to add that in addition to records where audience feedback is prevalent, feel free to include records where the room acoustics significantly contribute to the recorded sound.

 

Zappa, "Roxy & Elsewhere"