Best Live Recordings:Performance and recording


I tend to like "live" recordings if done right...but these are often hit and miss...any suggestions?...open to all genres...for those fans of Portishead...live in NYC is a great show and an excellent recording to boot...also...Live at Leeds is considered by many to be the ultimate live rock recording...however...I was not that impressed with the latest remaster...somebody mentioned BB king live at the Regal on another post...is this really that good?
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In the good old days an artist's live recordings almost never sounded as good as his or her studio records. Brand X Livestock was a big exception. Some live instrumental rock recordings have succeeded in ratcheting up the ante a few notches. Massacre/Meltdown, Jonas Hellborg/Personae, Zony Mash/Live in Seattle and Harriet Tubman/Prototype come to mind.
In recent years, there's been an explosion of stunningly realistic live jazz recordings in the racks... a few highly deluxe examples:
Bluiett Baritone Nation/Libation...
Yannick Rieu/Sweet Geom
Lounge Lizards/Live in Berlin (Vol.1&2)
Charlie Haden/Montreal Tapes (all are excellent)
Mark Helias/Fictionary
Tony Oxley/Floating Phantoms
Rich Halley/Live at Beanbenders
Ellery Eskelin/One Great Day
Archie Shepp-Roswell Rudd/Live at the Village Vanguard
Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra Live at Sweet Basil

Koko Taylor and her Blues Machine Live from Chicago- An Audience with The Queen
I had the chance to listen and compare carefully the 1977 and the 1997 LP's versions of Jazz at the Pawnshop.
There are significant differencies between them. I think I prefer the original Swedish pressing than the 1997 german one. I would like to have other advises about it. I also try to find more informations about what did exactly the sound engineer Wilfried Zahn when remastering this new issue.
Oh, there have been some truly great ones mentioned. Just a few more:
Commander Cody - "Live from Armadillo Headquarters"
J. Giels Band - "Live - Full House"
Neil Diamond - "Hot August Night" (only ND worth owning)
Marlena Shaw - "Tokyo Live"
Stan Getz - "Gold"
Art Pepper - anything live is dynamite
Bob Seeger - "Live Bullet"
Weather Report - "8:30"
Yes - Yessongs
Guess Who - "Live at the Paramount" (A must for GW lovers - the CD version has bonus tracks but the LP sounds better, though rare)
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