`Baker Street Muse`

After passable, over long distances very good recipe for success "War Child" followed in 1975 with "Minstrel in the Gallery" adequately a musical quality successor as the eighth studio album. Musically the group is moving as expected between medieval folk and progressive rock, some with more aggressive, driving the bass and guitar lines. Technically effect was mixed at the console even hörspiel like passages in the songs, without the limits of kitsch to exceed only in unnecessary manner as Jethro Tull did in previous works.

Individual songs is emphasized müsig or completely unnecessary, since most of the songs already belong to classics of the band, and one of the prog rock rollercoaster rides with folky impacts exists with "Baker Street Muse". The quality of the songs can be kept konsant forty-five minutes and the poor sound of the old first pressing has been replaced by a clear and dynamic, contemporary remaster sound and numerous bonus tracks. Guitar and drums have now rather space, can unfold and not sound needlessly mixed together, sometimes even covering ground and vuliminös in sound.

Thus most of the classics of genre formative seventies plates of Jethro Tull with old familiar sounds and effektechnischer support of medieval sounds and sharp riffs. "Minstrel in the Gallery" is an album with no dropouts become seamlessly must be seen within the early successes of the band.

Conclusion: Dramatic klangverbesserter classic Tull. 5 Stars!

Ian Anderson - vocals / Flute
Martin Barre - Electric Guitar
John Evan - Piano / Organ
Barriemore Barlow - Drums
Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond - E-Bass
David Palmer - Strings