Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live

Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live is a live album by Jeff Beck, released in 1977 on Epic Records.

Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live
Live album by Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group
Released	March 1977
Recorded	US tour, Summer and/or Fall 1976
Genre	Blues rock, rock
Length	44:05
Label	Epic (PE34433)
Producer	Jan Hammer
Jeff Beck chronology
Wired (1976) Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live (1977) There & Back (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Freeway Jam"	Max Middleton	7:21
2.	"Earth (Still Our Only Home)"	Jan Hammer	4:34
3.	"She's a Woman"	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	4:25
4.	"Full Moon Boogie"	Hammer, Jerry Goodman	6:07

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Darkness / Earth in Search of a Sun"	Hammer	7:52
6.	"Scatterbrain"	Middleton, Jeff Beck	7:25
7.	"Blue Wind"	Hammer	6:20
Total length:			44:05

Charts

Chart (1977)	Peak position
Australian (Kent Music Report)	67[2]

Personnel

• Jeff Beck - guitar, bass guitar, special effects

The Jan Hammer Group

• Jan Hammer - Moog, Oberheim and Freeman string symphonizer synthesizers, electric piano, timbales; lead vocal on "Earth (Still Our Only Home)"
• Tony "Thunder" Smith - drums; lead vocal on "Full Moon Boogie"
• Fernando Saunders - bass, harmony vocals; rhythm guitar on "She's A Woman"
• Steve Kindler - violin; string synthesizer on "Darkness"; rhythm guitar on "Blue Wind"

Recording information

No precise dates and locations are given for the live recordings. The tour began in June 1976 and ended in February 1977, with 117 shows performed.

A&R man Tom Werman suggested[3] that the date at the Astor Theater in Reading, PA (31 August 1976) yielded the best performances, and was going to provide the bulk of the album at the time of his involvement in the project. Beck mixed this along with other recordings at Allen Toussaint's studio in New Orleans.

Then Jan Hammer decided to mix the album himself, and did so with Dennis Weinreich at Scorpio Sound Studios in London, England.

The stereo spectrum of this album duplicates the stage set-up with guitar positioned center right, keyboards center left, violin right and drums and bass center.

References

1. Ruhlmann, William. "Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live - Jeff Beck | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 132. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
3. "The Jeff Beck Bulletin". Ainian.com. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2016.