Live at the Jazz Café is a live album released in 1998 by ProjeKct One, a sub-group of King Crimson

King Crimson

King Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history...

. Live at the Jazz Café was released as part of the 1999 box set The ProjeKcts

The ProjeKcts

The ProjeKcts is a 1999 box set of four live albums recorded between 1997 and 1999 by four side projects of the band King Crimson, known as ProjeKcts.-Overview:...

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Overview

The original material for the album was recorded live from 1 to 4 December 1997, during a four-night tour of improvisations at the famous Jazz Café in Camden

Camden Town

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, London

London

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, England

England

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. (The same sessions provided material for the later Jazz Café Suite

Jazz Café Suite

Jazz Café Suite is a live album by ProjeKct One, one of the four sub-groups known as ProjeKcts into which the band King Crimson 'fraKctalised' from 1997 to 1999. The album was released on Discipline Global Mobile records in 2003....

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Track listing

The tracks' titles naming scheme is "night, set, improv" http://et.stok.ca/digests/578.txt: for instance, "3 i 2" was recorded on the 3rd concert night (which is also December 3), on the first set, and was its 2nd improvisation.

1. "4 i 1" – 6:11
2. "4 ii 1" – 3:29
3. "1 ii 2" – 4:27
4. "4 ii 4" – 7:28
5. "2 ii 3" – 4:27
6. "3 i 2" – 8:14
7. "3 ii 2" – 6:32
8. "2 ii 4" – 4:27
9. "4 i 3" – 4:32

All titles written by Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

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, Bill Bruford

Bill Bruford

William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...

, Tony Levin

Tony Levin

Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....

, Trey Gunn

Trey Gunn

Trey Gunn is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.-Biography:...

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Personnel

• Tony Levin
  Tony Levin
  Tony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....
  
   - bass
  Bass (instrument)
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  , Stick
  Didgeridoo
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  , synth
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  
• Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn
  Trey Gunn is an American musician, known for his membership in progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.-Biography:...
  
   - Warr guitar
• Bill Bruford
  Bill Bruford
  William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• Ronan Chris Murphy - mixing, editing

External links

• User comments of The ProjeKcts at Elephant-Talk