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Minstrel in the Gallery (1975) is an album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 by British band Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
. It is the ninth album by the band, released in September 1975.

Ian Anderson's lyrics and subject matter show an introspective and cynical air, possibly the byproduct of Anderson's recent divorce from first wife Jennie Franks
Jennie Franks

Jennie Franks is an England photographer, actress, and playwright. She may be best known as Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson 's first wife, from 1970 to 1974....
 and the pressures of touring, coupled with the frustrations of writing for and recording the album in Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo is one of Monaco's various administrative areas, sometimes erroneously believed to be a town or the country's capital. The official capital is Monaco-Ville and covers all quarters of the territory....
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Minstrel in the Gallery (1975) is an album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 by British band Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
. It is the ninth album by the band, released in September 1975.

Ian Anderson's lyrics and subject matter show an introspective and cynical air, possibly the byproduct of Anderson's recent divorce from first wife Jennie Franks
Jennie Franks

Jennie Franks is an England photographer, actress, and playwright. She may be best known as Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson 's first wife, from 1970 to 1974....
 and the pressures of touring, coupled with the frustrations of writing for and recording the album in Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo is one of Monaco's various administrative areas, sometimes erroneously believed to be a town or the country's capital. The official capital is Monaco-Ville and covers all quarters of the territory....
. The title refers to the use of a minstrel's gallery in the great hall
Great hall

A great hall was the main room of a royal palace, a nobleman's castle or a large manor house in the Middle Ages, and in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries....
 of castle
Castle

A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a residence of a monarch or noble and commands a specific defensive territor...
s or manor house
Manor house

A manor house or fortified manor-house is a country house, which has historically formed the administrative centre of a manor , the lowest unit of territorial organization in the feudal system....
s. Stylistically the album is varied. The songs "Minstrel In The Gallery", "Black Satin Dancer" are hard-rock. The track "One White Duck / 010 = Nothing At All" contains two acoustic songs, the first of which also features string quartet; the second is stripped-down, with just vocals and acoustic guitar. In the songs "Cold Wind to Valhalla", "Requiem" and "Baker St. Muse" the string quartet is featured prominently alongside the rock band.

Five of the seven songs on the album feature intros, consisting of either speech or count-offs (the exceptions being "Black Satin Dancer" and "Grace").

This album was remaster
Remaster

Remaster is a word marketed mostly in the digital audio age, although the remastering process has existed since recording began. The measure of its success depends on: 1....
ed with five additional bonus tracks
Hidden track

In the field of Sound recording and reproduction, a hidden track is a piece of music which has been placed on a CD, Compact Cassette, Gramophone record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener....
 in November 2002, including incomplete live-in-the-studio renditions of "Minstrel In The Gallery" and "Cold Wind to Valhalla", some tracks that appeared only on maxi-singles ("Pan Dance", "March The Mad Scientist") and "Summerday Sands" which was the B-side of the "Minstrel In The Gallery" single

Track listing


Side one

  1. "Minstrel in the Gallery" – 8:13
  2. "Cold Wind to Valhalla" – 4:19
  3. "Black Satin Dancer" – 6:52
  4. "Requiem" – 3:45

Side two

  1. "One White Duck / 010 = Nothing At All" – 4:37
  2. "Baker St. Muse"1 – 16:39
  3. "Grace" – 0:37


1"Baker St. Muse" is a suite consisting of five pieces:
  1. "Baker St. Muse"
  2. "The Pig-Me and the Whore"
  3. "Nice Little Tune"
  4. "Crash-Barrier Waltzer"
  5. "Mother England Reverie"


Bonus tracks

The remastered CD added bonus tracks (which had been on the 20 Years of Jethro Tull
20 Years of Jethro Tull

20 Years of Jethro Tull is a boxed set which spans the first twenty years of Jethro Tull . It was issued onto five LP album: Radio Archives, Rare Tracks, Flawed Gems, Other Sides of Tull, and The Essential Tull....
 box-set) and extensive liner notes:
  1. "Summerday Sands" – 3:44
  2. "March the Mad Scientist" – 1:48
  3. "Pan Dance" – 3:25
  4. "Minstrel in the Gallery — Live" – 2:11
  5. "Cold Wind to Valhalla — Live" – 1:32


Personnel

  • Ian Anderson - flute
    Flute

    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge....
    , acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Barriemore Barlow
    Barriemore Barlow

    Barriemore Barlow is best known as the drummer and percussionist for the rock band, Jethro Tull , from May 1971 to June 1980.Christened Barry, the 'Barriemore' was an affectation to suit the eccentric image of Jethro Tull ....
     - drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
    , percussion
    Percussion instrument

    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
  • Martin Barre
    Martin Barre

    Martin Lancelot Barre is an England rock music musician.Barre has been the guitarist for Rock music Musical ensemble Jethro Tull since 1969....
     - electric guitar
    Electric guitar

    An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
    s
  • John Evan
    John Evan

    John Evan played Keyboard instrument for Jethro Tull from April 1970, to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London.He changed his name when his first band , The Blades changed their name to The John Evan Band....
     - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument

    A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
  • Jeffrey Hammond
    Jeffrey Hammond

    Jeffrey Hammond was a bass guitar player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull .Hammond adopted the name "Hammond-Hammond" as a joke, since both his father's name and mother's maiden name were the same....
     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  • David Palmer
    Dee Palmer

    Dee Palmer is a United Kingdom arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock and roll group Jethro Tull . Palmer is a transwoman who was known as David Palmer for many years, including her stint with Jethro Tull....
     - orchestral arrangements


Charts


  • Peaked at #7 on the Billboard album chart
    Billboard 200

    The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....


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(bonus tracks
Hidden track

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)
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