Went to the Pentangle concert last week, part of their national tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of their formation. Pentangle was a superlative British folk-jazz-blues-raag group of 1967-73. The concert was superb, every one of these five musicians is transcendent and together... John Renbourn played guitar with geometric precision and a passion so contained it was as though his body had become a part of the instrument. He played sitar, too, while Bert Jansch handled banjo and several guitars and made it all look so easy - of course, it is incredibly complex. Danny Thompson and Terry Cox were on top groovy form as the prime jazzmen they are and Jacqui McShea's thousand year-old voice soared towards an invisible, yet tangible, emptiness.
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