Bert Jansch - Lapwing - Bittern - King fisher - Osprey - Gold finch.

Avocet - Part 2.

Berth Jansch; guitar, piano.
Martin Jenkins: mandocello, violin & flute.
Danny Thompson: bass.

AVOCET is the 1979 release of guitarist Bert Jansch's instrumental recording featuring "Lapwing" and "Kingfisher."

The jazz side of Jansch's music is very strong. Mandocellist Martin Jenkins takes front stage on this album, along with Jansch. ~ Chip Renner

'Avocet' is a wholly instrumental album, it features Pentangle bassist Danny Thompson.

Recorded at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark in February 1978. Includes liner notes by Colin Harper.

Personnel: Bert Jansch (vocals, guitar, piano); Martin Jenkins (mandocello, mandolin, violin, flute). Danny Thompson, bass.,

Recording : Sweet Silence Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark (02/1978).


Herbert "Bert" Jansch (3 November 1943 -- 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.

Jansch was a leading figure in the British folk music revival of the 1960s, touring folk clubs and recording several solo albums, as well as collaborating with other musicians such as John Renbourn and Anne Briggs. In 1968, he joined the band Pentangle, touring and recording with them until their break-up in 1972. He then took a few years' break from music, returning in the late 1970s to work on a series of projects with other musicians. He joined a reformed Pentangle in the early 1980s and remained with them as they evolved through various changes of personnel until 1995. Until his death, Jansch continued to work as a solo artist.

Jansch's work influenced such artists as Al Stewart, Paul Simon, Johnny Marr, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Bernard Butler, Jimmy Page, Nick Drake, Graham Coxon, Donovan, Neil Young, Fleet Foxes, Devendra Banhart and Neil Halstead.

Jansch received two Lifetime Achievement Awards at the BBC Folk Awards: one, in 2001, for his solo achievements and the other, in 2007, as a member of Pentangle.

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