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Masquerade: the Dawn Years Anthology | 
| Artist: Jonesy
Label: Esoteric
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 50825
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5013929710924
ASIN: B000TWI7Y0
Release Date: September 24, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Ricochet | | • | Every Day's The Same | | • | No Alternative | | • | Heaven | | • | Mind Of The Century | | • | 1958 | | • | Pollution | | • | Ricochet | | • | Reprise | | • | Masquerade | | • | Sunset And Evening Star | | • | Preview | | • | Questions And Answers |
Disc 2
| • | Critique (With Exceptions) | | • | Duet | | • | Song | | • | Children | | • | Can You Get That Together | | • | Waltz For Yesterday | | • | Know Who Your Friends Are | | • | Growing | | • | Hard Road | | • | Jonesy |
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| Customer Reviews:
 What's in name? December 8, 2007
Rob Brook (UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ambitious, audacious, musically gifted, Jonesy were seemingly blessed with a clear run in the studio, leaving them to craft albums of originality and diversity, tapping into the veins of Gentle Giant in their restless dexterity, jump-cutting from mellotron-fuelled calm to Wagnerian thonk. Closer still is the spirit of Fripp: horn-player Alan Bown imbued their work with the modern jazz trappings of Lizard-period King Crimson, a possibly less commercially-fertile hunting ground than before but never dull. The band folded before you could blame punk: the culprit was more likely to be relative lack of commercial success, and this tended to be afforded acts with stronger A&R teams than Dawn's and with beefier names than Jonesy. Now, if they had recorded for Vertigo as Count Veridian ...?
 Inventive, early 70's prog. November 8, 2007
M. Harris (BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX United Kingdom)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
So they sounded a lot like King Crimson at first and then with Alan Bown joining on electric trumpet embraced Miles Davis circa 'on the corner' but Jonesy always were one of the criminally underrated bands and John Jones was up there with Robert Fripp for originality. No one sounds quite like him. At last the albums have been remastered (the second 'keeping up' was poorly produced) and this compilation is pretty fautless, reminding me just how good they were. My only beef is that the single 'ricochet' (probably their finest track) still fades out on the guitar solo, one of the great travesties in editing! Nevertheless each track is complex and consistently invented with lots of mellotron and guitar solo's. When Jones brother Gypsy joined the vocals were much improved and the lengthy 'can you get it together' is a momentous jam with solo's for all. What a pity the mastertapes for the fourth album are still lost because several of the tracks would give a more rounded overview. I can't fault this and even if toward the end with Bown they often went down a jazz/fusion cul-de-sac (the last album won a jazz award in the USA)there was always something interesting. Live they were excellant as well. What a shame stuff of this quality doesn't get a look in anymore.
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