Andi ChorleyLive At The Avgarde Gallery Manchester by Don Rendell With The Joe Palin Trio Featuring Guest Pete Martin, released on Spotlite Records in 1975.
London Jazz Collector wrote:
Rendell’s Space Walk album includes three compositions featured in this Avgarde session, which Rendell says are now more satisfactory interpretations. ...Rendell claims Palin and his trio had not heard the Space Walk album before. The readings are similar but the Manchester live recording, despite some rough edges, has a raw pungency which is quite attractive.
On the track Antibes, Pete Martin holds down beautiful counter-figure harmonies as Rendell leads the iconic melody. It has a live club-date feel which is forgiving of any lack of studio polish. In the studio, take 25 may have no faults, but the musicians long-robbed of spontaneity, and wanting to get down the pub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBKLvhYBXrk&list=RDUBKLvhYBXrk&start_radio=1
