This concert in Paris (part of latter-day Jazz at the Philharmonic master holdings) emanates from a better-than-decent-quality board tape complete with maddening fader moves keying up the wrong instrument in spots --most notably two choruses of rhythm guitar unintentionally drowning out everyone, plodding along while solos on -- and missing the first part of several guitar solos and intros by . But even with every song in the same maddening key of G natural, this 1972 concert nonetheless catches in good '70s form, presiding over the proceedings in typical dignified bearing. With an all-star lineup of on piano, on harmonica and on bass and on drums (along with the aforementioned substituting for on guitar), the music presented here is rock-solid, even if the key never varies. Things catch fire early on, with the band laying back when does (a fairly desultory reading of "Hoochie Coochie Man" that never really gets going) and getting hotter when he gets the itch, as he does on "County Jail," "Honey Bee," and "Lovin' Man," all boasting stinging slide solos. An interesting bonus are full-band treatments of "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and "Walking Blues." There's nothing on here that's going to make you trade in your copy of , but as a document of latter-day (especially in light of all the samey, uninspired live discs from this period that have come out), this is some pretty great stuff. ~ Cub Koda