British group Jethro Tull may well deserve more recognition than it ever received. This changing club around singer, flutist, guitarist and songwriter Ian Anderson has been active since the late 1960s and single-handedly managed to link blues and British folk rock with prog rock. An exciting and influential sound, if only because every band that picks up the flute today is immediately compared,
… praising or disdainfully, with Jethro Tull. But the recognition that contemporaries like Pink Floyd, Yes or Genesis did receive was never received by Anderson's band. The four DVDs Around The World Live won't change that, if only because with more than six hours of material, three versions of Aqualung and four versions of Locomotive Breath, it offers an overkill of material. This is for the loyal fans who, after the many Jethro Tull live DVDs over the years, can't get enough. It never sounds or looks bad, but it also rarely surpasses the better DVDs like Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 or Live At Madison Square Garden 1978. (MR)more
