HATFIELD AND THE NORTH LIVE T.V. 1990

One one hand, it is great to have a live performance from this excellent, but short lived band. On the other hand, to me it doesn't really sound like Hatfield And The North without keyboardist Dave Stewart. Replacement keyboardist Sophia Domancich is talented, but leans a bit too far to the jazz side, and takes the rest of the band with her. Her style is more like a somewhat less nimble Chick Corea.

For those expecting mostly live versions of the old Hatfield material, only four of the nine songs, Share It, Underdub, Halfway Between Heaven And Earth and It Didn't Matter Anyway, all from The Rotter's Club, fullfill this, and of the new songs, onlyy Going For A Song sounds like the original material. The rest is all straight jazz fusion. Not bad fusion, certainly listenable and competant, but not what you might expect from this band.