Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father Tim Buckley's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994. In 2004, Rolling Stone listed him at number 39 on their list of greatest singers of all time.

Over the following three years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record Buckley's second album in New York City with Tom Verlaine as producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. On May 29, 1997, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in the Mississippi River when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat; his body was found on June 4.

Since his death, there have been many posthumous releases of his material, including a collection of four-track demos and studio recordings for his unfinished second album My Sweetheart the Drunk, expansions of Grace, and the Live at Sin-é EP. Chart success also came posthumously: with his cover of Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" he attained his first number one on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in March 2008 and reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart that December. Buckley and his work remain popular and are regularly featured in "greatest" lists in the music press.

Live from the Bataclan is a live EP by singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, released in October 1995 (see 1995 in music). It was recorded at the Bataclan in Paris, France on February 11, 1995.

Live from the Bataclan presents four songs from a 1995 performance in Paris. It captures the magic of an entranced, adoring audience as they listen to the vocal acrobatizing and seductive voice of Jeff Buckley. (It's also a surprisingly large crowd, considering how short a time Grace had been out.) Overall, the selections are very quiet and tender -- just voice and guitar -- but the loud tune (and only one with the band) comes first: a slightly stretched out incarnation of "Dream Brother," and a particularly throat-ripping, emotionally tortured rendition at that. Next comes a galloping 12-minute clap-along version of Van Morrison's "The Way Young Lovers Do." By the time Buckley switches over to French during his delivery of a medley of "Je N'En Connais Pas la Fin " and "Hymne a L'Amour," the crowd erupts at the end of every phrase, catching him off guard with their enthusiasm. It gets to be a bit much, and the crowd almost manages to cut the song short with their enthusiastic approval, but the evident enjoyment of all present will be shared by fans. The last selection is a nearly ten-minute version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." During it, the crowd momentarily becomes the backing choir, softly chanting "hallelujah" while Buckley takes it quieter until the song eventually dwindles out. - Joslyn Layne

This listing is for a very rare, out of print PROMO CD title - a USED / OPENED Promo CD, in Near Mint minus overall condition PRESSED and ISSUED by COLUMBIA / SONY Records of a highly collectible title, featuring -

Jeff Buckley

PROMO CD Title -

Live From The Bataclan - 3 Track Sampler

Performers Include -

The PROMO CD is from the ultra-rare series of audiophile CDs made by COLUMBIA / SONY (Out of Print).

• PROMO CD catalog # SampCD 2746
  
• PROMO CD first issued in 1995
• PROMO CD made in the UK
  
• For promotional use only - not for sale

The PROMO CD, Outer CASE and INSERTS are all in near MINT minus overall condition. The CD has no serious marks on the reflective side of the disc. The jewel case shows just some light shelf wear. Inserts are clean and crisp. In top notch collectors grade condition.

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).