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elisabeth kontomanou: alain jean-marie & elisabeth kontomanou quartet, 21 apr 1988, paris, france *and* elisabeth kontomanou quartet 25 july 2007, vannes, france

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Dec 032022
 

these were both shared by ‘cosmikd’, years apart.  i was going to upload the 1988 show and then listened to the 2007 show & just had to go for a “twofer”.  of the two, i prefer the second (2007) simply because it has more elisabeth kontomanou and was mostly written by her.

alain jean-marie & elisabeth kontomanou quartet
studio 105, maison de la radio, paris, france
april 21, 1988

alain jean-marie (piano)
elisabeth kontomanou (vocals)
jean bardy (bass)
sangoma everett (drums)

01 search for peace (mccoy tyner) 7:33
02 deluge (wayne shorter) 9:30
03 this is new (kurt weill, ira gershwin) 7:01
04 ev’ry time we say goodbye (cole porter) / my ideal (newell chase, leo robin, richard a. whiting) 4:22
05 falling grace (steve swallow) 5:27
06 very early (bill evans) 7:35
07 italian sorrow (alain jean-marie) 2:55
08 straight, no chaser (thelonious monk) 6:44

tt 51:07

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broadcast : les légendes du jazz, france musique, sept 19, 2020

elisabeth kontomanou quartet
festival jazz à vannes
jardin de limur, vannes, france
25 july 2007

elisabeth kontomanou (vocals)
manu codjia (guitar)
thomas bramerie (double bass)
donald kontomanou (drums)

1. talk 1:05
2. sunny (bobby hebb) 14:30
3. where i’m coming from (kontomanou) 8:29
4. the abuse (kontomanou) 4:30
5. black angel (kontomanou) 9:23
6. back to my groove (kontomanou) 9:01

46:58

fm > wav (wavelab) > flac (frontend level 8)
jazz sur le vif, france musique, 1 oct 2007
talk by xavier prévost

sample – 1988:  t06 very early 256k.mp3
sample – 2007:  t03 where i’m coming from 256k.mp3
downloads:  AlainJeanMarie_ElisabethKontomanou_1988-04-21_ParisFrance.zip and ElisabethKontomanou_2007-07-25_VannesFrance.zip

image:  from the ‘jazz in langourla’ site, photo of elisabeth kontomanou aken at her 11-aug-2007 performance at the jazz in langourla festival.  used without permission.

sal mosca – 12 jan 2007, bimhuis, amsterdam, netherlands

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Nov 182022
 

there’s not too much piano jazz up here, but occasionally one really strikes my fancy, like this one, recorded just 6 months before sal mosca died at age 80.

sal mosca
bimhuis
amsterdam, netherlands
12 jan 2007

sal mosca, piano

01 gone with the wind
02 just one of those things
03 i’ve got rhythm
04 on the sunny side of the street
05 i don’t stand a ghost of a chance
06 the song is you > night and day
07 caravan
08 i cover the waterfront
09 how high the moon
10 radio outro (in dutch)

total time: 42:04

source: radio
lineage: cdr trade > wav > trader’s little helper (flac 8, align on sector boundaries)

sample: t06 the song is you – night and day 256k.mp3
download: SalMosca_2007-01-12_Bimhuis_AmsterdamNL.zip

photo:  copied from discogs.org.  it has a copyright symbol, but i’ve no idea who owns that.  used without permission.

courtney pine quartet – 4 july 1987, rocca brancaleone, ravenna, italy

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Nov 112022
 

the very beginning to this isn’t great (and the cut-in doesn’t help!), so i nearly just moved on to something else, but fortunately stuck with it.  i might just spend the rest of today listening to other courtney pine recordings!  looking for photos from that period turned up very little except for this rather nice jazz photo blog, with some excellent shots of courtney pine from 1988 (but in the end, i went with a photo of the tape’s j-sleeve… so mid-80s!).

courtney pine quartet
ravenna jazz 1987
rocca brancaleone
ravenna, italy
4 july 1987

courtney pine, tenor sax, soprano sax
jo bashorun, piano
gary crosby, bass
mark mondesir, drums

01) unknown title [cut in] (9:48)
02) unknown title (12:03)
03) unknown title [cut in and with tape flip] (12:34)
04) unknown title (12:38)
05) unknown title [tape end] (14:33)

tt 61′ 38″

lineage: audience recording > tape sony hf-es60 (1st gen) > unknown tape recorder
then denon drw-850 (no dolby) > sony pcm-d50 (rec level 5,5) (48khz-16bit) > nero wave editor 11

quality: b+

sample: Courtney Pine 1987-07-04 Ravenna t03 Unknown title 256k
download: CourtneyPine_1987-07-04_RoccaBrancaleone_RavennaItaly.zip

photo:  shot of the tape j-sleeve from the original recording, shared along with the music by the uploader.

olivier ker ourio quintet – 20 feb 2021, studio 104, paris, france

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Nov 052022
 

here’s some harmonica jazz.  like (i suppose) many people, you say “harmonica” and i think of blue ‘harp’.  silly me!  but i do love the harmonica, be it blues or jazz…  such a lovely warm sound.

anyway, recently back from madrid where i saw andrea motis (who was fantastic, and sang more / played trumpet less than i expected).  then last weekend, down at the cork jazz fest, i saw sélène saint-aimé, in a show that still leaves me a bit speechless (& that’s a good thing in this case, in case you’re unsure).   so jazz-wise, i’m in jolly mood, and hope you’re the same!

completely unrelated to any of that, i recommend a series that i’m listening to (some bits again, some for the first time), the imc’s blind date jazz series, which you can see through their site or on the series youtube playlist.  check it out.

olivier ker ourio quintet
studio 104, maison de la radio
paris, france
(concert without audience)
february 20, 2021

olivier ker ourio (harmonicas)
grégory privat (piano, fender rhodes)
gino chantoiseau (bass)
arnaud dolmen (drums)
inor sotolongo (percussion)

01 a380 8:35
02 singular insularity 9:16
03 intro 1:16
04 largue pa tienbo 9:02
05 payanké 15:47
06 intro 0:26
07 unknow 8:31

52:53

https://www.kerourio.com/   [that link is broken]

fm > yamaha tx-330 > audacity (wav) > wavelab > flac (level 8, sector-align)
broadcast : jazz club, france musique, direct live
cosmikd

updates:
nov-2022: changed the filename for track 5 to “05 payanke.flac” (changing the final letter from “é” to “e”). updated md5 file for changed name. also added an ffp file.

sample: t04 largue pa tienbo 256k.mp3
download: OlivierKerOurio_2021-02-20_Studio104_ParisFrance.zip

photo:  one of the photos from the discogs page for olivier ker ourio.

ellen andrea wang – 18 mar 2017, moments, bremen, germany

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Oct 262022
 

i was out of town for 2 weeks and had a number of shows to listen to and maybe share up here.  but no:  it turned out that i couldn’t access the files.  so, nothing this month until now!  maybe we’ll have a little flurry of activity over the this week (hopefully! i’m out of town this weekend as well).

ellen andrea wang
moments
bremen, germany
2017-03-18

ellen andrea wang – double bass, vocal
andreas ulvo – piano
erland dahlen – drums

01 heart beat / band intro
02 fjord ferry
03 sacred
04 high 5
05 perfect danger
06 away
07 holding on
08 du hoie fryd for rene sjæle
09 air
10 follow me
11 call me
12 be mine

min 82:41

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bremen 2
sounds in concert
2017-09-23

sample: 01 heart beat 256k.mp3
download: Ellen Andrea Wang 2017-03-18 Moments, Bremen Germany.zip

photo:  youtube screenshot of a 2017 performance in oslo with the same lineup.

rss problem

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Oct 012022
 

following a recent question, i’ve found that the rss feed is not working.  so if you’ve not been getting the feed from feedburner… that’s why.  hopefully, i’ve just fixed that.  if not, well, we’ll just see, won’t we?

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anna maria jopek & leszek mozdzer – 20 apr 2018, die glocke, bremen, germany

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Sep 302022
 

i’ve been listening to a number of shows by leszek mozdzer, and this was my favorite of them.  anna maria jopek has such a wonderful voice and piotr nazaruk’s various instruments add depth to the music (i couldn’t find a link for him, though).

anna maria jopek & leszek mozdzer
jazzahead!
glocke
bremen, germany
2018-04-20

anna maria jopek (voc)
leszek mozdzer (p)
piotr nazaruk (voc, fl, zth, traditionelle polnische instrumente)
robert kubiszyn (b, voc)
pawel dobrowolski (dr)

01 intro
02 hej przelecial ptaszek – trudno u-cha cha
03 laura i filon
04 dwa serduszka cztery oczy
05 teskno mi teskno
06 ucisz sie
07 cyraneczka
08 tell her you saw me
09 szepty i lzy

min 64:13

fm (analog cable) – audacity – xact

deutschlandfunk kultur
in concert
2018-04-23

support the artists by buying their records.

sample: t05 teskno mi teskno 256k.mp3
download: AnnaMariaJopek_LeszekMozdzer_2018-04-20_BremenGermany.zip

image: youtube screenshot from an audience video of this performance

elliott sharp fest – 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013, london, munich & szeged hungary

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Sep 252022
 

here’s a sampling of elliott sharp, solo, from various locations and dates over around 5 years.  the style is similar throughout, which isn’t that surprising (but it could be), and the recording levels seemed quite similar (which is surprising).  so they all work together very well, if  you’re in the mood for around 2 hours of elliott sharp solo performances. g’wan, give it a try.  it’s all in 1 zip file, but with separate folders for each section below.  i was torn between this lovely combination and elliott sharp & hélène breschand “chansons du crepuscule”, in saalfelden 2018 — very very different, and in the end, this was much more sunday-morning music.  another day, perhaps.

elliott sharp
bbc studios
london, uk
broadcast: 10th nov 2008 & 24th august 2009 *

elliott sharp, guitar

4.01 velocity of hue
3.42 which delta?
5.49 bemsha swing *

source: bbc dab (mpeg-i layer ii at 192 kb/s joint stereo) > yamaha 1300 audio hdr
editing: trimmed announcements, removed offical material & fixed many balance variations
transfer: cdrw > eac > flac frontend (level 6)

quality: ex, digital all the way to you

seeder’s comments: one of the short but best jazz on 3 sessions, recorded in wonderful clarity, i seeded the first 2 tracks as part of another post while ago (re-seeded unchanged with the same file names) and the bbc broadcasted another track in one of their “missing bits” programs, so i hope you too will…
…enjoy !!

www.elliottsharp.com

elliott sharp
studio 12/ funkhaus münchen
munich, germany
may 17, 2010.

elliot sharp, guitar

1 blues abstraction 1
2 interview with elliot sharp (radio host: karl bruckmaier)
3 blues abstraction 2

lineage:
dvb-c (256 kbps/ 48 khz) > technotrend tt-1501 dvb-c pci card > harddisk.
edits were made with the mp3directcut software.

elliott sharp
szegedi jazz napok (szeged jazz days)
szegedi ih rendezvényközpont, szeged (hungary)
8 nov 2013

elliott sharp, guitar

1. raise four
nutty
rhythm-a-ning
ba-lue bolivar ba-lues-are
misterioso
’round midnight (fade out)

2. epistrophy

lineage: fm > iriver ihp-120 > sony pcm m-10 > wav (16 bit, 44.1 khz) > edits, converting to flac
sound: 8.75 out of 10 (on a subjective scale); some fm hiss, but very clean

remarks: provided as broadcasted. the second track is faded out because of programme
length limitation. track titles are listed as provided by the station programme.

http://www.elliottsharp.com/
http://www.ihrendezvenykozpont.hu/event/725

recorded, edited and shared on dad by eref2000.

sample:  munich 2010-05-17 t01 blues abstraction 1.mp3
download: ElliotSharpFest_2008-2010-2013.zip

ruby braff – aug 1999, brecon jazz festival, brecon, wales, uk

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Sep 032022
 

well summer’s over, and we’ve probably all missed the brecon jazz yet again, haven’t we?  but here’s a nice set by ruby braff from around 23 years ago to make up for it.  meanwhile, around here, i’m off to my first show at arthur’s since covid started.  keen excitement all around, naturally.  apparently they’ve (had to) remodel a bit, so also looking forward to see what it looks like now.

ruby braff
brecon jazz festival 1999
brecon, wales, uk
aug 1999 (exact date unknown)

ruby braff, cornet
scott hamilton, tenor saxophone
john bunch, piano
dave green, bass
allan ganley, drums

1 lover come back to me (14:11)
2 some day sweetheart (10:07)
3 memories of you (5:08)
4 easy living (5:07)
5 dinah (12:19)
6 closing announcement (0:08)

fm>mdsp>wave>flac
recorded by the bbc at the brecon jazz festival in wales
fm broadcast

sample: t01 lover come back to me 256k.mp3
download: RubyBraff_1999-08-00_BreconJazzFest_WalesUK.zip

image:  cover to the 1999 brecon jazz festival program, from the friends of brecon jazz site.  used without permission.

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