it’s jazz month, and tuesday, 30-april, is international jazz day!
i’m planning on going to see a double-header of matt jacobson’s ReDiviDeR and the aoife doyle band, at the wild duck. i saw aoife doyle recently at one of the dublin jazz co-op‘s sunday night gigs at the workmans club, and matt jacobson seems to pop up on drums constantly here in dublin (which is a good thing). it should be an excellent evening!
so, camille o’sullivan is touring this year, including her version of shakespeare’s rape of lucrece, as well as her nick cave show. i’ve seen her rape of lucrece, and really must say that is is immensely powerful, a show not to be missed. i’ll be seeing it again at the pavilion in dún laoghaire, but there will also be shows at the droichead arts center, drogheda and the everyman, cork. hoping to also catch the nick cave show at the olympia next fall, but tickets aren’t on sale yet.
no, i’m not sharing it, but i noticed that this 4.4gb collection is available at plumdusty’s page. if you don’t have this, it’s worth the effort to download it. 4.4 gigs seemed soooo much to download when i got it back in 2004, on a considerably slower internet connection that most people have now. some of the tracks have been released, here and there, i believe. here’s the artwork JohnColtrane-LiveTraneUnderground-artwork.zip in case plumdusty doesn’t have it.
in madrid for a few days, i was lucky enough to catch the kenny garrett quintet at clamores jazz. i’ve not been to clamores before — actually, i associate it more with clubbing (which they still do there, starting late & ending early, natch!) — but i quite liked the place. i was a bit taken aback at 9pm to find myself just about the last person in the door for what turned out to be a 10pm show; i’ll be there earlier next time, and dinner be damned. anyway, it was a great show though all i had to record with was an android phone (no it’s not really listenable, thanks for asking). sometimes, k.g. reminded me of a younger pharoah sanders; googling today, i see that’s not just me (1) (2). pharoah sanders was one of my favorite musicians at one point (and i’ll always have a soft spot for his music), so that added a bit of a kick to the show. (i’ve only seen p.s. once, at the cork jazzfest a bit over a decade ago.) the music in the last half hour didn’t really do it for me, though i must say kenny garrett knows how to get people up out of their seats — the energy when he switched from jazz to (i’m not sure what) kept me there. and a long show, too: i left after 2 hours, and they were still at it.
bottom line: liked clamores, loved kenny garrett. i’ll be back, and hope k.g. will as well.
kenny garrett / saxs
vernell brown / piano
corcoran holt / dbass
samuel laviso / drums
rudy bird / percussion
i’m off to sao paulo for a short visit. fortunately, i found a usb solid state drive loaded with a wide variety of music, from some trip or other… beefed it up with a half-dozen shows in brazil (why not?). so we might have a bit of a break here. then again, i might get a bit of a break there. (“then again”… that’s a nice little idiomatic phrase, isn’t it?)
just heading home after a visit to raleigh, nc, usa, home of one of my favourite online stations, wncu fm.
they were having – sorry, are still having – their fundraising week. it’s one of two jazz stations on the internet radio in the kitchen at home (yes, wpfw fm in d.c. is the other, of course.) bandwidth costs money, so…
and so… what’re your favourite internet jazz stations?
and if they live on listener donations, think about giving them some spondulix (but don’t tell us if you donate… that’s your business).
here i am, in atlanta on the way home. cheers.
just installed an iogear 2-port hd-cable kvm switch (model gcs62su). setup was easy, & it’s working great. the audio however follows the kvm switch, which i don’t want. my workaround is streamwhatyouhear, so the jazz plays on both home & work computers. also, latency on my home computer: 10-15 seconds to switch the keyboard & mouse. it’s a few years old, running win7. my work laptop (new, with win10) has no such problem.
listening to tingvall trio right now.
i’ve enabled registration for the site, as an experiment. if it gets clogged with spammers, i’ll just turn it off again.
you can register below to the right, where it says “register” in the ‘meta’ section. or here: link
also, as mentioned earlier, i’ve added an rss feed. actually, i see one in the ‘meta’ section also, but haven’t tried that link yet. so you can give it a try, or use the feedburner rss feed, on the right sidebar under ‘follow cipjazz’
yes, i’ve finally gotten around to adding an rss feed. on the right sidebar, under ‘follow cipjazz’ or here:
this is for an old college friend of mine. the zip files are only going to be available for a couple of days (until he downloads the files). the comments below & the picture (cd cover?) are from the original seed.
i don’t listen to this sort of thing anymore, but i must say: these songs have held up very well. a quick check of the sound quality turned into listening to the whole show. “one never knows, do one?”
the monkees
pantages theater
hollywood, los angeles, california, usa
september 16, 2016
band:
micky dolenz
michael nesmith
peter tork
+ backing band
lineage: q2 zoom>unknown equilization>flac>wav>cdwave (for tracking)>flac (level 8 using traders little helper)
taped by elliott marx
set one (54:15):
01 intro
02 last train to clarksville
03 papa gene’s blues
04 your auntie grizelda
05 saturday’s child
06 she
07 a little bit me, a little bit you
08 she makes me laugh
09 the girl i knew somewhere
10 sometime in the morning
11 me & magdalena
12 shades of gray
13 randy scouse git
14 for pete’s sake
15 you bring the summer
16 listen to the band
17 what am i doin’ hangin’ round
set two (57:22):
18 mary mary
19 circle sky
20 porpoise song
21 long title: do i have to do this all over again
22 words
23 sunny girlfriend
24 (i’m not your) steppin’ stone
25 you just may be the one
26 you told me
27 birth of an accidental hipster
28 goin’ down
29 d.w. washburn
30 tapioca tundra
31 daydream believer
32 pleasant valley sunday
33 i’m a believer
notes: this was billed as michael nesmith’s final performance with the monkees – he has appeared sporadically in guest slots during their on-going 50th anniversary tour, but, peter tork had a family emergency that precluded his ability to perform in arizona, so, nesmith stepped in. this was the perfect lead in to this show – tork returned and nesmith had two previous shows to “warm up”. the result has monkee fans all over the internet in a tizzy; this was a fabulous performance with a once in a lifetime setlist which was completely different from what they had been playing the entire tour, and even different from the previous two shows that tork missed.
rhino records owns the rights to the monkees’ catalogue, and, they have already announced that this show was neither filmed nor profess- ionally recorded – fortunately, amateur archivist elliott marx took it upon himself to record the show “from start to finish” and shared this recording on facebook. i asked him if he was able to share the lossless files and he shared them via webtransfer; i took his flac files – which, he noted, he had equalized and added fades; it also sounds like he used the auto setting on the mic levels – and extracted to wav to track in cdwave, then re-encoded back to flac to share here on dime.
this is a stunning performance, featuring four songs from their outstanding new album “good times!” including the universally hailed “me & magdalena”, which was written by ben gibbard from death cab for cutie. the recording itself is very strong, especially by monkee fan standards; it’s very clear and enjoyable for the hardcore fan and casual listener alike. as it stands, the recording is a document of historical import in the world of monkee fans, as this is the end of the road for the living members of the band; micky and peter continued the tour in las vegas without papa nez.
please don’t profit from this transfer – share it, post it, give it away, but, don’t make money off of it.
sample: t02 last train to clarksville.mp3 t33 im a believer.mp3
download:
flac Monkees_2016-09-16_LosAngeles_master_FLAC.zip
mp3 Monkees_2016-09-16_LosAngeles_master_MP3.zip