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here’s a bumper 2-day concert recorded by george van eps (one of the guest musicians) and shared by his (nephew? it’s often so hard to tell from usernames).  such a lovely combination too – piano, cornet, clarinet, guitar and sax plus of course bass & drums, don’t forget them.  real classic stuff, and if you’re in the mood for it, four and a half hours isn’t too much at all!  to the contrary, too much is not enough as i’ve always said.  hard to find links for most of these guys, they were too old, too long before the internet, but most of them pop up on the pete fountain site, which is worth a look in its own right, or other dixieland sites.   i’ve done a little rearranging of files & folders, as noted below.  enjoy!  and here’s hoping that ‘kovinis’ shares some more of his uncle’s recordings one of these days!

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merle koch band with guests george van eps & eddie miller
silver stope
virginia city, nv
19 & 20 april 1986

piano – merle koch
cornet & mc – tom pletcher
clarinet – bob newman
bass – bunky jones
drums – v.j. bourgeois

guests
guitar – george van eps
tenor sax – eddie miller

== 19 april 1986 ==

disk 1

01 1 unknown 6:20
02 2 keepin’ out of mischief now 6:23
03 3 peg o’ my heart – george van eps & eddie miller 4:46
04 4 b flat blues 6:15
05 5 it’s wonderful 8:26
06 6 when my sugar walk down the street 7:13
07 7 blue lou 7:33

46:56

disk 2

08 1 jazz me blues 9:17
09 2 carolina in the morning 7:15
10 3 dream – eddie miller 4:13
11 4 i would do anything for you 9:05
12 5 lap piano – george van eps solo 3:25
13 6 (unknown ragtime) 2:19
14 7 my inspiration 4:12
15 8 hindustan 5:09

44:54

disk 3

16 1 mandy, make up your mind 8:14
17 2 lazy mood 3:45
18 3 what’s new – george van eps solo 3:48
19 4 unknown 8:18
20 5 unknown 8:12
21 6 jam blues? 5:45
22 7 unknown 9:04
23 8 when you’re smiling 4:22

51:28

== 20 april 1986 ==

disk 4

24 1 sunday 7:28
25 2 i never knew 8:21
26 3 internal revenue blues 7:55
27 4 dada strain 5:41
28 5 sophisticated lady 3:42
29 6 embraceable you – george van eps solo 3:32
30 7 ‘deed i do 7:26

44:04

disk 5

31 1 thou swell 8:50
32 2 i’ve got the world on a string 8:26
33 3 my funny valentine – george van eps solo 4:45
34 4 dream – eddie miller 3:13
35 5 little rock getaway 2:41
36 6 unknown 7:47
37 7 do you know what it means to miss new orleans 6:33
38 8 way down yonder in new orleans 6:30

48:44

disk 6

42 1 black bart 8:35
43 2 unknown 3:32
44 3 lazy mood 3:24
45 4 unknown 7:19
46 5 unknown 6:54
47 6 unknown 7:34
48 7 unknown 9:22
49 8 stars fell on alabama (?) 8:20

55:00

tt 4:51:07

source: 10″ master reels recorded by smokey lawrence on his sony tc-755 > pioneer rt-909 > peak > flac

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comments from ‘kovinis’ (seeder on dimeadozen)

“i decided to share some of the recordings of my late uncle, george van eps.
this is only disk 4 of a 6 cd set of a concert that spanned two days. i will
upload the rest of this concert if there is any interest. i also have many
other live recordings of my uncle from many different venues and various
musicians. these also await your requests.

any help with setlists is appreciated. i hope you enjoy this. the audio
quality is quite nice.”

changes
– combined folders into two instead of six
– but no file renaming: with the numbered subfolders, the tracks should play in order
– new consolidated info file (this file), now with track timings
– consolidated ffp and md5 checksum files

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samples:
disk 2 Track 8 jazz me blues 256k.mp3
disk 6 track 42 black bart 256k.mp3
downloads:
MerleKoch_1986-04-19_SilverStope_VirginiaCityNV.zip
MerleKoch_1986-04-20_SilverStope_VirginiaCityNV.zip