even though i posted a george coleman show from 12 nov 1979 back in january this year, i can’t resist posting this one. it’s a good recording but not perfect (the seeder or taper rated it b+), and oh my goodness but this goes on and on (though in fairness, it is over two nights). so naturally, it was the first thing i put on a fresh usb drive for the car — currently more like a georgecolemanmobile, but then i don’t drive much here.
i’ve split the two nights into separate .zip files, but the info file & checksum files are for all files being in one folder.
update: track 12 is apparently missing from the zip files, but can be downloaded at https://1fichier.com/?gtzsevhtpg461xr2jn45
george coleman quartet village vanguard april 16-17 1985 fixed
village vanguard nyc
april 16-17 1985
george coleman – tenor and alto sax
harold mabern – piano
al foster – drums
jamil nasser- bass
unknown on vocals track 22
tracks 01-11 april 16, 1985
tracks 12-29 april 17, 1985
01 it could happen to you 15:38
02 lollipops and roses 13:56
03 unknown blues 12:23
04 like someone in love 18:11
05 lo-joe/coleman announcements 01:04
06 the chief 13:49
07 somewhere in the night 16:18
08 new york housing blues 14:44
09 samba d’orfeo/theme 18:54
10 mr. pc 15:12
11 the masquerade is over 15:27
12 the song is you (incomplete) 08:24
13 someday my prince will come 19:16
14 i want to talk about you 24:10
15 subway ride 13:02
16 new york medley: i love new york/i’ll take manhattan/how about you/harlem nocturne/autumn in new york 17:49
17 new york, new york 05:15
18 ceora 18:52
19 unknown uptempo blues 17:40
20 stars & stripes/strike up the band 17:56
21 the song is you 06:13
22 lo-joe 00:25
23 you’re nobody til somebody loves you 01:49
24 uptempo blues 15:31
25 tadd’s delight 15:37
26 mohawk 12:17
27 something cool 05:13
28 tico tico 07:42
29 four 20:21
tt = 6:23:20
source: audience, probably cassette tape
sound quality: b+
notes:
thanks to bluenote2004 for the original seed of this in 2008. it listed the year and personnel incorrectly. many tunes were unidentified. some still are. check sound samples in comments.
sony soundforge pro 10.0 used to join fragments, redo track splits, eliminate blank spots between songs, equalize to boost bass with width of 1.4 octaves centered around 100 hz.
still needs pitch correction on some tracks – who can do?
07: interruptions during piano solo, with audio degradation and speed problems
16: interruption in sax solo between nocturne & autumn in ny. popping
18: beginning cut, interruption during piano solo
25: popping
26: popping, tape flip during piano solo
27: popping
27: popping
sample:
t08 ny housing blues.mp3
t26 mohawk.mp3
download:
GeorgeColeman_1985-04-16_VillageVanguardNYC.zip
GeorgeColeman_1985-04-17_VillageVanguardNYC.zip
no covers today.
i’m not sure what made me think of vijay iyer the other day, but i ended up listening to 3 of his shows from 2016 over the course of the day today. this one features tyshawn sorey on drums, and it took some looking to find him on the internet (“titian”, “tysion”, the list goes on… there was no lineup in the original info file). each of the 3 shows had a different drummer, first the june 2016 frankfurt show had marcus gilmore on drums, then this show with tyshawn sorey & finally justin brown at the oct 2016 bimhuis show.
i was listening to these on thursday, and would have uploaded them yesterday except we headed down to co. cork. busy busy, eh?
well, i was on a bit of a heath bros kick today. which, by the way, is quite the way to get a day’s work in. like those old lucky ads said: picks you up when you’re down, calms you down when you’re tense. etc etc.
here’s a nice show from the national concert hall in dublin that i recorded off the air & seeded on dime in 2007. it’s a great show, and very well recorded but wasn’t so good for folks who actually attended.
lately, i’ve been listening more to groups for whom i have few, or even only one, show (not to take away from the many great, and sadly often late, jazz musicians, from whom i might have rather more shows or cds). generally, those are groups less familiar to me & there’s a tendency to comparatively new jazz as well, which is a nice bonus.