sweet smoke – 9 april 1973, grenoble, france

 all, jazz  5 Responses »
Sep 302013
 

here’s the second recent download, sweet smoke from 1973.  i guess the 1st two tracks, which just seem to go on and on, appeal to me for some reason.  the sound quality is ok, but there is some distortion, some clipping, etc… don’t expect studio quality.

like the last post here, i’ve listened to this a number of times (although not in such quick succession).  not sure it’s to everyone’s taste, but this week it’s doing well around here.

http://sweetsmokeband.com/

sweet smoke
boulodrome
grenoble, france
9 april 1973

marvin kaminowitz: lead guitar, vocals, marimba, percussion
michael paris: sax
andy dershin: bass, percussion
jay dorfman: drums, percussion
rick greenberg: rhythm guitar, vocals, sitar, percussion
john classi: percussion
marty rosenberg: percussion

tracklist:
1: 21:18
2: silly sally > ? 33:32
3: tuning 2:11
4: 19:41
5: tuning 2:12
6: (flaw at 2:10, cuts at 18:51 and 34:53) 41:40
7: encore 11:20

runtime: 131:55 (minutes/seconds)

recieved as one single mono flac track > wav (tracked, individually reduced claps and mike bumps)

audience recording, recorded by “the french gentleman” presumably from a 1st generation analog tape copy of the original master tape.

comments by seeder on “dime”
this is one of those bands who were not around for very long at all, and there aren’t alot of live recordings of. this is likely the world premiere of this particular recording, just the second non-officially issued sweet smoke recording i’ve ever heard. the other is heidelburg, germany from about 3 months later, and was shared here at least twice previously, once by myself, and once by propylaen.

thanks go out to him for sorting that out, and the band lineup of this one.
also to “unclemeat” for sharing the original flac file of this with me
and the french gentleman for recording several great shows.
those will be shared by several other uploaders, and i will have a few more too.

this is the only one in that collection of sweet smoke, and i’m happy to share it witth you today. for some reason i am not able to make samples of this, not sure why since i always do with my uploads. the sound quality is pretty good for this era. i think most of you will be pleased, who appreciate this fine band, who also play a version of “the soft parade” as heard a few years earlier by the doors. (maybe one in here?) it’s quite different than the one heard from the doors incl. the vocals but this band is great, severely underappreciated.
hope you all find this a sweet treat. happy first day of fall in the northern world, dime. ian

sample:  sweet_smoke_1973-04-09_02_sample.mp3

download: Sweet_Smoke_1973-04-09_Grenoble.zip

j. r. monterose & hal miller – 21 apr 1990, albany, ny

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Sep 292013
 

i’ve been trying to avoid downloading something from dime-a-dozen, saying “wow, this is great!” and turning around and sharing it here.  but i’m going to make a couple of exceptions, for this post and the next, because they both really hit me just right and to celebrate starting up again after the hiatus caused by my move to seoul, korea.

this show by j.r.monterose & hal miller (both new to me, like so many things that I download from dime) was a real case of serendipity.  i was sampling a few recent downloads quickly, with an eye to something that i’d want to listen to, something that would also be suitable for a dinner party that my favorite diplomat was holding, something new and a little bit different than “the usual suspects”…

a bit of a tall order.  but this seemed just that something so i dropped my search and listened to it all the way through: perfect.  then on the night, i put it on early for a bit of reality-checking, heard about half of it: still perfect.  and then again when i restarted it before the guests arrived: yep, just the thing.

clocking in at just under 2-1/2 hours, and good enough to take 3 listenings in 12 hours?  well, that deserves an exception.  so here it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/j._r._monterose
http://chuckdaloiamusic.com/
http://vocaltraditions.com/hal_miller.html

j. r. monterose and hal miller
justin’s
albany, ny
21 april 1990

j. r. monterose – tenor saxophone
chuck d’aloia – guitar
hal miller – drums
luther brown – bass
walter donnaruma – electric piano

set one
01 nardis (first 12 seconds mono-jr monterose out)/tuning up 10:46
02 blue bossa/tenderly 11:58
03 tenderly, cont. 09:51
04 bags’ groove, announcements 11:11

set two
05 a night in tunisia 15:21
06 my old flame 11:58
07 unknown blues, announcements 11:44

set three
08 tuning 02:12
09 my one and only love 11:05
10 lady bird 11:46
11 a nightingale sang in berkley square 14:00

set four
12 well you needn’t 10:48
13 what’s new/announcements 12:00

master:
2 sennheiser 441s and sony tc-d5m
microphones placed on the front of the stage at instrument level
microphones spread 12 feet apart – right pointing towards the drum set and left pointing towards the guitar amp and sax

justin’s is a small club on lark street in albany.
i think the event was billed “hal miller and friends”.

we’re not sound engineers, we were just experimenting with microphone placement and i think we really got it right for this tape!
transfer:
playback maxell xl2-s cassette masters on sony tc-d5m to marantz pmd-670

sample:  jrmonterose_albany_042190_set1_04_sample.mp3

download: JRMonterose_1990-04-21_AlbanyNY.zip