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i ran across this just after posting the jazzmeia horn show, and they’re good companion pieces, even if this is more than twice as old as ms. horn!  this lh&r show seems to be all over the internet (mostly bootlegs), but it always comes back to gordon skene.  and this version too was originally from an mp3 on mr. skene’s past daily website, where he describes lambert, hendricks & ross as

the be all-end all in the late 1950s and into the early 1960s with their luxurious blend of human orchestra harmonies and scat phrasing

mr. skene shares untracked mp3s, but (unusually in my experience) at a good quality: 320 kbps, which is much appreciated.  and the sound is very good.  so i made an exception and converted it to .flac & tracked it.  it was a great fun giving such an inventive & playful show a really serious listen, while tracking it.  this is as fresh today as it was in early 1962.

actually, mr. skene shares a heck of a lot more than music, never mind jazz!… i spent (definitely not wasted!) as much time on his past daily websites as i did tracking this.  probably a good deal more time.  you should definitely go have a look.

lambert, hendricks and ross
park hotel
bremen germany
23 april 1962

annie ross, vocals
john hendricks, vocals (also the lyricist)
dave lambert, vocals, trombone
gildo mahones trio:
gildo mahones – piano
richard reid – bass
chris karan – drums

01 intro / clapping 0:16
02 it’s sand, man 2:14
(dave lambert, ed lewis, jon hendricks)
03 band intro by dave lambert 1:00
04 rusty dusty 4:17
05 clapping / dl song intro 0:30
06 one o’clock jump (count basie) 3:24
07 dl song intro 0:45
08 bijou (ralph burns) 3:14
09 dl song intro 0:28
10 work song 3:17
(nat adderley & oscar brown jr.)
11 dl song intro 0:23
12 the spirit-feel 8:11
(milt jackson & jon hendricks)
13 dl introduces the gildo mahones trio 1:43
14 avenue c (buck clayton) 2:59
15 unknown (gildo mahones solo?) 10:01
16 cottontail (duke ellington) 3:05
17 dl song intro 0:35
18 moanin’ (jon hendricks) 2:58
19 sermonette 2:29
(julian “cannonball” adderley, jon hendricks)
20 ar song intro 1:51
21 jackie (wardell gray & annie ross) 3:21
22 caravan 2:30
(duke ellington, juan tizol/irving mills)
23 dl song intro 0:36
24 swingin’ till the girls come home 5:35
(oscar pettiford, jon hendricks)
25 dl band intro & song intro 1:12
26 everyday (peter chatman) 4:42
27 gildo mahones solo 1:36
(with applause throughout)
28 cloudburst 3:51
(jimmy harris, leroy kirkland)
29 gildo mahones solo > applause 0:19

tt 1:17:32

source: germany radio > unknown > .mp3 > website > jdownloader2 > .mp3
conversion & tracking:
as above > ffmpeg > .wav (sampling 44.1 khz, 16 bit) > cd wave editor (tracking)
> .wav (tracked) > tlh > .flac > renamed > .flac

downloaded from the gordon skene sound collection, at https://pastdaily.com/2015/01/11/lambert-hendricks-ross-1962-past-daily/
see also https://medium.com/@gordonskene/lambert-hendricks-and-ross-live-in-bremen-1962-past-daily-downbeat-c67459a715cb
see also https://crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/newstalgia-downbeat-lambert-hendricks-

comments:

song titles per https://www.israbox.cc/index.php?newsid=3137559094 , with a few changes
(corrections, i think…). my tracking is not precisely the same as their listing,
including in particular that i’ve split out a lot more song intros (generally, i split
them if over 25 seconds). also, between “avenue c” and “cottontail”, there is a 10-minute
piano solo, not listed on the israbox setlist, which i think is a gildo mahones solo.

see also https://genius.com/artists/lambert-hendricks-and-ross if you’re into lyrics.

sample: t24 swingin till the girls come home.mp3 (warning: sample is mp3>flac>mp3)
download:   LambertHendricksRoss_1962-04-23_ParkHotel_BremenGermany.zip

no covers.