Feb 222018
 

as promised on my posting a few minutes ago, here’s the stars of modern jazz show.  it’s out there on any number of bootlegs, but mostly v.o.a. sourced.  if you’ve not heard it, it’ll knock your socks off.


stars of modern jazz concert –
recorded @ carnegie hall, new york city, ny (usa), december 25, 1949 –
“symphony sid” torin (emcee)

bud powell (piano), curley russell (bass), max roach (drums)
01: all god’s chillun got rhythm – 3:37

miles davis (trumpet), benny green (trombone), sonny stitt (alto saxophone), serge chaloff (baritone saxophone) + bud powell trio as above
02: move – 6:11
03: hot house – 7:55
04: ornithology (not complete) – 3:37

kai winding (trombone), stan getz (tenor saxophone), al haig (piano), tommy potter (bass), roy haynes (drums)
05: always – 3:48
06: sweet miss – 4:17
07: long island sound (no trombone) – 2:13

sarah vaughn (vocals) acc. by jimmy jones (piano)
08: once in a while – 3:47
09: mean to me – 2:28

lee konitz (alto saxophone), warne marsh (tenor saxophone), lennie tristano (piano), billy bauer (guitar), joe shulman (bass), jeff morton (drums)
10: you go to my head – 4:34
11: sax of a kind – 5:13

red rodney (trumpet), charlie parker (alto saxophone), al haig (piano), tommy potter (bass), roy haynes (drums)
12: ornithology – 5:27
13: cheryl – 5:02
14: koko – 5:11
15: bird of paradise – 6:09
16: now’s the time – 5:18

lineage: jass j-cd-16 (bootleg, mostly voice of america sourced) –> hard disc –> trader’s little helper (flac 8)

good –> very good sound quality considering the age of the recordings


sample:  t13 cheryl.mp3
download: StarsOfModernJazz_1949-12-25_NYC.zip


Feb 222018
 

here’s a show that i was enjoying this evening in between phone calls.  ‘survivor69’ shared it on dime in june 2014 and described it well:  quite classic jazz.  and very cheery, i thought, a real pick me up.  survivor69 called the show parker’s mood, since these long tracks are mostly from the album “woman’s land” , and somehow are intended in bird’s mood…, and di battista had an album “parker’s mood”.  i suppose that all hangs together.  speaking of charlie parker, i was also listening to stars of modern jazz, a phenomenal bootleg with several tracks by charlie parker.  look for that up next.  synchronicity.

but this has been mouldering away on my hard drives, probably unheard since i first downloaded it and gave it a listen.   i listen to virtually everything that i download, except the videos — for some reason, those are often overlooked.  so a lot of stuff never gets a second look.  unless, as today, i pick a random show.  today was “s” day; and so stefano di battista.  mind you, some still doesn’t get a 2nd listen past the first song.  but other shows make it into the car… or even up here.

www.stefanodibattista.eu
www.facebook.com/andreareamusic
daniele sorrentino
www.roberto-pistolesi.com


stefano di battista quartet: “parker’s mood”
festival del sassofono
auditorium parco della musica di roma
rome, italy
15 may 2013

stefano di battista, saxophone
andrea rea, pianoforte
daniele sorrentino, bass
roberto pistolesi, drums

(00-radio introduction by pino saulo)
1- molly bloom [di battista]
2- rita [di battista]
3- band’s intro
4- sax intro
5- the jody grind [horace silver]
6- thanks
7- coco chanel [di battista]
8-radio outro

running time : 61’52” (without radio intro/outro)
with radio intros it would be 65’14”

lineage (fm > hard disc > web):
itt hifi4060 tuner > audacity 2.0 via asus a7s333 c-media cmi8738/c3dx soundcard > .aup > 44100hz/16bit flac’s (level 8) > webtorrenting
fm radio broadcast by “il cartellone – radio tre suite jazz”, radio 3 rai [third channell of italian national radio], on monday 23 june 2014, 21:41 hours [cet].
firstly upped by survivor69 on dimeadozen.org, 24-june-2014 (dimeupload #1179)

survivor69’s comments:
these long tracks are mostly from the album “woman’s land”, and somehow are intended in bird’s mood… quite classic jazz, i would say… also included in the folder as track 00 a radio introduction in italian with bio notes and commentaries – this intro runs for 2’39”, you can skip downloading it if you don’t understand italian.


sample: t7 coco chanel.mp3
download: StefanoDiBattista20130515roma.zip


Feb 102018
 

it’s the day for vienna, i guess.  had some trouble finding something that i felt like listening to (i’d been listening to a tom waits show and was thinking of posting it here, but it seems to be both on 100 greatest bootlegs and also on past daily.  sometimes, one little thing…).  but seriously, after listening to tom waits, what did i expect?  doh!

aaaaannyway, this finally caught my eye:  a lovely little two-fer from erich kleinschuster in the orf studios, from late 1969 & early 1970.  ‘rillenheini’ seeded them (separately) on dime in mid-2015, but they go together nicely (and are a bit short, individually).  and the vienna day?  salena jones in vienna & graz from 1973 popped up next somehow.


erich kleinschuster quintet
orf studios
wien (austria)
october 10, 1969

erich kleinschuster (tb), hans salomon (ts), fritz pauer (p,elp), jimmy woode (b), erich bachträgl (dr)

01. unknown tune (p,b,dr only) – 5:03
02. unknown tune – 4:15
03. unknown tune – 4:13
04. unknown tune – 6:42
05. unknown tune – 5:18

lineage: pre-fm 1st gen r-t-r tape copy (7 1/2 i.p.s.) > zoom h2 (44.1 khz/16 bit) > sd card > hdd > audacity (flac)

sound quality: a – (tape hiss)

original seeder’s comment:  “found this tape in my vaults with the insufficient information “erich kleinschuster 10.10.1969 orf” … the recording probably was never broadcast.”


erich kleinschuster sextet
orf studios
wien (austria)
april 10, 1970

art farmer (tp,flh), erich kleinschuster (tb), hans salomon (ss,ts,bcl), bosko petrovic (vib), fritz pauer (p,elp), peter marshall (b), erich bachträgl (dr)

01. raindrops in sunshine – 4:23
02. green mood – 6:02
03. with pain i was born – 6:37
04. offertorium – 3:59
05. balkan express – 3: 56
06. late spring – 2:45

lineage: pre-fm tape > 1st gen copy > cd > hdd > tlh (flac 8)

sound quality: a


sample (1969):  t03 unknown.mp3
sample (1970): t05 balkan express.mp3

download: ErichKleinschuster_19691970_ORFStudios_ViennaAustria.zip

covers by pete.  cover photo of drawing on the front of a house.


Feb 032018
 

this is one of my favorite lounge recordings, with that bit of background noise giving atmosphere but not taking too much away from the music.  only problem (if it is that) is that you need to turn this up a bit.  a nice collection of classics, including one of my favorites ‘willow weep for me’

about all i could find out online about margaret parsons is that (news flash!) she’s a jazz singer apparently based in the charlottesville area.


margaret parsons jazz group
saxx jazz and blues lounge
charlottesville, va
7 sept 2007

cd 1 (set i):

1. the best is yet to come 6:06
2. bewitched, bothered and bewildered 6:22
3. black coffee 7:18
4. let’s fall in love 4:26
5. you’d be so nice to come home to 5:09
6. come rain or come shine 5:26
7. it’s love 4:55
8. willow weep for me 5:45
9. all or nothing at all 4:47
10. i love paris 5:42
11. i didn’t know about you 6:01
12. you do something to me 3:59

cd 2 (set ii):

1. comes love 6:30
2. something cool 5:35
3. what a little moonlight can do 3:16
4. stormy weather 4:28
5. no moon at all 5:11
6. honeysuckle rose 7:45
7. the nearness of you 6:25
8. peel me a grape 5:49

cd1 time 1:05:54
cd2 time 44:47
tt 1:50:52

src: akg c480bs (hypercardioids) > tascam hd-p2 (24 bit/48 khz) > wav > dithered using l3 plugin, rendered to 16 bit and downsampled to 44.1 khz in wavelab 5.0 > flac

recorded all the way in the back of the club so as to be unobtrusive. definite club ambiance, including some conversation, clinking of glasses and cutlery, etc., but for the most part this was a good listening audience, allowing for a decent and enjoyable recording. recorded and seeded by bill tetzeli


sample: d1t08 willow weep for me.mp3
download: MargaretParsonsJazzGroup_2007-09-07_CharlottesvilleVA.zip

covers by pete.  a sort of ecm-style cover, so that the photo would crop the way that i wanted…  might reuse this layout as a fall-back template.