Oct 132018
 

marilyn mazur is one of those names that has seemed to float at the edge of my awareness – recognize the name, know i’ve heard some, but beyond that not much.  so at some point recently, i downloaded several of her shows from dime to try and rectify that situation, including this one (which was up on dime around 18 months ago).  a lot more percussion than what i normally listen to, which is very refreshing.   but not music for my car or for working… more for sitting and listening to.


marilyn mazur’s percussion paradise
“all the birds” – tour
feat. eivind aarset + palle mikkelborg
12. jazzpar 2001
værket
randers, denmark
19 apr 2001

marilyn mazur – perc, drums, voice
lisbeth diers – perc, voice
benita haastrup – perc, voice
birgit løkke-larsen – perc, voice
josefine cronholm – voc
aina kemanis – voc
klavs hovman – bass
anders jormin – ac.bass
audun kleive – drums
elvira plenar – keys
fredrik lundin – electronics, flute, sax
hans ulrik – bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, sax
+
eivind aarset – guitar, electronics
palle mikkelborg – trumpet

01. intro > spin power 5:42
02. bird dance in red 9:04
03. vintersolens sang (song of the winter sun) 8:22
04. stafet (relay) 7:34
05. unknown 4:23
06. unknown 2:52

total time 37:59 min.

source:
fm recording
aired by danish radio on 2001-04-23
retracked and named by fbauer in 05/2017


sample: t04 stafet.mp3
download: MarilynMazur_2001-04-19_CopenhagenDenmark.zip

covers included with original seed.


Oct 072018
 

well, this has been something of a run, between posts here and to dime.  but i think it ends with this charming show by twana rhodes (who i’d not heard of before).  this was combined with a show by dianne reeves in a video, but i quite preferred this show.  so i’ve split it out into a separate video file and (very unusually) am uploading the video here, with an added bonus (here only) of demuxed, tracked, audio (in the original ac3 format).  learned a bit more about using ffmpeg and had some fun.  good thing i quite liked this, having listened to it around 3 times in the process.


twana rhodes & köstritzer jazz quartet
jazz baltica
salzau, germany
mid-1990s, exact date unknown

twana rhodes – vocals
mathias nadolny – sax
hendrik soll – piano
gunnar plümer – bass
thomas alkier – drums

1. glass house  4:26
2. through the night  6:58
3. window pane  3:48
4. i should have known (with band intros)  7:23

tt 22:36

http://www.twana-rhodes.com/
http://www.matthiasnadolny.de
http://www.hendriksoll.de/

original lineage:
all tracks are vhs rip via videoglide to an uncompressed .mov file then edited encoded via final cut pro.

additional lineage:
this was one of two shows shared in a single dvd-format (vob) video: twana rhodes & köstritzer band at
jazz baltica, salzau, germany sometime in the 1990s, and dianne reeves at jazzfestival bern, bern,
switzerland sometime in 1994. the video was converted into an mp4 container, which itself was then split
into the separate concerts.

as above (.vob) > ffmpeg (convert to one mp4 file > ffmpeg (split) > two .mp4 files
ffmpeg command (vob to mp4):
ffmpeg -y -i “concat:vts_01_1.vob|vts_01_2.vob|vts_01_3.vob|vts_01_4.vob” -vcodec copy -acodec copy “dianne reeves 1994 bern & twana rhodes 199xx jazzbaltica.mp4”
ffmpge commands (split mp4)
ffmpeg -y -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:39:03 -i “dianne reeves 1994 bern & twana rhodes 199xx jazzbaltica.mp4” -c copy “dianne reeves 1994.mp4”
ffmpeg -y -ss 00:39:03 -i “dianne reeves 1994 bern & twana rhodes 199xx jazzbaltica.mp4” -c copy “twana rhodes 199xx jazzbaltica.mp4”

see file “video conversion – compare files.pdf” for comparison of video details (per mediainfo 18.08.1) end-to-end

original seeder’s comments
this dvd is part of a series of vhs rips from my collection of jazz originally broadcast on european tv satellite
networks from the years 1993 to 1999. i was in the process of disposing of many vhs tapes and thought it was a shame
not to capture these gems as they provided a lot of enjoyment for me in the pre youtube days.

video quality is as expected (or maybe even slightly worse then expected) from a 15-20 year old vhs cassette. some
audio clean up (noise reduction in audacity) was done on some rips there was constant noise throughout. audio ripped
from the encoded stream using mpegclip improved using the noise profile feature in audacity. i believe the results of
the audio editing won’t have many complaints. 🙂


sample: t02 through the night.mp3
download: TwanaRhodes_199x-xx-xx_JazzBaltica.zip

no covers.


Oct 052018
 

it’s been a seriously don pullen – george adams day around here.  i’ve listened to must be 4 or 5 concerts, over 10 hours of music.  been working, been working, but i still got a long way to go.  started the day with the django bates concert that i’d been messing with last weekend, thought i’d finish with one of these shows.  in this one, that was shared by bluenote2005 in sept 2007 (which was a good period on dime for pullen-adams shows, btw), the taper’s self assessment is about right: source aud, sound b.  maybe a little bit better? (though the piano is rather faint) and like so many pullen-adams shows, the energy just bleeds right through in any case.


don pullen and george adams quartet
bologna, italy
23 october 1985

george adams- tenor,
don pullen- piano
cameron brown- bass
danny richmond- drums

disc 1 (64:04):

01. city gates (adams) 18:44
02. song from the old country (pullen) 13:53
03. sing me a song everlasting (pullen) 16:08
04. well, i guess we’ll never know (pullen) 15:18

disc 2 (64:22):

01. we’ve been here all the time (pullen) 13:04
02. message urgent (adams) 18:01
03. how deep is the ocean? (berlin) 22:27
04. big alice (pullen) 9:59

total time 128:26

source: audience
sound: b


sample: d1 t01 (incomplete).mp3
download: Pullen-Adams_1985-10-23_BolognaItaly.zip

covers were in the seed i downloaded; don’t know if it was by bluenote2005 or the original seeder.


Oct 052018
 

fantastic schedule coming up all this month at arthur’s blues & jazz, in the heart of the liberties here in dublin.  i’ve a lot going on too, but just have to make more time than normal for the trek down to thomas street.  (i generally walk in, around 40 minutes, so when i say “trek”… ).  if  you’re in town, you should check it out, along with (on sunday nights) the fascinating shows that  the dublin jazz co-op organizes at the workman’s club, down on the quays.

 Posted by at 21:35
Oct 052018
 

i was listening to part of this the other day and noticed it was a duplicate — but the “duplicate” turned out to be (almost all of) the rest of the show. so here are the two halves, in flac format with replay-gain. researching this, i discovered (a) someone else did this too (but i don’t have that version) and (b) that version includes an encore. if that more complete version floats across my horizon, i’ll grab it but in the meanwhile…


django bates’ quiet nights
stadtgarten
cologne, germany
11 june 1997

django bates – keyboards, t-horn, voc
josefine cronholm – vocals
iain ballamy – soprano sax, tenor sax
michael mondesir – bass
martin france – drums

source 1 (43:00)
01 wdr3-radio dj michael ruesenberg 0:52
02 speak low (kurt weill) 9:40
03 hi li li hi lo (bronislav kaper) 5:24
04 solitude (duke ellington) 7:29
05 potatoe picker – over the rainbow (django bates – harold arlen) 19:08
06 oe1-radio dj herbert uhlir 0:24

source 2 (36:01)
07 underfelt (django bates) 07:23
08 quiet nights (antonio carlos jobim) 05:28
09 like someone in love (van heusen/burke) 07:01
10 is there anyone up there (django bates) 06:59
11 teach me tonight (de paul/cahn) 03:37
12 horses in the rain (django bates) 05:30
(not included: source 2, track 7: somewhere over the rainbow (arlen/harburg) 09:16)

missing 13 speak low (reprise)

tt 1:19:01

sources
source 1:
dime #372713 (shared in mp2 format by lewojazz, 2011-09-05)
tracks were originally shared in mp2 format (cbr 320 kbs; 2 channels; sampling 48.0 khz), and
have been converted to flac using ffmpeg.
dvb-s > digital satellitereceiver humax pvr8000 > mp2 > ffmpeg v.3.2.2 > flac
mpeg 1.0 layer-2; 48,000 hz stereo; 320 kbps
broadcast: wdr3, jazznacht, 2011-09-04

source 2:
dime #301931 (shared in flac format by unclewolfi, 2010-05-02).
track 107 (9:16) duplicates the 2nd half (8:49) of track 205, and has been omitted.
tracks were originally shared in .flac format and are unchanged (except to omit track 107)
dvb-s > techno trend tt-premium 2300 > hdd > nero wave editor > flac
mpeg1 layer 2/320 kbps

all tracks: as above for 1xx or 2xx > foobar200 (add replaygain as a single album)

comments
the encore, a reprise of speak low, is missing.

a complete version of this show has been seeded on dime, including the encore. see details of torrent
475596 by ‘fbauer’, below [in the info file, that is! — pete], which is a similar joining of two incomplete broadcasts. i’ve put the two
parts that i have in the same order, which makes sense (but which i don’t actually know is the right order).
within each source, the tracks are in the order originally broadcast.

the cd front-cover from unclewolfi’s seed (source 2)has been included (file “django bates quiet nights – cologne 97 f.jpg”)
for source 1, lewojazz noted that
these are the parts 19 to 22 of the wdr/oe1-jazznight 2011-09-04
http://www.wdr3.de/fileadmin/user_upload/sendungen/jazz/2011/laufplaene/09_september/lp-wdr-3-jazznacht-110904_1.pdf
the related pdfs shared by lewojazz are included (file “wdr3.pdf” and “lp-wdr-3-jazznacht-110904_1.pdf”)


sample: t2 – Speak Low.mp3
download:  DjangoBates_1997-06-11_QuietNights_Cologne.zip

cover from unclewolfi’s seed, see notes above.