Jan 192019
 

weill and sondheim!  in one tidy 2 hour package!  while i have a lot of weill, i don’t have much sondheim.  though i downloaded ‘sweeney todd’ yesterday, on the foot of running across this.  years ago – 12? 13?- i saw a phenomenal production of ‘sweeney todd’; an internet search suggests it must have been the 2007 production at the gate.  anyway, it was marvelous, probably my favorite of the musicals that i’ve seen.


helen schneider: “a walk on the weill side” live at hebbel-theater, berlin, 26-10-1989

helen schneider – vocals
bruce w. coyle – piano, original musical direction and arrangements
compositions by stephen sondheim respectively kurt weill, if not otherwise indicated.

part 1: the stephen sondheim side
1. move [from ‘sunday in the park with george’]
2. everybody says don’t [from ‘anyone can whistle’]
3. another hundred people [from ‘company’]
4. now you know [ from ‘merrily we roll along’]
5. there won’t be trumpets [from ‘anyone can whistle’]
6. anyone can whistle [from ‘anyone can whistle’]
7. broadway baby [from ‘follies’]
8. uptown, downtown [from ‘follies’]
9. can that boy foxtrot [from ‘follies’]
10. not while i’m around [from ‘sweeney todd’]
11. old friends [from ‘merrily we roll along’]
12. what more do i need? [from ‘saturday night’]
13. getting married today [from ‘company’]
14. send in the clowns [from ‘a little night music’]
15. losing my mind [from ‘follies’]

part 2: the kurt weill side
1. mack the knife [from ‘dreigroschenoper’, lyrics: b. brecht]
2. barbara’s song [from ‘dreigroschenoper’, lyrics: b. brecht]
3. pirate jenny [from ‘dreigroschenoper’, lyrics: b. brecht]
4. surabaya johnny [from ‘happy end’, lyrics: b. brecht]
5. i wait for a ship [from ‘marie galante’, lyrics: j. deval]
6. my ship [from ‘lady in the dark’, lyrics: i. gershwin]
7. how can you tell an american [from ‘knickerbocker holiday’, lyrics: m. anderson]
8. progress [from ‘love life’, lyrics: a.j. lerner]
9. stranger here myself [from ‘one touch of venus’, lyrics: o. nash]
10. mon ami, my friend [from ‘johnny johnson’, lyrics: p. green]
11. september song [from ‘knickerbocker holiday’, lyrics: m. anderson]
12. it never was you [from ‘knickerbocker holiday’, lyrics: m. anderson]
13. what good would the moon be [from ‘street scene’, lyrics: l. hughes]
14. introduction of the staff
15. somewhere [from ‘west side story’, music: leonard bernstein/ lyrics: stephen sondheim]
16. johnny’s song [from ‚johnny johnson’; lyrics: p. green; part]

lineage:
part 1: fm (technics st-500) => audio tape => hd (sound blaster live!) => flac (eac)
part 2: master tape => tape ? => audio tape => hd (sound blaster live!) => flac (eac)


samples:
1-02 everybody says dont.mp3
2-03 pirate jenny.mp3
download: HelenSchneider_1989-10-26_HebbelTheater_Berlin.zip

covers  from original download


Jan 132019
 

i was looking for a show by a different billy, which seems to be missing, and ended up listening to this.  tantalizingly, the info file says “disc one”.  where is disc two?  anyway, this performance was just 3 weeks before billy harper (& this same lineup) recorded black saint, which includes “croquet ballet”.  maybe the missing disc two includes “dance, eternal spirits, dance!” and “call of the wild and peaceful heart”…


billy harper quintet
laren, the netherlands
july 3, 1975

billy harper, tenor saxophone
virgil jones, trumpet
joe bonner, piano
david friesen, bass
malcolm pinson, drums

disc one
d1t01 priestess  [0:26:01]
d1t02 capra black [0:19:27]
d1t03 croquet ballet [0:11:19]

tt 56:46

source: fm broadcast > ? > flac compression level 8


sample: t03 croquet ballet.mp3
download: BillyHarper_1975-07-03_LarenNetherlands.zip


Jan 102019
 

no, i’m not sharing it, but i noticed that this 4.4gb collection is available at plumdusty’s page.  if you don’t have this, it’s worth the effort to download it.  4.4 gigs seemed soooo much to download when i got it back in 2004, on a considerably slower internet connection that most people have now.  some of the tracks have been released, here and there, i believe.  here’s the artwork JohnColtrane-LiveTraneUnderground-artwork.zip in case plumdusty doesn’t have it.

 Posted by at 16:59
Jan 062019
 

here’s a little more hammond b3 that’s been lurking on my drives for around 6 years, from sam salomone / sam anthony.  you can find out a bit about sam salomone from the central iowa blues society, including that he was inducted into the iowa jazz hall of fame.   ‘scooter123’ shared this in a folder labelled 1974-1975, but the info file said just 1974, so  i wonder if this is a compliation.  btw, i’ve reencoded the flac files.


sam anthony trio aka sam salomone
live at ernies urban lounge
des moines, ia
1974 xx-xx

sam anthony (aka sam salomone) hammond b3 [cibs page]
frank tribble, guitar
tom gordon, drums
ella ruth pigee, vocals [cibs page]
stemzie hunter, tenor sax

1. instrumental
2. could it be (i’m falling in love)
3. instrumental
4. instrumental
5. instrumental
6. instrumental
7. instrumental
8. instrumental
9. instrumental
10. chameleon
11. instrumental
12. super strut
13. snoopy’s search
14. instrumental
15. pass the peas
16. muskrat love

tt: 2:08:42

genre: jazz
audience tape: a
mikes: sony
recorder: sony tc126
transfer: goldwave (volume boost, compression > dither to 16b) > media monkey (flac transfer l8)
location: right center
recorded by scooter123
tapers trade list: http://db.etree.org/mylibbydog
not for sale. free trade only

tapers notes:

god bless sam salomone, for without him i may not have discovered jazz and jimmy smith. he played
a hammond b3 with pedles and a leslie of course. he was joined by frank tribble and tommy gordon.
this trio was joined by ella ruth pigee. they were the house band at a dump of a place called
ernie’s urban lounge. stemzie hunter of the electric flag joined them on sax, so they were really
a quartet, but whose counting. sam also got me into taping every concert i ever saw, no matter what
because if you don’t tape it, its only a memory.

the track list is mostly jazz standards, and i can’t recall them, so help me out with the titles of
the tracks.

update december 2018:

the flac files would not play in foobar2000. i tested them several ways, finding nothing wrong with
them… except that foobar2000 wouldn’t play. using tlh, i decoded and re-encoded (flac 5) the files.
i also created new ffp and md5 checksum files. in principle, the music should be identical to that
in the original flacs.


sample: t06 instrumental 10.mp3
download: SamAnthony_akaSamSalomone_1974-xx-xx_ErniesUrbanLounge_DesMoinesIA.zip


Jan 022019
 

happy new year!

here’s another illinois jacquet show, to keep the mumbai 1994 show company.  i only downloaded this recently, but the torrent was stuck at 99.9% for the longest time… i’d given up all hope and then, magically, it finished up overnight!  flushed with excitement, i’m immediately uploading it!  well, no, actually:  i’ve already listened to this around 3 times over the past couple of days (only the info and checksum files were incomplete).   but now i can share this without any caveats about incomplete downloads.  thanks to ellaguru who share this in march 2017


illinois jacquet big band
san francisco jazz festival
paramount theater, oakland ca
5 november 1994

illinois jacquet big band:
illinois jacquet, david glasser, julian pressley, art daniels,
john simon, tom olin, irvin stokes, riley mullins, ravi best, mark mcgowan,
eddie bert, andrew lippman, charles stephens, larry ham,
fred hunter, clyde luca

01 tuning, stage announcer randall klein, then willie monroe 02:07
02 jacquet announcement/tickle toes 08:20
03 jacquet announcement/smooth sailing 07:53
04 jacquet announcement/robbin’s nest 04:54
05 jacquet announcement/one more for diz/jacquet announcement 07:34
06 jacquet announcement/body and soul 06:53
07 jacquet announcement/stompin’ at the savoy/jacquet announcement 05:20
08 jacquet announcement/on the sunny side of the street 07:03
09 jacquet announcement/three buckets of jive 09:22

tt 59:28

– a “teddy ballgame” dat soundboard master

recording info:
soundboard > dat master @ 16bit/44.1khz
– tdk dc-4 90m dds

processing:
dat master > tascam da302 > jb3 > adobe audition > izotope ozone 7 > cdwav > tlh flac 8

these are 16bit/44.1khz flac files.

comments:
lineup and setlist per comments on the dime tracker.


sample: t06 body and soul.mp3
download: IllinoisJacquet_1994-11-05_ParamountTheater_OaklandCA.zip