elvin jones quartet – xx october 1972, jam session, french television

here’s a quick upload of a short show by one of my favorite drummers.  it’s demuxed audio from an ancient recording from french tv.  the audio specs are, in my view, a bit dubious, but the sound is quite good (as is the lineup).  so who knows?

speaking of lineup, the announcer at the beginning refers to “three young musicians” supporting jones…  steve grossman was 22, dave liebman was 27 and gene perla was 33.  a posting at houseofdrumming.com says that this was “the live at the lighthouse group”.

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elvin jones quartet
jazz session – french tv
29 may 1973

elvin jones – drums
dave liebman – saxophones, flute
steve grossman – saxophones
gene perla – bass

1 00:00 intro (ann. talks over the first few notes of “the children)
2 00:42 the children / merry-go-round (keisho)
3 13:23 yesterdays (j.kern)
4 26:45 soultrane (j.coltrane)
5 37:13 clapping until end

tt 37:55

source: dvd trade > hdd via dvd shrink > dime > you
demux: as above > ffmpeg (demux) > .mp2 audio file (untracked)
broadcast: 29 may 1973

performance date (from comment on blog)
29 may 1973 is the first broadcast date. actually this show was recorded late october 1972
in paris. on 20 october they played at warsaw jazz jamboree and two pieces (yesterdays and
children’s merry-go-round) were issued on polskie nagrania muza sxl 0929 (various artists –
jazz jamboree ’72). dave liebman left elvin quartet to join miles davis band in january 1973.

audio demux (same as audio in original .vob files) per mediainfo
audio: mp2; cbr 320 kbps; sampling 48.0 khz; 2 channels; lossy; duration 37:56

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sample: (none)
download: ElvinJonesQuartet_1973-05-29_JazzSession_FrenchTV_demux.zip
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