Feb 042022
 

if you like arab influenced jazz — and i certainly do, with that different scale — have a look also at two other shows here, by sophie alour and by imbrahim maalouf.    i tend to think of this flavour of jazz as largely a french phenomenon (and there is a lot in france), but like most music, a pigeon hole doesn’t really work.

back in 2017, this was on the jazz serendipity live blog which seems to have disappeared, and is well worth re-posting here (btw, i think this was originally an unclewolfi share on dime).  btw, the first two tracks are from the la saboteuse cd, which i really enjoyed.


yazz ahmed’s family hafla
jazzfest berlin
haus der berliner festspiele, seitenbuehne
berlin, germany
04.nov.2016

yazz ahmed – tp,flh
george crowley – bcl
ralph wyld – vibes
naadia sheriff – p
dudley phillips – b
martin france – dr
corrina silvester – perc

01. jamil jamal (ahmed) 07:43
02. announcement yazz ahmed 01:36
03. la saboteuse (ahmed) 08:15
04. announcement yazz ahmed 00:31
05. paradise in the hold (ahmed) 10:02
06. announcement yazz ahmed 00:39
07. 2857 (ahmed) 03:14
08. lahan al mansour (ahmed) 03:01
09. whispering gallery (ahmed) 11:42
10. announcement yazz ahmed 01:12
11. organ eternal (barnet) 08:46
12. paradise in the hold (ahmed) [fade out] 01:30

source: dvb-s > techno trend tt-premium s2-6400 twin hd > hdd > nero wave editor > flac
(mpeg1 layer 2/320 kbps) [radio station – nordwestradio]


sample: t09 whispering gallery 192k.mp3
download: YazzAhmed_2016-11-04_BerlinGermany.zip

image:  from the photo gallery on yazz ahmed’s website, used without permission.

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.