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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Sonny Rollins - Arnhem 1967 - now on dime

Sonny Rollins w/Ruud Jacobs & Han Bennink in 1967 - an effin' great recording! No more words needed, check it out here:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=150873


Sonny Rollins in concert at the Greek Theater, Berkeley, California, sometime in the late '60s.
Photo courtesy of Lionel Lecoq


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So then, here's the great, GREAT concert from Sonny in Arnhem 1967. I tried doing some remastering but found the result not worthy enough, so what I seed here is just a fixed version (without duplications, one-channel-dropouts etc. - see notes for details), but with the same general sound as the previous re-seed, and in fact as the original seed I got it from.

This has been re-seeded by nocturnalnph a few days ago here, consider this an update for all the corrections, but as I said, not for sound:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=149504&hit=1

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In short:

* sound is fair enough! *
* Sonny is effin' hotter than hot! *
* Bennink is smokin'! *
* bass is audible, too! *
* THIS IS A MUST HAVE! *

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Sonny Rollins
Arnhem (NL), prob. Musis Sacrum
March 5, 1967 (or May 3, 1967?)

Sonny Rollins - tenor sax
Ruud Jacob - bass
Han Bennink - drums

CD1/61:29
1. Love Walked In (George & Ira Gershwin) 22:01
2. Four (Miles Davis) 26:15
3. My One And Only Love (Mellin-Wood)
> d-solo > Old Devil Moon (Lane-Harburg) 13:12 [cut]

CD2/72:32
1. They Can't Take That Away From Me (George & Ira Gerswhin)
> Sonnymoon For Two (Sonny Rollins) 13:27
2. On Green Dolphin Street (Kaper-Washington)
> There Will Never Be Another You (Warren-Gordon) 19:16
[fade-out/in just before applause @ 19:04]
3. Three Little Words (Kalmar-Ruby)
> unknown > unknown (21:28)
4. unknown (7:56) [cut in?]
5. St. Thomas (trad.-Rollnis) 10:14 [inc, fade-out]

TT: 134:02

Sound: B+
Original seed (ca. 2005?): no source/lineage info (vinyl bootleg)
Lineage: AUD(?) > ? > FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)


Edits:
- delete silence/noise before CD1#1
- moved mark CD1#1/2: +6sec
- copied right channel into left on CD1#2 (0:09-3:07) applied 3dB cut on left channel (copied part got much louder than the right channel originally was/is)
- deleted 0.4sec dropout @ 23:09 in CD1#1 (skip remains audible)
- deleted tiny dropout @ 24:02 in CD1#1 (skip remains audible)
- moved mark CD1#2/3: -1.5sec, deleted 0.1sec dropout
- copied right channel into left on CD1#3 (5:20-6:09, 7:08-8:53, 11:22-11:25) applied 3dB cut on left channel (copied part got much louder than the right channel originally was/is)
- separated CD1#4 from CD1#3
- spliced intro of CD2#1 (a bit too loud) from duplicated partial version of same tune that followed CD1#3 (after the 13:12 cut), deleted duplicated track (7:34, faded at end)
- copied right channel into left on CD2#1 (6:15-8:21) applied 3dB cut on left channel (copied part got much louder than the right channel originally was/is)
- moved mark CD2#1/2: -1.6sec, delected 0.1sec dropout
- deleted tiny dropout CD2#2 12:17
- copied right channel into left on CD2#2 (17:43-18:14, 18:41-19:21) applied 3dB cut on left channel (copied part got much louder than the right channel originally was/is)
- deleted last 19sec of CD2#2 (duplication of beginning of CD2#3
- deleted first 5.4sec of CD2#3 (duplication of applause of CD2#2)
- copied right channel into left on CD2#3 (0:00-0:06) applied 3dB cut on left channel (copied part got much louder than the right channel originally was/is)
- moved mark CD2#3/4: +38sec, deleted 0.1sec dropout around old mark, deleted noisy applause and silence (18.6sec), added fade-out
- deleted last 7.5sec of CD2#4 (duplication)
- moved mark CD2#4/5: +9sec, deleted 0.1sec dropout around old mark
- deleted silence at end of CD2#5 (4sec)

Notes:
- CD1#2 came as "Four - Don't Stop the Carnival", but it's mainly "Four" with Sonny quoting various other tunes in a free-flowing improvisation
- CD1#3 was followed by an incomplete version of CD2#1, the intro was longer on CD1#3, I spliced that onto CD2#1 and deleted the rest
- CD2#3 came as just "Three Little Words" - I am not sure if there are two or just one other tunes following or what they are.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

good work!!
your fmp link is wrong.
correct is the following url:
http://www.fmp-label.de

ubu said...

Thanks for that correction - there's a fight going on and I didn't notice the "wrong" party got the old/"right" address...

Anonymous said...

hello ubu,

I have been searching for these Sonny Rollins & Han Bennink recordings for ages, so I'm very happy that you have posted them.

However the problem now is that dimeadozen doesn't accept new members at the moment, so I'm not able to download hem. Which, off course is very frustrating, now that I have found them at your site.

Is there another way to get them?
Is it possible to post them at: https://www.yousendit.com/
or at http://www.rapidshare.com/

Or can you contact me so that we can talk about another possibility to get them?

My email is xorluc@xs4all.nl

All the best,

Luc Houtkamp

SOTISE said...

luc's right ubu
its fucking inpossible to sign on with dime, never any newslots and ive been trying, ever since you left a message on my blog, its a real pity, so basically you are an index for those who are already dime users.
why not throw us other poor motherfuckers a bone once in a while eh
im not shitting you man, ive tried 30 times,no dice.

ubu said...

Alright then - I'll put up an MP3 version of this one, but it might take me a few days to do it!