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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Sonny Rollins - Arnhem 1967

Sonny Rollins w/Ruud Jacobs & Han Bennink in 1967 - an effin' great recording! No more words needed, check it out here - yeah, right HERE ON THIS BLOG NOW! Check the comments for the links!


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.

14 comments:

ubu said...

This is MP3 @ 320 kbs

File 1:

http://rapidshare.com/files/38335667/Sonny_Rollins_1967-03-05_Arnhem_-_MP3.part1.rar

File 2 is still being upped - check again later to find the link here in the comments!

Hope you enjoy!
And spread word among the non-dimers!

ubu said...

And here's part 2:

http://rapidshare.com/files/38344411/Sonny_Rollins_1967-03-05_Arnhem_-_MP3.part2.rar

enjoy!

SOTISE said...

ubu ,
many thanks for upping this
much appreciated!

Anonymous said...

what sotise said!

Anonymous said...

RS still ative, Mr Ubu!
Thanks heavens and you too, of course!
rollins was a jazz icon of our youth! He deserves all respect and admiration!
Lets dl them!

ceb said...

I look forward to this. Thank you very much,

HungryFreaks said...

Thanks a lot, another great Sonny Rollins!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for all the music! By the way, according to http://spotlight.radio6.nl/2008/05/30/ruud-jacobs-in-spotlight-2/, the correct date is May 3, 1967. It took a lot of digging to be sure!

ubu said...

Hi Janet!

Thanks a lot for your detective work! Much appreciated!

Unknown said...

can you reupload part 2? It isn't working. I'd appreciate it, thanks.

TK said...

Wow what a fascinating find. I cant get the 2nd link to work...could you repost? The 1st works fine. Thanks so much in advance!

ubu said...

I think I'll rather re-up as FLAC later on...

Unknown said...

Any chance you can re-up this as a .rar? It seems that the link is expired on Rapidshare.

Thanks so much. Can't wait to hear this!

moha said...

new flac post at Slant's:

http://www.embedupload.com/?d=3ZMDZHEGYW
http://www.embedupload.com/?d=7XEXMMJVEF
http://www.embedupload.com/?d=9INKFSC2FI
http://www.embedupload.com/?d=4SJRYTFSKC