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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Jimmy Smith Jam Session - Jazz Fest Chicago 1981






















Photo by Jan Persson

Jimmy Smith Jam Session 
Chicago Jazz Festival 
Chicago, IL (USA)
September 5, 1981 [Saturday]

Bill Hardman - trumpet
Lou Donaldson - alto sax
Junior Cook - tenor sax
Jimmy Smith - organ
Ray Crawford - guitar
Kenny Dixon - drums

CD1/46:13
1. unknown (blues improvisation) (18:48)
2. Organ Grinder Swing (7:40)
3. Summertime (10:19)
4. unknown (blues improvisation) (9:26) [inc, fade-out]

CD2/39:12
5. Ballad Medley: Laura [LD] > My Funny Valentine [BH] > Lover Man [JC] (11:02)
6. Satin Doll (12:41)
7. Lift Every Voice and Sing (3:51)
8. The Sermon (11:38)

TT: 85:25

No lineage information, dime-seed (radio, sounds like several generations of tape/K7)


:: ubu edits (2014-03-30) ::

Lineage: FM > ? > FLAC (dime) > TLH > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH > FLAC (8,asb)

Edits in Cool Edit Pro:
- left channel +3dB
- all track marks adjusted (most were too late)
- fade-in at beginning of #3 (there's a rough cut at end of #2)
- fade-in at beginning of disc 2
- deleted silence at beginning and end of discs


:: ubu notes ::

Most tunes morph into the next one, setting track markers isn't that simple, but in almost all cases, the existing marks were clearly too late, into the first bar(s) of the following title.

There's a short radio voice-over around 3:40 into #7 that suggests this originates from a live broadcast - but all other radio announcements/intros/outros were deleted.

Track 4 is incomplete, slowly fades out.


Saturday, April 05, 2014

Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land Quintet 1969/70

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Thanks go out to those who shared this stuff in 2005 and to prof. goody who fixed the Hamburg 1969-08 files and brought them back in the loop!

These are all FLAC files, except for some minor editing in the Stockholm set mentioned, it's the files I got, back in the day (and put onto back-up DVDs, from where I grabbed them again).


Bobby Hutcherson/Harold Land Quintet
Juan-les-Pins Festival, Antibes (France)
July 26, 1969

Bobby Hutcherson - vibes
Harold Land - tenor sax
Stanley Cowell - piano
Reggie Johnson - bass
Joe Chambers - drums

1. Same Shame (Hutcherson) 14:14
2. The Peace-Maker (Land) 13:57
3. Spiral (Chambers) 15:21
4. Blues Mind Matter (Hutcherson) 16:29

TT: 60:02

Lineage (EZT/Dime): ??? > my CD-R copy > EAC > mkwACT > you [SHN]
ubu (2014-04-03): SHN > TLH > FLAC (8,asb)

Seeder's comment (from EZT, 2005):
Another amazing show from this group, this one just recently resurfaced. I posted the 7/28 show a few weeks ago and there was such good response I had to put this one up too. Just got this and have only listened to it a couple of times myself. Thought it was recorded from a radio broadcast but now I'm wondering if it's a soundboard. The quality is certainly an A and it's entirely possible that they could have recorded this intending to release it. Lord knows there were several Hutcherson albums from this period that weren't released until the 80s. Who knows? Anyway, it's an incredible show, check it out.


Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land Quintet
Stockholm (Sweden)
July 28, 1969

Harold Land - tenor sax
Bobby Hutcherson - vibes
Stanley Cowell - piano
Reggie Johnson - bass
Joe Chambers - drums

[FM intro (0:11)]
1. Total Eclipse (21:06)
2. Theme from "Blow Up" (17:11)
3. The Peacemaker (13:25)
4. Man on Mercury (7:02)

TT: 58:29

Sound: A-/B+
Source: FM (came as SBD)
Lineage unknown
Additional Lineage #1 & FM Intro: FLAC > WAV > CoolEditPro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)


Edit: separated fm intro from #1 (11sec)

Note on this seed:
this show was erroneously seeded as 07-26 Antibes (FR), but it seems to be identical with the show usually given as 07-28 Stockholm.
date/location were given as:
   Juan-les-Pins, Antibes (FR), July 26, 1969
setlist was given as:
   1. Same Shame (or Total Eclipse?) (21:06)
   2. The Peacemaker (17:11)
   3. Spiral (13:25)
   4. Blues Mind Matter (7:02)


Bobby Hutcherson/Harold Land Quintet
Hamburg (Germany)
August 1969

Harold Land - tenor sax
Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone
Stanley Cowell - piano
Reggie Johnson - bass
Joe Chambers - drums

3. Same Shame > Blow Up (Hutcherson) 35:58
4. Oleo (Rollins) 7:17 [inc]

TT: 65:53

Sound: A/A-
Source (#3-4, maybe also #1-2): NDR broadcast
Lineage: FM > ? > CD-R > EAC > Goldwave > FLAC

goody: dBpowerAMP (FLAC-WAV) > Cool Edit Pro (Pitch Bender -80) > TLH (FLAC, sigs)

Pitch of the '69 set tracks were approximately 80 cents sharp.  Fixed and reFLACed with TLH by goody - 10/26/05


-- omitted (see older version) --

Harold Land - tenor sax
Bobby Hutcherson - vibes
Hal Galper - piano
Reggie Johnson - bass
Joe Chambers - drums

May 29, 1970
1. Four (Rollins) 11:58
2. Oleo (Rollins) 10:39 [inc]

(these two sets were initially shared on EZT/Dime together, the 1970 were okay as far as speed was concerned)


Bobby Hutcherson/Harold Land Quintet
Hamburg (Germany)
May 29, 1970 

Harold Land - tenor sax
Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone
Hal Galper - piano
Reggie Johnson - bass
Joe Chambers - drums

1. Four (Rollins) 11:58
2. Oleo (Rollins) 10:39 [inc]

TT: 22:38

Sound: A/A-
Source (#3-4, maybe also #1-2): NDR broadcast
Lineage: FM > ? > CD-R > EAC > Goldwave > FLAC

ubu (2014-04-03): EAC (secure) > FLAC (8)
_______________________________________________

NOTE: omitted Aug 1969 - see speed-fix!

original info for that part:

August 1969
3. Same Shame > Blow Up (Hutcherson) 35:58
4. Oleo (Rollins) 7:17 [inc]

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