bertrand

Interesting - the Weather Report in Berlin 1975 is from the same concert that was released on CD/DVD, but there are some tracks here not on the CD and vice versa.

Thank you so much!!!

It is a very good record! I believe Melissa Aldana has ben replaced by Nicole Glover. At first it was kind of a rumor, but I read an official statement somewhere.

And I as well. I am assuming I will be wearing a mask in public at least until New Year 2022.

I thought it did not come out at the time due to phasing problems with the drums, same as Witch Doctor. RVG had a little trouble with getting Blakey's drums right. Anyone else heard this story? I doubt I am making it up. Phasing is perhaps not the right word.

Thank you! He speculates that the veteran players may have tried to protect their turf but certainly does not give specific examples and I don't hear it. Would love some examples. Lee does seem to have taken credit for Nutville on the Monday Night at Birdland date, although it is not clear that Brooks is the composer (no copyright). Curtis Fuller was asked, and he seemed to think it was a take-off on Sonny Red's Bluesville. Hmm...

Can you elaborate on this?

How do I find his YouTube channel?

None of the above. I just know he has it and got it digitized. Which I wanted to make sure he did before sending the tape to anyone. What is going to happen next, I don't know.

I am discovering so much more music has been recorded than we realize, that at this point all bets are off. In fact, a guy I know just coughed up a 1970 Mobley tape and got it digitized. He had been sitting on it for years. With Bill Hardman and Stanley Cowell.

The bootleg had some solos that were edited out on the official record.

Presumed unrecorded.

I am in, thanks! Please tell UCLA how much this is appreciated!

There are so many private tapes out there. So glad Gene went this route for all jazz fans to enjoy! I would do this for Left Bank if it were up to me. A lot of those are sub-par audio quality, by design. The artists were told that the recordings were 'for the archives'. This site is an 'archive'. Someone's basement or a record label vault - not an archive. Stanford has a Monterey jazz archive. I love the principle of this, but you can only audition on-site, which I totally understand but am of course frustrated by. I plan to drop in if I ever do go back to California. Bertrand.

Thanks. So one less reason to get the box instead of the downloads.

Circle in the Square is by Joe Farrell.

The heads are edited to be incomplete, that is how they are skirting copyright!

Yes, that's it. It could be someone else playing it but is vey characteristic of Airto. In any case, I hear it and I doubt it is Cobham or Mouzon playing it. So there is an uncredited percussionist, at least to my ears. The Left Bank Yearbook says that Hank Jones was playing with Elvin on 4/1/73, but I don't hear a piano. Maybe he cancelled. Edit: OK, he is on the later tracks. Interesting addition to an otherwise piano-less band. Are some of these MP3s edited?

Something sounded weird... On the third piece, which is Storm. I hear those kind of Bird sounds he makes on Live Evil. I could be wrong.

Don Alias was also on the sessions. I did not know Airto was only overdubbed. Burton was also on the unissued Shorter record. Maybe it is not Airto, but it sounds like the kind of sounds he made on Live/Evil. What do you guys think? You mean this disclaimer? The Jazz History Database is a service of the Massachusetts Association for Jazz Education. All materials have been processed and edited by faculty and students of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. All items are used with the permission of contributors and are edited to remove copyrighted content for which permission is not explicitly provided. The content in this site is provided for non-profit personal or scholarly use. No content may be resold, republished, or otherwise used for profit without the express permission of its respective copyright owner.

Weather Report 'Improvisation 1' is 'Storm' from Odyssey of Iska. I hear Airto on this track. and I think it is Mouzon, not Cobham. Could these be out-takes from the sessions for the first record, or maybe rehearsals? The last tune is another take of 'Storm'.

That has to be 1971, not 1970. I assume these cannot be downloaded.

I just got the Japanese reissue of Archie Shepp's On This Night, but it does not have the bonus tracks. Bummer. I see they are in the 'Archie Shepp - 5 Complete Albums' box which I had not considered getting because I had all the rest. Turns out the box is cheap. Another option is to download the whole thing at Amazon. I did see that the box has a live Version of 'Hambone'. Is this the version from The New Wave In Jazz concert? Thanks, Bertrand.

Very nice that he did this! There are a few things to add.

Freddie told me at some point he got an axe. I wish I could have gotten the story on tape. I think he got himself banned from Blue Note forever.