Count Basie - Count Basie Live - 1938 At The Famous Door, NYC

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:47
Size: 175,8 MB
Art: Front

(1:58) 1. Intro - Time Out
(1:41) 2. One Hour
(6:59) 3. Jumpin' At The Woodside
(3:13) 4. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
(4:00) 5. King Porter Stomp
(3:04) 6. OH! Lady Be Good
(1:00) 7. Everybody Loves My Baby
(4:07) 8. Intro - King Porter Stomp
(4:45) 9. John's Idea
(3:56) 10. Nagasaki
(3:08) 11. Doggin' Around
(4:25) 12. Wo-Ta-Ta
(3:03) 13. Yeah Man
(2:26) 14. Out The Window
(5:12) 15. Introduction - Every Tub
(2:25) 16. Song Of The Wanderer
(4:34) 17. Flat Foot Floogie
(3:37) 18. OH! Lady Be Good
(3:08) 19. Boogie Woogie Blues
(5:56) 20. One O'Clock Jump

The Basie band, with Harry James as the guest soloist and new arrival Harry Edison in the lineup, rocked New York's 52nd Street. The band is captured here in six late-night CBS broadcasts in the midst of its first big year of success, in an engagement that was supposed to last six weeks and ended up running four months, before an audience so taken with the group's sound that they willingly moved out onto the sidewalk while the group opened up to full volume for these broadcasts. There's hardly a note out of place, and the band shows its stuff behind renditions of "Jumping at the Woodside," "King Porter Stomp," and "One O'Clock Jump" (a killer finale) clocking in at between five and seven minutes with extended solos, double the length of their records of this era. Basie's piano gets some of the spotlight in a bracing version of "Lady Be Good." The fidelity is good to very good, and only "Everybody Loves My Baby" (a great number) is, alas, incomplete, a result of a transcription disc that was never found. That flaw aside, it is a release like this that transcends any of the criticism of the digital medium put simply, it's only the existence of digital audio and digital editing that permitted an engineer to remove more than 200 scratches per second from the original transcription discs that this CD came from.~ Bruce Eder https://www.allmusic.com/album/count-basie-live%21-1938-at-the-famous-door-nyc-mw0000982377

Count Basie Live -1938 At The Famous Door, NYC

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The Bill Evans Guitar Project - Echoes of Bill

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 25:10
Size: 58,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:11) 1. Bill's Hit Tune
(4:57) 2. Children's Play Song
(3:48) 3. Twelve Tone Tune
(6:06) 4. Re: Person I Knew
(5:07) 5. Show Type Tune

On July 2, 2000 John Hebert, Bruce Hall, Rez Abbasi and I got together to play some Bill Evans tunes in Bruce Hall's Brooklyn home studio. Bruce was recording into a now-obsolete digital recording platform (mini disc) at the time, there was a lot of mic bleed, small room, mini-disc....it wasn't Avatar. Despite this the end product sounds remarkably good. Bruce did some beautiful playing and some beautiful engineering here. As far as any of us can remember we just got together to record in this two guitar configuration that one time although we had all played together on many different gigs and recording projects...in a lot of ways New York was and is a small town. We were pretty much reading through some Evans tunes, coming up with quick arrangements, recording and moving on to the next tune. It's got a really nice vibe and for all you guitar players, Rez is absolutely burning.

We met at Bruce's house, read through some tunes, hung out afterward, did a lot of bullshitting and for the next 20 years didn't give the recording much thought, if any. Then...about a year ago Bruce remixed the tunes we recorded and sent us all a copy. It was an emotional experience for me to hear this so many years later and I think for the others as well. All the great memories I have of playing with these stellar musicians, all the miles between then and now, the gratitude that I felt and still feel to these musicians that I admire and respect for including me and for the commitment, heart, soul and talent they put into any and all music that they make.I think you can hear all that in this recording. We got it mastered through Gene Paul at GandJ Audio Gene and Joel Kerr did a freaking great job on that.Huge thanks to Bruce Hall for his hosting, playing and engineering.https://thebillevansguitarproject.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-bill

Personnel: Rez Abbasi - Guitar ; Bruce Hall - Drums; John Hébert - Bass; Bruce Saunders - Guitar

Echoes of Bill

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