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the John Abercrombie Quartet
John Abercrombie: guitar
Richie Beirach: piano
George Mraz: bass
Peter Donald: drums

Lulu White's Jazz and Supper Club
3 Appleton St. (Boston's South End)
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
May 10, 1980 (maybe May 9th? Either Fri. or Sat.)
recording quality: B+
performance quality: A (very nice show)
source: master audience tape
thanks to jabazz and rommedoe for help with setlist
total runtime for 3 sets: 150:43 (minutes/seconds)

1st set 69:56
1: blue wolf 18:18
2: foolish door 13:49 (1st tape flip after song)
3: Richie talks, stray 13:48
4: blues 12:12
5: riddles 11:49

2nd set 61:21
6: arcade 15:46
7: April's fool 18:22
8: nightlake 27:13 (spliced at 12:03 and 12:15, tape flip)

3rd set 19:26 (1 track, aborted by closing curfew, apparently)
9: there is no greater love 19:26

lineage:
unknown microphones (good ones) >
Sony TC-158 cassette deck, dolby off >
Maxell XL-I 90 min. master cassettes >
played on tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
do not sell this recording.
share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.

this recording is a full night of music
except a few seconds for 1 tape flip in track 7.

comments:
there is some question as to which night this was recorded.
As much as I like John Abercrombie's music alot, this was the first
time I ever saw Abercrombie without the company of Jack DeJohnette,
and beside that, this is probably my favorite Abercrombie band that
doesn't have Jack in it.
I wish I could have seen at least 1 more night of it, probably some
different songs because Abercrombie knows many good ones (not just his own)
and is a splendidly talented guitarist. This band plays a very nice concert
here, I think this is the Friday night show (maybe Saturday?). There's
just 9 songs here, and only one (track 8) is cut (twice briefly) on
the master tape. only a few seconds are missing there.)
I have spliced it together into 1 track.
This recording has been circulated some on cassette, but 2008 was the
first time I've ever seeded it and I've remastered it, taken out some
mike knocks, and balanced out the channels with normalization, also
applied some ICPVR (individual clap peak volume reduction) in some
parts when loud claps obscure quiet music. At one point early in this
show Richie Beirach asks people not to talk loudly when they're playing
because some of the music is very quiet. I haven't listened to this
very much because I don't like to play my master tapes too much, and
now that's not a problem any more with this recording. It's one of my
own 10 best jazz recordings of all time, for both a nice recording and
fine music, no hiss to speak of, most of the audience noise/talking is
between songs or at tolerably non-overbearing volume (that's what the
ICPVR is for, epecially music like this.) It's not all quiet music and
I didn't recall any weak spots in it, either at the show or remastering
it. I can tell by the sound of it, this was made with electret-condenser
mikes of some kind.
the third set seems more like an encore than a set, but curfew forced
it to go shorter than I thought it was meant to. Is it a "You are There
Production?" I'd say it's at least close to one, but you be the judge,
and if you choose to judge this, keep in mind, a "You are There Production"
means it sounds like you're right there. So too is a sometimes talky
(and fortunately not too clappy) packed house. All 4 nights (thursday, friday,
saturday and sunday, may 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th) were sold out,
or close to. I wasn't real close up, but on a raised level above many of the
others so only some of their talk and claps come through on this. Not
too many, and not very prominently any more, after about 3 hours of ICPVR.
This was one recording that really needed and deserved that ICPVR treatment.
If you can't tell that this recording has had any kind of processing at all,
that's good. That's what I'm trying for, to only perform minimal alteration
to any recording and maintain its continuity the best I can.
I don't think this needs any more audio alteration at all.
just to be enjoyed.

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