Miles Davis – Singen, Germany (07/14/90)

Miles Davis Septet
1990-07-14
Hohentwiel
Singen, Germany

Composite FM recording, 91:41, A+/A

The Miles Davis Group, Swingin’ in Singen, the Complete Concert Broadcasts of the July 14, 1990, Concert.
Composed and restored from 3 separate FM recordings of the same 2 broadcasts, produced by flambay and plaz.

There are two complete broadcasts here, Part 1 and Part 2 of the concert, sourced from three off-air analog cassettes with all 3 sources being recorded from same two FM broadcast. The two parts the concert were broadcast as two episodes of a weekly jazz radio show, a week apart.

Source Lineages
:
source a (main source):
2cdr, fm, A+/A
fm > Mcas > 2cdr > wav > Soundforge 9: speed correction, re-tracking, adding patches from other 2 sources > flac TLH lvl8 w/SBA (621 MB)

source b (B05 Tutu) from CD bootleg: “Sing In Singen”, REGENCY, REG010
1cdr, cdb>cdr, 70:56, A
fm > Mcas > ? > cdb > cdr > wav > Soundforge 9: speed correction, extracting patches and merging with main source

source c (B06 closing announcement):
2cdr, fm, B+
fm > cas1 > 2cdr > wav > Soundforge 9: speed correction, extracting patch and merging with main source

The Miles Davis Group:
Miles Davis (tp); Kenny Garrett (as, fl); Joe “Foley” McCreary (lead-b); Kei Akagi (keyb); Richard Patterson (el-b); Ricky Wellman (d); Erin Davis (perc)

Broadcast Part 1 [44:48]:
{source a}
A00 radio announcement 1 (0:13)
A01 Perfect Way (5:38)
A02 New Blues [Star People] )9:05)
A03 Hannibal (11:01)
A04 The Senate / Me and You (11:46)
A05 Jilli (6:34)
A06 radio announcement 2 (0:19)

Broadcast Part 2 [46:52]:
{source a}
B00 radio announcement 3 (0:42)
B01 Human Nature 14:03
B02 Time After Time 9:35
B03 In the Night 4:12
B04 Wrinkle 6:59 ∞∞∞ switch to source b at 6:57
{source b}
B05 Tutu 10:43 ∞∞∞ switch to source c at 10:37
{source c}
B06 radio announcement 4 0:36

Total time of this combo version (without announcement tracks): 89.50 min

speed correction (flambay) on orig. tracks (source a):
Part 1 Tracks 01-02: -30cts
Part 1 Track 03: -35cts
Part 1 Tracks 04-07: -40cts
Part 2 Tracks 01-02: -40cts
Part 2 Track 03: -35cts
Part 2 Tracks 04-05: -30cts

Additional Notes (not found in the info file):
This is a 2-part concert broadcast reconstructed from 3 different broadcast recording sources. All the sources are FM recordings of varying lineage. It’s not a Frankenstein’s monster however. There are no rough or jarring changes in sound, and, if you do notice the slight sonic changes at the patch boundaries, they are brief and transitory as you will again soon be overwhelmed by this great band.

This is the complete concert sourced from three, restored and speed-corrected analog FM broadcast recordings. It is a composite of the best extant segments of two different post-concert broadcasts, above referred to as Part 1 and Part 2.

The restored radio announcements have been included for historical accuracy, but you may play it, seamlessly, without these interruptions if you prefer by excluding those tracks from your playlist.

If you don’t have the direct dL you should grab it: It sounds great, brought back to life by flambay’s elbow grease and magic Pixy dust.

This version has not been altered since it was first seeded on DIME in April of 2010.

There is a partial, digital, rebroadcast recording available via the original broadcaster which is super clean and bright, but no digital sources were included herein.

There’s no mention in the original seed info file of my audio restoration of the main source and that of the 2 patch sources before I handed them off to flambay. The restoration work includes the following analyses and related post audio restoration work for all the material included in this seed (and then some). Paraphrasing my notes:

DC offset corrected all tracks in all 3 sources
manual repair of clicks. pop, crackle and glitches
channel offset correction (all sources exhibited the 2.5 to 5 ms channel offset typical of FM transmissions (and any recordings of them)
repaired, attenuated or ‘removed’ extraneous, non-musical sonic artifacts
overall gain balancing with local corrections
clipped peak restoration
final channel balancing, gain corrections, and other local adjustments, repairs and corrections

Reseeded* on TTD, June 15, 2019.

The foregoing text and notes have been corrected, changed and additional information provided about this audio restoration project. These changes do not appear in the info file contained in this seed which has not changed since the original share. -plaz