Joni Mitchell
Playboy Jazz Festival
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, California
Friday Night
June 15 1979
On a June weekend in 1979 in Los Angeles, Playboy presented a spectacular ìone-shot” jazz festival at the venerable Hollywood Bowl.
The artist line-up seemed like a ìWho’s Who” of the jazz world’s greats:
Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock,
Willie Bobo, Art Blakey, Ray Brown, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon,
Freddie Hubbard, Gerry Mulligan and many more.
In his welcoming remarks to that one-of-a-kind gathering, PLAYBOY founder and then Chairman Hugh M. Hefner said,
ìMusic critic Leonard Feather called the first Playboy Jazz Festival (in 1959 in Chicago) one of the greatest weekends in the history of jazz,
and I hope and expect that this weekend at the Hollywood Bowl will be remembered in the same way.”
This is part of the opening night of the second Playboy Jazz Festival
After this weekend it became an annual event
Joni Mitchell – guitar and vocals
Herbie Hancock – keyboards
Michael Brecker- sax
Don Alias- percussion
Gene Perla – bass
- Bill Cosby intro
- Coyote
- A Chair In The Sky
- Dreamland
- Black Crow
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
- The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines
- Bill Cosby outro
[33:51]
This is another Los Angeles Tape eXchange Recording (LAX)
Recorded by John Musgrave with Sue getting the equipment into the venue
Source:
2 Sennheiser MKH 404 tu microphones > TEAC PC-10 w/ Dolby
Copy:(1980)
Akai GXC 570 D2 (w/ Dolby and Bias @ 70usec) > TEAC AN 180 Dolby > Revox B-77 @ 3 3/4 ips
Transfer:(2015)
Revox B77 > Teac AN 60 Dolby > Korg mr2000-s @ 1 bit 5.6 MHz DSDIFF
Mastering:
AudioGate (24-96) > Adobe Audition 3.0 & iZotope RX4A (prep and track splits) > AudioGate Aqua (16-44) > TLH (flac level 8)
song information embedded with Stamp ID3 tag editor
Tape recorder paused between some songs
Thanks to Eric for the wonderful artwork.
For historical reference only and not intended for resale or any commercial use.
enjoy
-M- (February 2016)
A FLYING M PRODUCTION