Tag: cbs studios

Miles Davis – New York, NY (03/04/49)

All-Star jam session
03-04-1949
CBS-TV Studios
New York, New York

Project ID – 79

Source: TV Broadcast
Lineage: WCBS-TV recording (Adventures in Jazz) > ?? > cd (Peter Losin’s Archive ) >
cd duplicated (burner to burner) > eac > flac (lvl8)

Miles Davis (tpt); Max Kaminsky (tpt); Kai Winding (tb); Will Bradley (tb);
Charlie Parker (as); Joe Marsalla (cl); Unknown (b); Max Roach (d);
Gordon “Specs” Powell (d); Ann Hathaway Ann Baker; William Williams (ann)

disc 1

d1t01. Introduction
d1t02. Anthropology
d1t03. Introduction
d1t04. Bop City
d1t05. Introduction
d1t06. I Get a Kick Out of You
d1t07. Introduction
d1t08. Big Foot/

Notes:

  • d1t08 is incomplete.
  • The sound is a little muffled and distant, with some light static. Still listenable.
    Pretty good considering the origin was a TV broadcast from 58 years ago. d1t08 was
    definetely the cake taker in this performance.
  • This is a very interesting recording, a real good example of the period, splitting
    at the seams with short cameo’s from some real legends.
  • I believe the TLH reading below shows lossy due to the fact that this was an early
    television broadcast and the wave lengths are severly limited. I don’t believe that MP3’s
    were a factor.
  • “Recorded for the WCBS-TV show Adventures in Jazz. Davis plays only on the “Big Foot”
    jam, a bop-vs.-Dixieland duel with Kaminsky. His range is impressive here, just as it
    is on the recordings a couple months later from the Paris Festival International de Jazz.
    ” – Credit to Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
  • “At this time Davis was a member of the Tadd Dameron Tentet, in the midst of a
    month-long engagement (February 12-March 16) at the Royal Roost on Broadway.” – Credit to
    Peter Losin, http://www.plosin.com/
  • QC done by Bgreen

Grateful Dead – Los Angeles, CA (01/18/69) – “Playboy After Dark”

Grateful Dead
1969-01-18
Playboy After Dark
CBS Studios in West Hollywood, CA

Source: DVD audio from U.K. Mutt’s release
(VHS master tape of a 1992 rebroadcast> audio processed in Soundforge 6.0,
48kHz, 1536kbps wav, mono) extracted to 44.1kHz, 1411kbps wav with DVD
Audio Extractor> tracks cut with GoldWave> compressed to flac with EasyFlac
level 5. No SBE’s verified with shntool. No other manipulation of audio done.

–Setlist–
101-d1t01 – Hefner interviews Garcia
102-d1t02 – Mountains of the Moon
103-d1t03 – St. Stephen (fades out)
104-d1t04 – Closing / Turn On Your Lovelight (segment)

Known flaws:
splice in St Stephen “Lady//arrow, sharp and narrow”

Somewhere I have a copy of this show on VHS.  I’m sure you can find it on Youtube or something.  Its all fairly ridiculous actually with Hugh Hefner asking Garcia stupid question (though Garcia answers in his typical thoughtful, classic way.)  The myth is that the band spiked the drinks with acid and that halfway through St. Stephen one of the bunnies took off her top and started dancing causing the show to cut to commercial.

We get a little of Turn On Your Lovelight for the closing credits but not enough to make it interesting.  The real reason to get this show is for the really quite lovely version of “Mountains on the Moon.”  Its probably my favorite version of the song ever.