Billy Cobham/ George Duke Band
Billy Cobham- drums
George Duke- keyboards and vocals
John Scofield- guitar
Alphonso Johnson- bass
Roxy Theater
Los Angeles, Ca.
December 31, 1976
performance quality: B to B+, it varies some
recording quality: B+, last song not quite as good
but the difference is not very noticable.
source: FM broadcast tape (unknown gen./lineage)
setlist: I need help with this. set and concert not found on etree.
the only songs I could title here are balls to the wall (5),
and giant child within us ego (7)
runtime: 83:21 (10 tracks, one is band intros.)
comments:
this appears to be a full set of BCGD band with the same lineup
as heard on their live album (that was recorded in Montreux, Switz.)
and I didn't see it on the dime tracker (including dead torrents) so
I'm sharing my copy. There's probably a better one but this sounds decent,
it comes from jazzdave and his stuff is always of low-generation source
if not a master. I had to patch 4 short sections in the last track when
the right channel cuts out in the source (it's not tape dropouts, there
are a couple of those too but nothing real annoying or lasting, most of
it sounds clean for an unknown-gen. recording.). I had to splice the
tape flip, not sure if any music is missing, but I don't think so, it
was during a pause in the action. the first song may cut in slightly,
if so only a few seconds missing, and none of the other songs sound cut
to my ears. jazzdave is also good about minimal interruptions in his
recordings and he's a rather big Billy fan. thank you for this and
the San Francisco 74 one (end on the same tape) which I'll seed with
this one (in a seperate torrent).
kinebee recently brought us the BCGD band with Doug Rauch from Dallas
in 75.
This show has Alphonso Johnson, and his sound is very different, funkier.
some might like Doug better but I like both of them. If you dig Doug more,
the 74 one also has him playing bass.
do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
And do beware some listeners may want to be
forewarned there is a "cheese jazz alert" here,
fortunately only for a couple of the songs,
although most of this concert is pretty good music.
(Ricola gave me this idea when I posted a Hammer/Williams
show that included some of that, cheese
jazz and he said he was afraid
it would be supermarket music.
this is a very legitimate concern,
even with some of the greatest players in the world.)