A night at the Hynes Auditorium
With (in order of appearance)
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes
the Buddy Rich Big Band
McCoy Tyner Group
Hynes Auditorium
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
January 15, 1978
These were originally posted all together in 1 torrent.
this post includes just the Buddy Rich Big Band set.
the others are being posted seperately this time.
performance quality: B+
recording quality: B
source: master audience tape (LLS, BRBB) 1st generation audience tape (MT)
LLS runtime: 60:29
BRBB runtime: 50:32
setlist:
1: time out (cuts in) 6:28
2: goodbye yesterday (spliced) 5:53
3: joy spring 6:45
4: machine 4:01
5: birdland (spliced) 7:05
6: channel one suite 20:19 (previously in 2 tracks of 10:22 and 9:57)
MT runtime: 46:33
lineage: unknown mikes (decent ones) >
JVC KD-2 cassette deck > (I think...? not sure about this, am sure it's w/o Dolby)
recycled pre-recorded master cassettes (normal bias/EQ setting) >
soundforge 4.5 (WAV) > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
mastered and remastered by glasnostrd19. reseeded (sort of, with setlist)
January 2009. reseeded again (sort of) with track times and a
flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's.
Do not sell this recording.
share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
don't try to get rich off Buddy...
(except in spirit)
comments:
This was a 3 band event this night of Boston Globe Jazz Festival.
This event would later grow into a multi-day long affair, but at this time
I think it was just 3 bands and 1 night. I saw and recorded them all. LLS
and McCoy's set were mastered on a TDK- AD 90 min. cassette, McCoy's later
transferred to reel. The Buddy Rich was recorded on some cheaper brand of tape
but still sounds decent. The other sets sound better. I think I still had the
JVC KD-2 portable deck at this time, it was before I got the Sony 158 that
was used for many of my masters. Not sure what mikes were used, whatever I
could find lying around, basically. There is just 1 tape flip splice in MT
show in track 7, only a few seconds missing there. The splice in track 8 is
due to about a 7 second section that was accidentally erased with something
else that I had to remove. Fortunately, neither of these splices are very
jarring, it is just about the whole set. I applied alot of ICPVR (individual
clap peak volume reduction) between the songs to make it a smoother listen,
and balanced the levels out, reduced a few mike knocks, otherwise this is
the raw master, no noise reduction was used in the mastering or remastering
of this set. You don't hear much live stuff from Cosmic Echoes, they're a good
soul/ jazz/ rhythm & blues band with a nice energy. I think only one person
heard the 1st remaster I made of this (at his request), I was a little more
meticulous to get the loud claps not so loud on this one, which is my 1st ever
master seed of this show (in mid- 2008).
That was a first time seed of a good band nobody hears much from any more.
Although LLS was the opening set, it was also the longest, and probably the
cleanest recording since this set comes from the original TDK master cassette.
The McCoy set is a reel 1st gen copy of a TDK master, and the Buddy Rich was
recorded on poor man's tape so not quite as clear and has a couple of flip cuts,
but all three are enjoyable sound quality for 78 audience recordings. The Hynes
Auditorium did not have very good acoustics. It hosted Bob Marley's last Boston
area concert in 1980, and it has since been heavily renovated more recently, now
called the Hynes Convention Center, so I'm told.
I haven't been there since then for a show (or know if they still have shows
there) but they have had some cool shows there- including this one. It's a couple
of blocks down Bolyston St. from the intersection of Mass. Ave. about a quarter
mile from Fenway Park.