George Coleman
xx-xx-1985
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Santa Cruz, California

Soundboard audio - excellent sound quality. From uncompressed capture of U-Matic 3/4 inch video cassette. This tape is a live-edit master or possibly a 1st gen. copy at most. I do not know any of the song titles so I am posting the audio first in hopes that someone can come up with a setlist to improve the DVD menu. Otherwise, I'll upload the DVD video soon chaptered but without the titles.

01 [02:24] stage announcer and tuneups before first song
02 [14:34] ??????????
03 [19:27] ??????????
04 [14:01] ??????????
05 [09:15] ?????????? [cut]
total: 59:41

George Coleman - tenor saxophone
Harold Maybern - piano
Jamil Nassir - bass
Carl Burnett - drums

Transfer: U-Matic tape cassette > Sony VO-5600 deck > Sony DVMC-DA2 (DV hardware codec media converter) > Final Cut Pro > Audio exported as 44.1 AIFF in one untracked file. Tracked with Pro Tools > AIFF files > xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

Some background on George Coleman for those that are not familiar with him from:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1078

George Coleman's biggest break as a young man was touring with blues legend B.B. King which got him out of Memphis. In 1958 Max Roach asked Coleman, then living in Chicago, to join his band. A bit later he moved to New York and became best known for his brief but influential period with Miles Davis (circa 1963). He has worked over the years with Gene Ammons and Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton's octet, Lionel Hampton, Lee Morgan, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Ahmad Jamal and Betty Carter and many more. He has also released several quality albums under his own name.

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