James Booker
Tipitina's
New Orleans, La.
1978

Note: may be from multiple performances.


01. Come in my House 4:16
02. Fur Elise 0:54
03. Papa Was a Rascal 5:28
04. Let It Be 5:16
05. Please Send Me Someone to Love 5:37
06. Make a Better World 5:34
07. People Get Ready (with Art Neville) (cut) 4:38

Total: 31:47

with guests Charles Neville (sax), Art Neville (vocals, possibly keyboards), Lloyd Williams

Note: First few songs are solo piano; on Tracks 4-7, Booker is joined by a band. He plays organ on some songs, but later piano again (accompanied by an unknown organ player, possibly Art Neville).

This performance was broadcast by WWOZ during its 'Fall Festing' special program where excerpts of dozens of live performances were broadcast over seven days in early September 2020. This recording was broadcast on Sept. 6, 2020.

WWOZ credit: James Booker, from the Thorny Penfield Collection, Hogan Jazz Archive of Tulane University Special Collections, Tipitina's, 1978



source: WWOZ-FM > Yamaha TX-900 (mid-1980s) tuner > Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (2nd generation) audio interface > USB > MacBook Air (1.8GHz, Dual-Core Intel Core i5, OSX 10.15.6) > SoX > flac (44.1 kHz, 16bit) > iZotope RX 6 v6.00.1210 (trimmed; 19kHz notch filter; iZotope's Spectral De-Noise plugin used (-10 db) to reduce slight electrical noise; normalized (1.6 db left, 1.3 db right); split into songs) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.50 (sector boundaries repaired, tagged) > flac

Editing notes: 23 seconds of station announcements removed just before Let It Be.



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