James Booker Piano Tribute
(Featuring David Reis, Joshua Paxton, Tom McDermott, Joe Krown, and Tom Worrell)
Blues Tent
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
New Orleans Fair Grounds
New Orleans, La.
May 5, 2011




1 Stage intro by David Kunian 0:50
2 Joshua Paxton intro 0:36
3 Pinetop Boogie Woogie 3:04
4 Gonzo 5:03
5 Malaguena 3:02
6 Tom McDermott intro 0:43
7 Medley: Fun! Fun! Fun! > Ticket to Ride 5:07
8 Let Them Talk (with Lillian Boutte) 5:51
9 Joe Krown intro 0:26
10 Pops Dilemma 3:50
11 St. James Infirmary 3:48
12 Classified 4:51
13 Tom Worrell intro 0:34
14 Besame Mucho 3:59
15 band intro 0:29
16 So Swell When You're Well 5:01
17 Medley: Spo Dee-o'dee > It Should've Been Me 5:44
53:05


source: WWOZ-FM > RadioShark v2.0.2 USB FM receiver > Macintosh MacMini (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > aiff > Quicktime 7.6.3 (convert aiff to wav) > wav > flac v1.2.1 (Linux command line; level 8 compression) > one large flac file

mp3 splice source: wwoz.org 128kbps mp3 stream > Macintosh MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > RadioRecorder v1.07 > captured mp3 stream > (edited into the above recording)

transfer: flac file (transferred by ftp from remote pc) > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.11 (convert to aiff) > aiff > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed, split into songs, normalized by 4.5 db) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.11 (sector boundaries repaired; level 8 compression) > flac

David Reis was billed as part of this show but evidently does not appear on this recording.

WWOZ suffered some technical glitches whenever they tried to shift from the onstage broadcast to station announcements between a couple of songs as well as at the end of the show. They faded down the music to almost nothing, yet the DJs' mics apparently were also faded down - so that there was essentially dead air on the FM broadcast. However, on the online mp3 stream, it was barely possible to hear what was going on.

For this recording, I spliced in 23 seconds from the mp3 source (normalized by about 40 db!) to restore a missing section near the end of Track 5, beginning about 2:35 into the track.

Additionally, there is a splice of about 29 seconds consisting of edited band-member introductions after Track 14 that is also from the mp3 stream (normalized). (The entire Track 15 - about 1:30 - was deemed too noisy to include in the main flac set.) Both sections were normalized with Bias Peak's "amplitude fit" digital signal processing feature. The later splice (Track 15) is somewhat noisy.