Jon Cleary
WWOZ Piano Night
Generations Hall
New Orleans
April 30, 2001

1. Too Damn Hot > 2:38
2. unknown instrumental > 1:49
3. Ti Na Na 3:37
4. unknown instrumental 2:40
5. New Orleans Louisiana Blues 4:39
6. Tipitina 7:23
7. Port Street Blues 5:12
8. Moonburn 6:36
Total time: 34:36

Source & transfers
First three songs: WWOZ-FM > JVC hifi VHS recorder (extended play 8-hour setting) > Maxell HGX-Silver High Grade T-160 VHS tape > JVC vcr (playback) > Onkyo TX-SV535 receiver > Audiomedia III > Macintosh G3 > Bias Peak 2.62 (trimmed) > Shorten for Mac 1.1a3 (2002) > shn > xACT (2024) > flac (one large file)

Last five songs: WWOZ-FM > JVC vcr (as above) > VHS tape > JVC vcr (playback) > Audiomedia III > Macintosh G3 > Bias Peak 2.62 (trimmed) > Audiomedia III > probably Tascam DA-P1 > DAT > (playback 2024) Sony PCM-R500 > Metric Halo MIO-2882 > Macintosh MacBook Pro > MIO Console 5.6 > wav > xACT 2.57 > flac (one large file)

Final edit (2025): two flac archive files > xACT 2.57 > wav > Audacity 3.7.5 (tracking) > xACT (flac'ing, tagging)


Notes
During the original Piano Night 2001 broadcast, only the last +/-26 minutes of Cleary's set was broadcast. A year later during WWOZ's Jazzfest broadcasts, an additional 8 minutes of the 2001 performance were broadcast as part of a tease for the upcoming 2002 Piano Night. The first three tracks here are from the 2002 broadcast (of the 2001 performance).

Recorded off the radio by Richard Russell; editing assistance by Robbie Mendelson.


Jon Cleary, keyboards, vocals

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Derwin Perkins (Big D), guitar
Cornell Williams, bass
Jeffery "Jellybean" Alexander, drums