Sheila Jordan- vocals
Steve Kuhn- piano
Harvie Swartz- bass
Bob Moses- drums
Molde International Jazz Festival
Molde, Norway
August 8, 1980
from National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" pre-recorded FM broadcast
runtime: 106:09 (minutes/seconds)
tracklist:
1: radio announcer introduction and 1st song 9:44
2: radio comments 3:41
3: Kuhn solo piano improvisation 11:12
4: Kuhn interview 1:06
5: ? 9:08
6: radio comments and Kuhn interview 5:05
7: ? 4:50
8: Jordan interview and song 6:06 (interview cuts in, the song is complete)
9: radio commentary and interview 4:35
10: ? (spliced, tape flip) 44:51
11: the city of Dallas (renamed the town of Molde for this show) 4:49
12: radio closing comments (incl. concert date) :57
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comments:
during the time of 1978-1980 I recorded some of the programs broadcast
on the radio series called "Jazz Alive". This is one of those. some were
of artists I was very familiar with, others like this show were of artists
I knew very little or nothing about.
a few years before this, Steve Kuhn was in a group called "estacy"
that's about all I knew of any of these people, except for Bob Moses
who I had seen a few times before in various groups. I saw and recorded
Sheila Jordan and Steve Kuhn a little more than a year earlier with a
different bassist and drummer. it wasn't the kind of music I listen to much
but they sounded pretty good and I suspect some folks will want to hear this.
the pre-recorded Jazz Alive broadcasts were always of high quality. The FM
reception isn't perfect but most of it is pretty good, a few sections have
some slight FM static but it never gets very loud or lasts for very long.
It is all a stereo recording taken from the original cassettes recorded
probably just a few weeks or months after the concert happened.
This recording has one interruption during a drum solo part of the longest
song in this performance broadcast. Only a few seconds are missing from that,
the 1st tape flip was after the track 7 song ended.
some applause was spliced in to make it not an abrupt ending to track 7.
if burning to CD, track 8 is probably the best place to begin the disc 2.
some of the beginnings of the songs were talked over (slightly) by radio announcer
so rather than chop them up in the tracking, some of the songs begin with radio comments
(related to this concert, or the artists in it) and the song follows, while others
begin at the start of the song. I don't know how many of these songs have titles,
or if this is the whole concert. It is within a few seconds of the whole FM coverage
provided in this broadcast. in its earliest years the "Jazz Alive" series was a 90 minute
program but in 1980 (maybe 79?) it was expanded to a 2 hour program due to popular interest.
It was a fine program featuring both "classic" and new jazz artists.