Lyle Mays Quartet
Unknown Venue
Madison, Wisconsin
November 5, 1994

source-VG+ audience recording obtained in cd-r trade> EAC disc extraction > Audacity for re-tracking outlined below> Foobar EQ to reduce tape hiss> TLH for torrent creation> DIME

Lyle Mays - piano
Bob Sheppard - soprano & tenor saxophones
Steve Rodby - acoustic bass
Mark Walker - drums

1st set
1. Venue Show Introduction 1:07
2. Hard Eights (L.Mays) 11:11
3. Either Ornette (L.Mays) 7:32
4. Chorinho (L.Mays) 11:27
5. Lyle stage talk 0:58
6. Lincoln Reviews His Notes (L.Mays) (cut) 10:12
7. Sienna (L.Mays) (beginning cut) 9:49
8. Lyle stage talk again 0:43
9. Fictionary (L.Mays) 20:10
2nd set
10. Falling Grace (Steve Swallow) (beginning cut) 6:41
11. Bill Evans (L.Mays) (beginning & end cut) 8:31
12. What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) (cut) 7:06
13. Au Lait (P.Metheny/L.Mays) (beginning cut) 10:53
14. Concluding Lyle stage talk 0:36
15. Samurai Hee-Haw (Marc Johnson) 15:39
16. August (L.Mays) (cut at 12:08) 11:52

Here's something of an outlier among Lyle Mays Quartet shows. This appears to have been something of a one-off show in Wisconsin at an undetermined location. Steve Rodby from PMG is on bass here, rather than Marc Johnson, who'd recorded the Fictionary album that was pretty extensively toured by Lyle in 1993. I've not come across other live shows from Lyle in 94, and no others under his name as leader that included Steve Rodby. For those who might be interested, Mark Walker's Facebook site includes a photo taken at the end of this show.
The DIME archive shows that this was up here once in 2006 when it was shared by NightDreamer. I wasn't on DIME until 2007, so I'm guessing that this came to me in a cd-r snail mail trade, although it probably does share the lineage from NightDreamer that I've copied from the archive and pasted below. Thanks to the recorder of this show, and to whoever it was that made it available to me. For what it's worth, the info from NightDreamer's share mistakenly listed Marc Johnson as the bassist on this show, and Either Ornette was listed as "Untitled".
My copy of the show had been tracked a bit strangely. There were things such as a clear break between What's Going On and Au Lait in set 2, but they appeared as a single track. In other cases, the first note of notes of songs like Lincoln Reviews his Notes, Sienna, and Falling Grace were heard at the end of the tracks appearing before them. Therefore, I re-tracked the show in Audacity to smooth out those sorts of things.
This is generally well recorded and quite listenable, but there is also what I'm guessing must be tape hiss that can be heard in quieter sections. A few tracks had as much as 15 seconds of "dead air" at the beginning or end of tracks where the hiss was all that was heard, and I felt it would be beneficial to trim those out. I then put the files into Foobar for the "live" EQ tweaking possible there while listening to the tracks. I could address the hissing more effectively there than I could've through the live editing in Audacity. This work in Foobar also helped with parts of the show that were a bit overdriven. Finally, sbe's were detected and then fixed in TLH.
In the end, I'll definitely say there are live shows from Lyle that you can seek out which have better sound quality, but this is now improved over what it had once been. The samples below with allow you to hear how this sounds for yourself.


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NightDreamer's source info copied and pasted from 2006 DIME share

Audience recording (A-)
AUD -> ?? -> .shn -> .wav -> FLAC Frontend (level 6, SBEs OK)