A night at the Hynes Auditorium
With (in order of appearance)
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes
the Buddy Rich Big Band
McCoy Tyner Sextet:
McCoy Tyner: piano, flute
Joe Ford: alto sax, soprano sax, flute
Ron Bridgewater: tenor saxophone
Charles Fambrough: bass
Eric Gravatt: drums
Guilherme Franco: conga, drum, percussion
Hynes Auditorium
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
January 15, 1978
this includes just the McCoy Tyner set. (2 tracks)
performance quality: B+
recording quality: B
source: 1st generation audience tape
LLS runtime: 60:29
BRBB runtime: 50:32
MT runtime: 46:33 (minutes/seconds)
setlist:
1. stage introduction > the greeting 27:02
2. African village 19:29
lineage: unknown mikes (decent ones) >
JVC KD-2 cassette deck > (I think...? not sure about this, am sure it's w/o Dolby)
TDK-AD 90 min. cassette > Maxell UD 7" reel at 3/3.4 ips (both normal bias) >
soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
mastered and remastered by glasnostrd19. reseeded Jan. 2009
reseeded in 2012 with band and setlist info, track times and a
flac > wav > flac (sb's aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe's.
Do not sell this recording.
(that would be just plain coy.)
Share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
This was all posted together in 1 lump. This time the 3 sets are being
posted seperately. it's a conjoined triplet torrent seperation surgery
performed by glasnostrd19 for your DL'ing convenience. McCoy Tyner also
headlined the 1976 BGJF concert that I've been looking for a recording of
ever since, and this is NOT that concert. I saw both of them. I didn't have
a recorder for 76 show (same location as this too). BIG MISTAKE.....
not repeated again for 70's Tyner concert. This wasn't Fly with the Wind
tour (my favorite Tyner ever) but it was a very nice McCoy Tyner concert.
comments:
This was a 3 band event this night of Boston Globe Jazz Festival.
This event would later grow into a multi-day long affair, but at this time
I think it was just 3 bands and 1 night. I saw and recorded them all. LLS
and McCoy's set were mastered on a TDK- AD 90 min. cassette, McCoy's later
transferred to reel. The Buddy Rich was recorded on some cheaper brand of tape
but still sounds decent. The other sets sound better. I think I still had the
JVC KD-2 portable deck at this time, it was before I got the Sony 158 that
was used for many of my masters. Not sure what mikes were used, whatever I
could find lying around, basically. There is just 1 tape flip splice in MT
show in track 7, only a few seconds missing there. The splice in track 8 is
due to about a 7 second section that was accidentally erased with something
else that I had to remove. Fortunately, neither of these splices are very
jarring, it is just about the whole set. I applied alot of ICPVR (individual
clap peak volume reduction) between the songs to make it a smoother listen,
and balanced the levels out, reduced a few mike knocks, otherwise this is
the raw master, no noise reduction was used in the mastering or remastering
of this set. You don't hear much live stuff from Cosmic Echoes, they're a good
soul/ jazz/ rhythm & blues band with a nice energy. I think only one person
heard the 1st remaster I made of this (at his request), I was a little more
meticulous to get the loud claps not so loud on this one, which is my 1st ever
master seed of this show. (in mid-2008.)
Although LLS was the opening set, it was also the longest, and probably the
cleanest recording since this set comes from the original TDK master cassette.
The McCoy set is a reel 1st gen copy of a TDK master, and the Buddy Rich was
recorded on poor man's tape so not quite as clear and has a couple of flip cuts,
but all three are enjoyable sound quality for 78 audience recordings. The Hynes
Auditorium did not have very good acoustics. It hosted Bob Marley's last Boston
area concert in 1980, and it has since been heavily renovated more recently, now
called the Hynes Convention Center, so I'm told.
I haven't been there since then for a show (or know if they still have shows
there) but they have had some cool shows there- including this one. It's a couple
of blocks down Bolyston St. from the intersection of Mass. Ave. about a quarter
mile from Fenway Park.