McCoy Tyner Group
McCoy Tyner, piano, dulcimer
Joe Ford, alto and soprano sax, flute
Ron Bridgewater, tenor sax
Charles Fambrough, bass
Eric Gravatt, drums
Guilherme Franco, percussion

Paul's Mall
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
May 18, 1977
source: master audience tape
runtime: 144:03 (minutes/ seconds)

set 1: 74:47
1: tuning: 2:32
2: mode for dulcimer 34:21
3: moment's notice 14:05 (cuts at 8:11, spliced)
4: the greeting 23:41

set 2: 69:14
5: tuning :50
6: mes trois fils 19:53 (cuts at 14:32, spliced)
7: my one and only love 14:57
8: blues on the corner 9:26
9: fly with the wind 23:57 (cuts at aprx. 14:22, spliced)

lineage:
Sony TC-48 mono auto-leveller cassette deck with built in mic >
BASF Professional Series cassettes (normal bias/EQ, put into other housings) >
tascam 112 > soundforge (16 bit/ 44.1 khz wav) > flac 8 (sb's aligned)
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comments:
This was my second time seeing McCoy live.
The 1st was in 1976 at the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, and after that,
I decided I had to try recording him. That was a wonderful concert,
didn't have a deck, really wish I had.
Didn't have a very good deck for this one, but at least I had one,
and it made it through a whole night of McCoy (not easy).
The 1976 was the best McCoy concert I've seen (of 6) or heard,
despite the curtain coming down on him in the middle of Fly Like the Wind,
one of my all- time favorite McCoy tunes (there are several great ones).
This one was also a very nice show, there are 3 tape flip cuts in this
recording, and another hot Fly like the wind, this time without a curtain
interruption.
I still hadn't yet figured out that with 15 minutes left on tape 1, odds
of fitting 1 McCoy song without cutting it are almost nill, and I didn't
know if the second set would run over 90 minutes. McCoy likes really long
songs, and this one ends with 23:57 of Fly like the Wind. I have spliced
the cut songs together into single tracks and reduced the more severe
mike bumps out of it (none are real noticable in the music, almost all
the loudest bumps were between songs and are not loud at all now). I have
barely listened to this master tape, because it was recorded on BASF
"Professional" (professional what, I don't know) 90 min. cassettes.
I think BASF has improved their tapes alot since then, (for their sake,
I really hope so) and this is the only time I've ever used these tapes
for a master recording (couldn't find or afford any Maxell or TDK's
which have worked alot better for me and I usually use.) they held up
better than I thought they would, not played on any poorly working deck.
Fidelity is not too good with the mike in the deck used for this, I'd
guess about 500-5,000 khz frequency response (that's a technical way to
say a mike or deck has horrible fidelity, possibly found as a prize in
a box of Trix cereal) but you get enough to hear what's going on.
The middle part of 2nd set had lower levels than the rest (for about 30 minutes),
the rest sounds clean, very little noise, and the bass, congas and piano all
sound relatively clear in the recording. The cymbals and drums aren't as
present in parts, and sound like the drummer is using toy drums in some parts
(he wasn't). I have very warm memories of this concert.
Haven't ever heard a weak McCoy Tyner show, all have been very good music and playing.
This was one of a 3 or 4 night run at Paul's Mall.
McCoy did a few of those, and the club was always packed. It's a real
treat to hear him in a club, since he packed any place he played in Boston
(including Symphony Hall). In my opinion, the 73-77 era was prime time
for the McCoy Tyner groups, and much like Weather Report, the drummers
(and others) in them are always solid players.