the Mordy Ferber Quartet
Mordy Ferber: guitar
Tiger Okoshi: trumpet
Miroslav Vitous: bass
Bob Moses: drums

1369 Jazz Club
Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A.
September 17, 1986 (Wednesday)
performance quality: B+
recording quality: B+
source: master audience tape
runtime: 145:16 (minutes/ seconds)

1st set 5 tracks (1 for tuning) 73:48
1: tuning 3:04
2: 21:46 (end applause spliced after song ends)
3: 15:04
4: 15:49
5: 18:04 (cuts, spliced at 15:01, tape change)

2nd set 3 tracks 71:28
6: 8:48
7: 15:30
8: 47:11 (cuts, spliced at 19:06, tape change)

lineage:
AKG D190E microphones >
Sony 158 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLII-S 90 min. master cassettes >
played on tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
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A this and that, you are there,
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mastered and remastered by glasnostrd19.
each set is seamless
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comments:
There are 2 tape flip cuts (1 in each set) of this, only a few seconds missing from
the whole night's show, featuring a not very well known except in Boston area
(at this time anyway) guitarist Mordy Ferber, with otherwise very well known quartet.
I think the 1st post had a comment that Mordy Ferber comes from Israel.
He played several shows in Cambridge/Boston area in the mid 80's.
Bob Moses and Tiger Okoshi had played together with several groups in this
area in the 80's, Okoshi has his own group "Tiger's Baku", which is not this,
nothing like it at all, more like a jazz funk fusion.
although Bob Moses has his own style of funk sometimes too...
Miroslav Vitous had played with Weather Report and several very well known people,
including his own quartet. The 1369 club was a place about the size of a fairly
large living room in a suburban USA home, yet it hosted some pretty cool shows
with well known jazz players (John Abercrombie played there many times with his groups).
This group only played a few shows together (as far as I know).
I never heard any mention of an album, song title, or a tour by this group.
the 1st set of this was filmed for a Channel 2 (PBS-TV) special, I don't know if that
ever got aired (I never saw it or heard anything about it after this show). Even if
it was, I doubt the sound of theirs is as good as this is, since they used a camcorder
for video and sound (apparently). I think I even offered to let them patch my stereo
sound into their recording or get a dub of it. The cameraman politely declined,
apparently not very concerned about it. All the tracks here are long, the last one
is just over 47 minutes, there's a tinge of 70's Terje Rypdal and John Abercrombie
and 80's Pat Metheny in Ferber's style, some synth guitar (but not the same effect
Metheny liked to use and annoy me with) I don't know if any of these 6 tracks have
any titles. This was actually my second time time seeing or hearing Mordy Ferber.
(the first one was posted soon after this when I discovered the tape). Although
this concert was billed as being the Mordy Ferber Quartet, all 4 players get plenty
of playtime in this show in an equal balance of distribution (including solos).
There was quite a bit of background noise in my 1st copy of this, which forced me
to digitize this again, because I remembered NO hiss and very little noise at all,
and now there isn't any, it's a good clean recording, and the 2 splices are not
very noticable at all (as I prefer splices to be), it is all taken from the
original master cassettes, which have not been played very often and are still
in good shape. There is just a very slight PA noise now in a couple of the
quietest parts, hardly even noticable now on this new transfer. I'm quite happy
with the sound quality of this. All the instruments come through clearly.
the lineage info is better detailed this time, and the audio tracking is better.
This is a third time seed from my master recording, unless jazzdave seeded this
somewhere, he has a 1st gen. of this, I've remastered this and removed some loud
mike knocks. There are just a few slight ones left now, barely even detectable,
but the music has not been altered in any way. This is a raw from master transfer,
no EQ, Dolby or noise reduction was used (except some clap peak volume reductions)
in the recording or remastering of this recording.