Happy Mother's Day!
(let's all go climb a...)
Nut Tree (23 years ago edition)
this one with
John Abercrombie- guitar
Mike Stern guitar
Chip Jackson- bass
Adam Nussbaum- drums
1369 Jazz Club
Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A.
May 15, 1986
(2 sets)
performance quality B+ at least, nice stuff
recording quality: B to B+
source: master audience tape
runtime: 1st set (5 tracks) 81:12
2nd set (5 tracks) 68:05
(beginning of 1st track missing in both sets)
lineage: Realistic mini mikes (under shirt) >
Sony D-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLII-S master cassettes >
played on Nak. 125 cassette deck into soundforge (WAV) with Realtek soundcard >
FLAC > torrentially yours.
mastered, digitized and posted by glasnostrd19.
first seeded in 2008, reseeded May 15, 2009.
comments:
Here is the fourth and last of my quartet of John Abercrombie quartet
and quintet Mother's Day Weekend posts. I only recently saw this group
(a different edition of it) posted here for the 1st time in any form,
and I thought some might want to hear what was for almost 22 years,
the only kind of a "nut tree" I'd ever heard involving John Abercrombie.
this was the 1st of 2 nights of Nut Tree at the 1369 (very small)
Jazz club. It was packed like a sardine can both nights. This one
comes from my own D-6 master aud, so this can and will be shared.
I have a recording of the second night too but I don't have permission
to share that which its source had to record it. The person who recorded
that cannot share shows that he recorded with band's permission without
agreement, and I haven't spoken to him in years. This first night's
recording is mine and not done with any restrictions placed on it,
So I can share it and so can you.
I was inspired to post this after seeing a much more recent Nut Tree
show posted from Sweden this year (2008), that has a B-3 organist and
a sax, this has a lot of guitar, it's a little like Bass Desires
(except, no NABies in here) but maybe a little less, um bassic. There
is a bassist in here but he is very understated and/or mixed lower than
the others in these sets.
This was for a long time the only "Nut Tree" group I had ever heard of,
so now everyone else who may only know of the current one, won't think
I'm up a nut tree thinking this group has Mike Stern (and Abercrombie)
in it. Maybe it doesn't any more, but it did, and here's the proof. There
were edits between almost all the tracks since there were rather long
tuning gaps between songs and of course (as I was still discovering),
recording Abercrombie shows (of any kind) on C-90's requires creative
and careful tape flipping to avoid cuttage since all the songs are 10
min. or more. Besides the beginning of each set being cut into, there is
just one other interruption for a flip of tape 45 min. into the 1st set.
I have smoothed out the end of song edits a little. Too bad I don't know the titles,
even if Etree was up I bet this would be another setlist and concert
not listed on etree anyway. I haven't had very good luck finding setlists
there but they've had even worse luck lately, hope it gets better for them soon.
one good tree deserves another, and I like trees. I don't know how long this
group has been around in any form as "nut tree" but this is the earliest edition
I've heard of, and the only one until the 2008 post from Stolkholm.
This is most of both sets, unfortunately the beginning of both is missing here,
a little more from the 1st set (as much as 15 min.?) than the 2nd (about 5 min).
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
trees are for sharing.
Plant a tree. (I did last Earth day).
the life you save may be your own child's.