Tony Williams Quintet
Yoshi's Jazz House
Oakland, CA
1988-10-06

Tony Williams-drums
Wallace Roney-trumpet
Billy Pierce-tenor sax
Bob Hurst-bass
Mulgrew Miller-piano

source/lineage- 2007 DIME share of FM broadcast captured on unknown equipment> EAC> Audacity> TLH> DIME

1-Angel Street 13:22
2-KCSM 1
3-Geo Rose 8:50
4-Civilization 9:04
5-KCSM 2 0:27
6-Mutants on the Beach 15:15
7-KCSM over and out 0:06

Here's a great recording of Tony Williams with his Quintet from around the time his Angel Street album came out on Blue Note. The title track is played here, but the other material came from the Civilization album a few years earlier. This was shared here in 2007 by upkerry12 (many thanks to him). That appears to have been the show's only run here, and some of his notes are pasted in below from the dimebot archive.
In bringing this back now, the files were opened in Audacity to check tracking and a couple of minor things were done. First of all, my version was tracked with 7 separate tracks, but the archive showed this with 4 separate tracks corresponding to the pieces played. Not sure at all why mine might've been different, but it was. The tracking in mine had to do with 3 spots in which the DJ, Bud Spengler, made short comments pertaining to what was being played. Those comments spanned tracks, e.g. the track might start with applause from the end of a performance, but then actually go for a few seconds into the next performance track. I retained the separate DJ tracks, but cleaned them up so that they uniformly are entities unto themselves, and don't overlap into the performance tracks. A mastering tool was also applied very lightly to ever so slightly brighten and open up the music a little bit. Check the samples, and you'll get a great idea of what to expect. SBE's were present, and they were repaired in TLH.
This excellent quintet was Tony's main musical vehicle from the mid 1980's up to the start of the 1990's. They released 6 albums during their time together, and only saw changes in the bass chair from Charnett Moffett to Robert Hurst, and finally Ira Coleman. Tony seemed to be enjoying the acoustic jazz quintet setting he'd inhabited with Miles during the 60's and the VSOP groups in the late 70's and early 80's. Although he was definitely a father of the fusion movement, that didn't touch on this repertoire or group. Tony always wrote music for his bands, and the songs here were his. As John McLaughlin referred to him, he was "a prophet of rhythm". Enjoy!

some notes from upkerry12's share follow:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FM>CDR>EAC>FLAC
TT: 47:40
Sound:A+ This is from Bud Spangler's show (recently sadly defunct)"Sunday Night Sweets" on
KCSM 91.1FM San Mateo. Bud and crew went out to many a venue to record live jazz and would
broadcast an hour a week on his show. He recently quit after 20 years and his show will be sorely
missed by me.
I wonder what he's going to do with all those DATS I saw in his basement ?.....

Since there was some TW up here recently I thought I'd offer this excellent show once again. Tony seems
to always be welcome.

Enjoy, Bill D.
-----------------