Wild Bill Davison at Nicks
Nick's
Greenwich Village
New York, NY
06/07/1962

SBD -

Wild Bill Davison, cornet
Buster Bailey, clarinet
Vick Dickenson, trombone
Dick Wellstood, piano
Cliff Leeman, drums
willie Wayman, bass

1) Memories of You - 6:48
2) I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - 0:56
3) Save It Pretty Mama - 6:05 9:20 sound amplified on original recording through rest of recording
4) You're Lucky to Me - 6:44
5) Exactly Like You - 8:00
6) Squeeze Me - 6:57
7) That's a Plenty - 5: 18
8) Riverboat Shuffle
9) Blue and Broken Hearted - featuring Wild Bill Davidson - 3:47
10) K Blues 5:12 - not sure about title of song - features Buster Bailey
11) unknown song - 8:12
12) Oh Baby - 7:56
13) On The Alamo - 7:47
14) Sleep - 7:14

Total time: 1:28:27

His nickname 'Wild Bill' reflected a reputation for heavy drinking and womanising (Anne Stewart was his fourth wife). His cornet style was generally hot and powerful, but could also be delicately melodic.

Here's a fantastic show. Close to the 9:20 mark not only does the sound increase by 7db during this song, but the sound quality improves significantly. Who knows why? The taper made adjustments of some kind,and the overall sound quality is MUCH better (not just louder)at that point. Gawd only knows why, especially for a recording that is this old.

Techinal stuff:

20+ years ago I made copies from the person who recorded these shows. My copies were on Sony UCXS 90 tape. Type II High Bias tape.

Sony UCXS 90 tape -> Nakamichi BX-125 2 head tape deck (no dolby) -> XONAR D1 PCI 7.1 audio card -> Audacity -> Adobe Audition 3.0 - Wav file -> Flac Frontend - Level 5

Good news. I have a new used Nakamichi deck. The last one died and now has a new home at the Goodwill and will be able to keep posting from the 600 + cassette tapes.

Back cover photo:
Pee Wee Russell, Muggsy Spanier, Miff Mole and Joe Grauso, Nick's (Tavern), New York, ca. June 1946