Wynton Marsalis
w/ The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Baltimore, MD
Feb. 1, 2004


Excellent soundboard / audience matrix (from DAT master)

A stellar recording from "The RS Archives"
(a Mexminute/TheCommish production)


** mp3 samples provided (as always) in the Comments section **


TheCommish notes: I have to admit I'm a bit out of my league on this torrent; this torrent was a Mexminute selection. As such, figuring out the setlist would have been an extreme challenge for me if not for Wynton introducing each of the songs by their titles (except for the last song). If anyone can identify the title, please post a comment! Enjoy the show...


Setlist:
101. Free To Be
102. Volcano
103. Boléro
104. Afro-Bossa
105. Mack The Knife
106. La Espada de la Noche (translation: The Sword of the Night)
107. Firebird

201. April in Paris
202. Tickle Toe
203. Blues in Hoss' Flat
204. Little Darlin'
205. Prince of Wales
206. Molten Swing
207. Sixteen Men Swinging (includes band intro)
208. ?? (title not given by Wynton)


Lineage:
DAT master > Sony PCM-R500 (playback) > HHB CDR-850 (burning) > CDR, then
CDR > EAC > WAV > Editing (see below) > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

Editing notes:
* Re-tracked show by combining in Nero, splitting with CD Wave

Additional notes:
There's quite a bit of entertaining between-song chatter from Wynton, which is nice, but sometimes he speaks quite softly as compared to the volume level of the songs he introduces. There are also volume variations within individual songs, but I made no attempt to "balance out" these volume fluctuations since I'm not familiar enough with the songs to know which parts should be loud and which parts shouldn't. So I left the volume as-is.

In addition, I realize that tracking a show is a matter of personal taste: Some people like to mark the tracks at the songs' first notes whereas others prefer to include any spoken intro about a song in the same track as the song itself (as opposed to having it at the end of the preceding track). I decided it made better sense to track this so that the song introductions are included at the beginning of each track. If you find some of the lengthy song introductions bothersome, you can always grab a copy of CD Wave and split the introductions from the songs themselves once you convert the FLAC files to wave files.


About "The RS Archives":
The RS Archive consists of a selection of live recordings made by a great individual who passed away in 2005.

RS worked in the music industry in many capacities….a music fan….a musician….a sound engineer. He was considered one of the best behind the mixing board. I was honored to have known him for practically 35 years. There was no one like him….he was a wonderful human being. Everybody loved him. He was a level-headed guy who knew what sounded good and what didn't. He could conceive and design sound systems from scratch in his head to meet the artist’s needs. Whatever they wanted, he could do.


For years, he mixed music at the annual Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards television show. RS worked closely for years with Daryl Hall and John Oates, Juice Newton, Anita Baker, Mariah Carey, Tears for Fears, Crack the Sky, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Aretha Franklin, Pink Floyd, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Anne Murray, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Tony Bennett, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt, Frank Sinatra, John Hiatt, Little Feat, Little Village, and Waylon Jennings…..to name a few.

He had a huge reputation in the business, and that's why he was chosen to work with such budding clients as Mariah Carey. With the major stars, he was one of the preferred engineers they choose to work with. A particular client of RS who had a reputation for firing sound engineers with great regularity was Anita Baker, whom he won over not only with his technical abilities and personality, but with his refusal to put up with her criticism. He quit a few times but always came back because she loved the way he mixed her music. He could coddle difficult and temperamental celebrities, and they respected his work. He was able to kick back and get along with them. Even though he knew these people, he was a very modest man.

So now, it is time to honor him by sharing some of the many recordings he made while on the road. All are perfect (or near perfect) soundboard recordings made from the master cassettes or master dat tapes. Unfortunately, I am not able to identify the original equipment these tapes were made on, however I can say that for the transferring process, the cassette tapes were played back on a Nakamichi CR-7A, and the dat tapes on a Sony PCM-R500. They were all burnt onto cdr using a HHB CDR-850.

Please enjoy these tasty gems!
Mexminute (fellow DIME member).



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Generously shared by Mexminute
and uploaded on DIME by TheCommish
February 2009