BRUFORD-LEVIN UPPER EXTREMITIES
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Club Diamond Hall
1998-04-07

The First Performance by B.L.U.E

Audience recording, lineage unknown (Sound Enhanced Version)
Sound quality: A- (re-seeder's rating)

Bill Bruford: Drums, Percussion
Tony Levin: Bass, Stick
David Torn: Guitar, Effects
Chris Botti: Trumpet

01. audience
02. improv (*)
03. Etude Revisited
04. Bill speaks
05. Original Sin
06. Cerulean Sea
07. Deeper Blue
08. A Palace Of Pearls (On A Blade Of Grass)
09. Cracking The Midnight Glass
10. 3 Minutes Of Pure Entertainment
11. Bill speaks 2
12. Fin De Siecle
13. crowd exodus

(*) Re-seeder's note: Track 02 was originally titled "Improv - Marionettes Waltz," but I can find no reference to "Marionettes Waltz" in the context of BLUE.

Total time: 1:11:36

Here is the first performance of Bruford-Levin Upper Extremities.
This is for My Good Friends Machen and Booomboom.
Thanks to dylanfreak for lending his ear.

SOURCE: Audience
LINEAGE: Unknown CD Gen received in trade > EAC > Adobe Audition for re-tracking with Izotope Ozone 6 for Sound Enhancement > TLH FlacL8

!!!!!!!Warning this recording has been sound enhanced never trade it as the original untouched files.!!!!!

The original recording sounds ok but it's flat and suffered from a near clapper.
I beefed up the sound and removed as many near claps and table side noises as I could. There are still a lot of table side noises that could not be fixed without removing some notes so they are left in.

inserts by myself included
enjoy

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THE NOTES ABOVE ARE ADAPTED FROM THE ORIGINAL TORRENT (MOSTLY NOT WRITTEN BY ME)

Seeded on DIME by juxtiphi on 2013-08-18
Reseeded on DIME by iggy1 on 2026-04-07
- No audio changes made to FLAC files.
- Tagged and renamed files
- Created new FFPs to reflect new file names
- Added information to info file

I loved this band and flew into Baltimore to see their show at Orion Studios. Well worth the trip! This Nagoya show was a great start to their tour.

Note: None of the songs from this show appear on their official live release, "BLUE Nights."

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