Five Peace Band
Blue Note Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
2009-02-08 Both Shows

Chick Corea - keyboards
John McLaughlin - Guitar
Christian McBride - Bass (acoustic and electric)
Kenny Garrett - Saxophones
Brian Blade - Drums

source/lineage-cd-r trade of Audience Sourced recording (1st show; captured on unknown equipment) and DIME flac share of a separate Audience sourced recording (2nd show; captured on equipment pasted in below)> EAC> Audacity> TLH> DIME


01-1st show Introduction 0:49
02-1st show Raju 16:09
03-1st show The Disguise 20:30
04-1st show New Blues, Old Bruise 19:51
05-1st show Spirit Rides 17:12
06-1st show In a Silent Way/It's About that Time 14:26
07-2nd Show Intro 0:59
08-2nd Show Senor C.S. 30:08
09-2nd Show Hymn To Andromeda 30:41
10-2nd Show Chick and John remarks 2:03
11-2nd Show Dr. Jackle 24:50
12-2nd Show In A Silent Way/It's About that Time 15:21


For those of us who cut some of our musical teeth in the fusion days of the 1970's, the Five Peace Band represented something of a dream come true. Chick and John. John and Chick. The guiding forces of Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever, as well as bandmates with a Miles connection, were putting together a "dream team" band, recording, and tour. Wow! Of course, John and Chick had recorded together outside of the Miles context, and played duo sets in Europe over the years. They would go on after the 2008-09 Five Peace shows to reunite a version of the group for a few more 2011 dates, and they played again at some Chick birthday related runs at the Blue Note in NYC. As for the rest of the 08/09 "dream team", Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride, and either Vinnie Colaiuta or Brian Blade had their own incredible abilities and pedigrees.
With all of the energies and inspirations, commitments and 21st Century touring realities, this was not going to ever be an ongoing ensemble. Thankfully, several shows were captured with both Vinnie (who left to go on the road with Sting) and Brian on the drum stool. This night of performances came from the final night of a run at Tokyo's Blue Note. The second show was shared here on DIME in 2009 by catpochi, and that's where my copy of that one originated (many thanks to catpochi). The 1st show came to me from someone in a long ago cd-r snail mail trade, and big thanks to whoever recorded it and sent it my way. The dimebot archive shows catpochi's share of the 2nd show only running once in 2009, and seemingly this will be the first run here to include the first show.
I came across the discs and first believed I had duplicate copies of the same set because neither was labeled as a first or second show. My intention was to rip one of the 2 disc sets to an HDD, and discard all four discs. Thank goodness, I listened to parts of each, and also came across a Japanese boot site selling discs from this, as well as a couple of other nights from this run. Boo to the boot site for profiting from ROIO's, of course, but my auditioning the discs, and info on the boot site made it clear that I actually had 2 shows from this same night.
I used Audacity to retrack the discs relative to actual starts of performances and to trim out a bit of dead air prior to introductions and in the period of the 2nd show encore applause. That point of the show was already trimmed and faded in my copy of the 1st show. Each show had been well recorded, but originated of different equipment and from different locations in the club. The recorder had presumably been pretty close to the bass amp and drums during the first show, so I employed some of Audacity's tools to try to even things out a bit in that regard. The 2nd show was grabbed on a type of recorder I had also used. I knew a bit about how to finesse some of the limitations of the device's internal mics. Audacity's tools were employed in a slightly different way from the first show to treat the second, but each of them now emerges with arguably better clarity and depth in this share than how they'd once sounded on my discs. Please check the samples to hear what you'll be getting.
Finally, here's something you could either grab through this share, or you could choose to fork over $74 USD to a Japanese boot site for the recordings without the treatments that have newly been applied here. Hoping you'll make the correct choice, and now enjoy revisiting the exciting times when these incredible talents all combined. If anyone has other good recordings from Five Peace Band tours, please consider bringing them back again for those who might've missed them on an earlier run. If anyone is sitting on some that haven't been widely shared, please particularly try to get them out to the rest of us.


catpochi's 2009 lineage info is pasted in below:

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Lineage
Edirol R-09 (24-bit/48 khz) with built-in microphone > PC > Goldwave (Converted to 16-bit/44.1 khz) > FLAC frontend (Level 8)