James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Blues Tent
New Orleans, La.
April 27, 2024


01. radio intro -> 0:14
02. Track 2 5:06
03. Treme Song 10:13
04. Oh Happy Day (Keva Holiday vocals) 4:55
05. Ooh Poo Pah Doo 9:12
06. Li'l Liza Jane 6:55
07. When the Saints Go Marching In 6:04

Total: 42:41



source: WWOZ-FM > Yamaha TX-900 vintage tuner > Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (2nd generation) audio interface > USB > MacBook Air (M1 2020, OSX 14.4.1) > SoX > flac (44.1 kHz, 16bit) > iZotope RX 10 Advanced v10.4.0.1926 (see editing notes below) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 2.55 (tagged, sector boundaries repaired) > flac


Editing notes:
* At 10:08 into Track 3 there was a 94-second station ID (before the song even ended). Actually after the first ID, the feed reverted to the stage (for James' between-song banter) for about 16 seconds before there were canned station IDs and announcements. I felt that fading up a few seconds of banter then fading back down again then fading up the music was pointless, so I removed 90 seconds and faded down the DJ. Track 4 was faded up by WWOZ and I left it virtually unchanged;
* There was a 0.2-second broadcast dropout at 1:28 into Track 5. It was repaired with a 1.3-second splice from a near-identical passage;
* A 0.1-second broadcast dropout and glitch was removed at 7:16 into Track 5;
* There was an 8.9-second station ID at 8:28 into Track 5; I removed about 7 seconds and applied a crossfade. The edit is less than ideal;
* A 0.2-second broadcast dropout at 3:12 into Track 7 was repaired with a 2.2-second splice from a similar passage;
* A -30db notch filter was used to remove the 19kHz FM pilot tone; and
* The entire recording was normalized by 1.06 db, then the left channel was boosted another 0.29 db, leaving about 0.10 db head room.


Notes:

James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars was scheduled to play the Blues Tent from 1:35 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of the 2024 Jazzfest.

This over-the-airwaves FM broadcast was recorded (and edited) by Richard Russell (nolataper) in New Orleans. It is not from the online mp3 live stream.