John Boutte
WWOZ Jazz Tent
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
New Orleans Fair Grounds
New Orleans, La.
April 26, 2025

(aired April 26 and May 4, 2025)

01. radio intro :12
02. stage intro :53
03. Smile 5:27
04. You've Got to Be Carefully Taught 1:24
05. View that Holy City 7:01
06. I Cover The Waterfront 5:08
07. Sisters 6:24
08. Someday We'll All Be Free 8:06
09. Grits Ain't Groceries 5:09
10. Nature Boy 6:28
11. My Darlin' New Orleans 4:41
12. God Loves Everyone 3:57
13. Louisiana 1927 3:47
14. The Treme Song (Down in the Treme) 3:03

Total: 61:47


This recording is primarily from the May 4, 2025, rebroadcast and includes splices from the original April 26 broadcast to restore passages obliterated by WWOZ's edits and station breaks.


Source (rebroadcast, May 4): WWOZ-FM > Yamaha TX-900 tuner > Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 > MacBook Air (M1 2020) > SoX v14.4.0 > wav (24-48)

Source (original broadcast, April 26): WWOZ-FM > Yamaha TX-900 tuner > Metric Halo MIO-2882 interface > Macintosh MacBook Pro (mid-2012) > MIO Console 5.6 > wav (16-48)

Edits: wav files > MacBook Air (M1 2020) > iZotope RX 11 Advanced (see editing notes) > xACT 2.57 > FLAC (24 bit / 48 kHz)


Editing notes
* Normalized 3.6 db
* A 20-second station ID at 6:50 into Track 5 (including first 10 seconds or so of Track 6) was replaced with a 31-second splice from the original broadcast;
* 6-7 seconds of feedback was removed about 15 into Track 6 using iZotope's Spectral Repair tool;
* A 0.08-second dropout 2:35 into Track 6 was removed;
* A 15-second station ID at 6:01 into Track 7 was replaced with a 24-second splice from original broadcast;
* A 78-second station break at 6:14 into Track 10 was replaced with a 42-second splice from the April 26 broadcast. (Playback of the performance had been paused during the rebroadcast);
* WWOZ also paused playback after Track 11 and skipped forward about 6-7 seconds. I restored the applause and first few words of John's introduction with an 11-second splice from the earlier broadcast at 4:35 into the track;
* Similarly, WWOZ paused and skipped forward about 20 seconds at the end of Track 12. I restored the section with a 21-second splice at 3:39 into the song. (Kind of a harsh edit because of differences in sound quality of the rebroadcast vs. the original.)
* Additional moments of feedback throughout were repaired using the Spectral Repair tool.


Notes
John Boutte was scheduled to perform from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. on the first Saturday of the 2025 Jazzfest.

This was recorded off the radio by Richard Russell, nolataper.

Finally, a station id at the end of Track 9 could not be replaced with a splice because during the original broadcast, WWOZ had lost the feed from the Fair Grounds for about 9 minutes;