Lenny White Group
in Boston, Mass. USA
Nick Moroch: guitar
Jeff Sigmund: guitar
Donald Blackman: keyboards
Alex Blake: bass
Lenny White: drums
promoting the album "big city"
(band is introduced after 3/24 recording.
probably the same band for all 3 sets, but not certain)
total runtime: 112:00 (minutes/ seconds)
excerpts from 3 sets:

Jazz Workshop February 23, 1977 (38:09)
1: 6:33 (cuts in)
2: sorceress 9:22 (cuts in)
3: 8:32
4: 8:05
5: 5:37 (cuts in)

Paul's Mall March 24, 1977 (32:32)
1: 4:54 (cuts in)
2: 6:42
3: ? 4:17
4: the sorceress > 8:47
5: big city ? with drum solo 7:51

Paul's Mall March 27, 1977 (41:18)
1: Lenny talks and tuning 1:59
2: mandarin fantasy 5:30
3: Lenny talks 2:43
4: dreams come and go away 4:04
5: big city 6:16
6: sweet dreamer 11:36
7: the sorceress 9:11

Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
(all are incomplete sets)

Performance quality: B+ (They're all the same band,
but some different songs and style in each set)
Recording quality: Mostly between B and B+, 2/23 set
has some more mike obstruction than the other 2 and ranges
from a C to a B in sound quality because it suffers some for
clarity and presence, also some hiss on a couple of songs
(not alot), the rest is quite listenable.
lineage (all 3):
Sony? microphones > Sony TC- 153 stereo cassette deck (dolby off) >
master cassettes (probably Maxell UD 90 min.) >
my copy (onto Maxell UD 35-90 reels using Teac reel recorder at 3.3/4 ips) >
played on Teac X-700R reel deck into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
I don't care if you're black or white or anything in between,
do not sell this recording.
share freely, losslessly and as gaplessly as possible.

notes:
This is a rare few gigs with Lenny White and his own group.
I really wish this was his solo debut 1976 tour, of the album
Venusian Summer, because that is a very good album.
there isn't much to be heard from it either,
it was a very short tour wedged between Romantic Warrior concerts.
This is the one that followed, and it does have its moments.
the flavor of this music is funkier, Lenny is playing music of his album
"Big City", and all 3 sets include a version of his favorite RTF tune,
the Sorceress, which he wrote. I recall from seeing one of these
shows that I didn't like this album much at all, but listening to them
again, I can't figure out which one was supposed to be the weak show.
I recalled years ago, one sounded very hot and jammy, (the least good
quality and least complete recording, of course, probably the February show),
one sounded decent, performance good but not great, and one of boring
poppy funk. Well, maybe my tastes have aged (along with me), cuz they
all sound somewhat different in style of the music, and after some level
balancing, now sound pretty decent, but hardly pristine.
the performances are all pretty good, just not my favorite style of his music,
especially just a year after probably his greatest tour ever imho,
(Romantic Warrior), with his other band (Chick Corea's) Return to Forever.
These are among the 1st recordings I ever made at any concert.
Parts of 3 different nights a friend and/or I went to see Lenny White,
we tried to tape all of the 3 and had some problems in a few parts
of what nature I don't recall very clearly, but most of the 3 sets are
on here. a few of the songs cut in or out, but most of them are complete or close to it.
the Jazz Workshop and Paul's Mall were located side by side on Boylston St. in Boston
even though Paul's Mall held about 350 people when packed,
and about 175 or so for the Jazz Workshop, both places had cardboard and cement walls for acoustics,
low ceilings, and were pretty crampy and depressing, though intimate places to see a show.
hard to believe RTF played both these places just 4 years earlier, but they did.
(both with Lenny). it was typical for most artists who played these places to play
2, 3 or 4 nights in a row. Al DiMeola played 3 nights at Paul's Mall early in his Elegant Gypsy tour
a few weeks after these shows (April 21-23).