Buried Treasure in your own yard! Part one...

 

One of the things that many of you can testify to is that when you have a ridiculous huge digital collection, things can hide from you in your own files... even stunningly good stuff that you never got around to listening to! There was a time when I was into live recording trading and to this day there is a Live and Unreleased file on my hard-drive that has a bunch of stuff that I never quite got around to listening to. Now that I am officially in the 'old fart do it now' mode, I make a point of exploring what is there at least once a month. Today was that day and I found 2 jaw dropping gems... both in FLAC! I am relatively sure that I never actually listened to either of these recordings as it is tough to believe that I would not remember. Here is part one of what will be a two parter! The following comes from a text file in the file...

Red Rodney, Ira Sullivan & the Jack Wilkins Trio

Amsterdam (de Meervaart), International Jazz Festival, 9 August, 1980

The Jack Wilkins Trio with guests Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan at the International Jazz Festival Amsterdam (de Meervaart), Saturday 9 August, 1980. My taping of the direct Dutch radio broadcast.

Ira Sullivan arriving a little late on stage, thinking the Jack Wilkins Trio would play a longer set; Rodney and Sullivan had never played with Wilkins before.

There was a news bulletin (of almost 5 minutes) in between "Mr Oliver" and the following track, causing these tracks to be incomplete and  fading in, respectively.

Any info on the two "unknown" tunes is of course appreciated.

Enjoy!

Personnel:

Red Rodney (tp,flh), Ira Sullivan (tp,flh,as,fl), Jack Wilkins (g), Ron McClure (b), Billy Hart (d)

Track list:

1 Announcements

2 Unknown

3 Mr Oliver (nc)

4 Unknown (fading in)

5 Dolphin Dance

6 Monday Dance

7 The Red Arrow

8 Announcements

9 Happy Birthday into Buzzy

Lineage: FM > tape > recording, tracking and editing wav file in Audacity > CD-R > Wav > TLH (Flac 8, sector align) 

Audio quality:

A- (FM)

There it is, that is what I got... Hell, I didn't even know that I had it!