James Booker
December 24th, 1981
"Aaron Neville's Tape"
New Orleans, LA @ Christmas Party
SBD > cassette > CDR
1. When The Saints Go Marching 
2. Until The Real Thing Comes Along
3. Loverman
4. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
5. He's Got The Whole World...
6. Come Back Baby
7. All By Myself
8. That's All
filler: maybe from the Maple Leaf - date unknown
9. Tico, Tico
10. Gitanarias
11. Black Minute Waltz > Malaguena
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Isidore "Tuts" Washington 
May 6, 1984 
New Orleans, LA @ Economy Hall 
Jazz & Heritage Festival - Fair Grounds 

1 2:40 
2 2:54 
3 2:13 
4 1:42 
5 2:45 
6 1:59 
7 2:22 
8 3:22 
9 3:03 
10 Sentimental Journey 2:07 
11 When the Saints Go Marching Home 3:09 
12 2:57 
13 2:11 
14 2:14 
15 3:16 
16 3:53 
42:54 


Who is he? This is the guy who taught Booker, Fess and others how to play piano. There's a nice article about him here: http://www.offbeat.com/obfebruary2003/masters.html 
This performance was recorded three months prior to Tuts' death. 

Source: unknown mics > TDK SA90 cassette 

Transfer (July 2002): master audience cassette > Nakamichi CR7A (no Dolby on playback, head aximuth optimized) > Onkyo TX-SV535 receiver > Tascam DA-P1 > Audiomedia III soundcard > Macintosh G3 > Bias Peak 2.6.2 (brief dropouts excised, indexed, saved in .wav format) > Shorten for Mac 1.1a3 > shn files 

Transfer to flac (January 2005): shorten files > X Audio Compression Toolkit 1.4d15 > .wav files > Bias Peak 4.12 (normalized by 4.7 db, re-saved in .wav format) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 1.4d15 > (sector boundaries fixed, .wav format) > flac (level 8 compression) 

No EQ adjustments were performed on this recording. No noise reduction was applied.