Russell Batiste & Friends May 1, 2008 New Orleans, LA @ The Howlin' Wolf Neumann TLM-170 (cardoid, just in front of the SBD) > Apogee AD1000 > Teac DAP20 (@16 bit/48 khz) > Sony R500 > Sound Devices 722 > Soundforge Pro 10.0b ("Clipped Peak Restoration" applied to 1st 5 minutes, 15 seconds of show.) (Volume normalization, sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings) > CDWav > flac > CDR Disc One: 01. ? > 02. ? 03. Fire On The Bayou > (w/ Leo Nocentelli & Jason Neville) 04. ? -> 05. Smokin' (?) 06. Cars [Gary Numan cover] (w/ Page McConnell on vox) 07. Pull Up To My Bumper Baby > 08. Lady Marmelade 09. banter - check this 10. Mother Funk Ya 11. banter - give it up for Oteil 12. The Hype And The Hoopla (w/ Leo Nocentelli) 13. Ain't No Use (w/ Leo Nocentelli & Jason Neville) 14. Cissy Strut (w/ Leo Nocentelli, Mike Gordon, & DJ Logic) 15. banter - band intros 16. ? (w/ Bernie Worrell & Mike Gordon) Russell Batiste - drums Kenny Kane - bass Tom Fitzpatrick - tenor sax MC - trumpet 909 - tenor Kako - keyboards Page McConnell - keyboards KC Jr Ian - guitar Rita Batiste, Tiffany Jackson - vocals Disc Two: 01. banter - bringing up Willie Soul (?) 02. The World Is So Crazy (?) (w/ Willie ?Soul?) 03. Jam With Me (?) (w/ Willie Soul) 04. Most Events Are Planned += (w/ Page McConnell on vox & Eric Krasno) 05. outro --------------------------- DJ Logic & Jason Miles: Global Noize May 1, 2008 New Orleans, LA @ The Howlin' Wolf Neumann TLM-170 (cardoid, just in front of the SBD) > Apogee AD1000 > Teac DAP20 (@16 bit/48 khz) > Sony R500 > Sound Devices 722 > Soundforge Pro 10.0b (Volume normalization, sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings) > CDWav > flac > CDR 06. crowd/tuning 07. ? 08. banter - band intros 09. Bollyhood (w/ Falu on vocals) 10. ? 11. ? Disc Three: 01. banter - Bernie speaks 02. The Souk (w/ Falu on vocals) 03. banter - Falu appreciation 04. Planetary Beat 05. banter - we'll come to your town 06. A Jam 4 Joe (w/ Falu on vocals) 07. thanks/encore break 08. Spice Island 09. thanks/outro DJ Logic - turntables, effects Jason Miles - keyboards Billy Martin - drums Bernie Worrell - keyboards Oteil Burbridge - bass Carl Burnett - guitar Karl Denson - saxophone, flute Topaz - saxophone Christian Scott - trumpet Falu - vocals Global Noize notes: So this is BARN43, the other half BARN42 -- the Global Noize set at the Howlin' Wolf from Jazzfest 08, after the Russell Batiste and Friends set that I previously posted. Jason Miles and DJ Logic were able to bring together a lot of BIG names on this stage for this show -- Billy Martin, Karl Denson, Oteil Burbridge, Bernie Worrell, Christian Scott, Topaz. The music is definitely some sort of hybrid jazz/world beat. I guess the night of the show, it felt a little strange after a pretty great funky throwdown opener, also with lots of big name special guests, to have a band play much more "head trip" oriented jazz/world beat combo, late at night in New Orleans. Well maybe if I was one of those who indulged in certain substances it would have made more sense, but I wasn't. Anyway, upon listening back now, it's a really killer set of music if you're in a certain mood for sure. I think I appreciate more now listening at home than I did that night. You can really hear the personalities of each of the individual musicians coming through in the music -- Billy Martin, Karl Denson, Oteil Burbridge, and Bernie Worrell, in particular, sound exactly as you might expect them to sound, and they mesh really well on the unfamiliar material. Long live Jazzfest, and my appreciation series continues. :-) Enjoy! Scott ====================== Russell Batiste notes: Note that the guest sit-ins I've noted above are best guesses based upon my listening and Russell's onstage banter. It's pretty likely that Eric Krasno sat in on some other songs. And how many songs Oteil played on is somewhat unclear to me. There are some bad problems with Jason's vocal mic on track 13 The first 5:15 of this show is slightly distorted. For some reason I had my mic levels too hot and they were distorting. I can't remember sure why this happened. I did my best to repair it with Sound Forge's "Clipped Peak Restoration" tool, so it's very listeable; but once you get past the 1st 5 minutes, it's generally clean sounding (except for occasional on-stage audio/mix glitches that were ouside of my control). Transferred, Mastered, and Tracked by Scott Bernstein (5/15-20/2010). Taper notes: OK, for my next installment in my BARN "New Orleans Jazzfest Appreciation" mini-series -- #42, I present this nice set from Russell Batiste and Friends for you. This was an interesting night at the Howlin' Wolf -- lots of special guests rotating in and out. Frankly, we went to this show for the Global Noize set (which they promoted by announcing Billy Martin, DJ Logic, Oteil Burbridge, Karl Denson, Topaz, and others -- a set with a lot of potential, having an A-List set of musicians all playing outside of their elements), but the opener wound up being this Russell and Friends set, which had some of the same guests but many others. Frankly, I felt completely satisifed that I had seen a great show after this set, and the Global Noize set was gravy. In fact, I think I even enjoyed this set more than the Global Noize set, as it was a lot funkier, whereas the GN set was more jazzy. Either way you'll get to decide for yourself as I'm going to post both for you to listen to. The night is a little tiny bit of a blur for me, so I can't recall why I let the levels overload for the 1st 5 minutes, and I also can't recall exactly which guests sat in on which songs (though I've made a good stab at it), so if your memories are better than mine, please help out. Enjoy! Scott