Re-Upped : 17 Herbie Hancock live shows from the 1970s

This is just to let you know that I've re-upped the 17 Herbie Hancock concerts from the 1970s at the Herbie Hancock 53 Live Bootlegs post from 2008.

Several links there have been replaced with lossless WAV versions as well.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to track down all of the post-1981 concert links, which are almost all dead, but contributions would be very welcome.

The Ultrasonic Studios concert from 1973 has had more downloads than anything I've ever posted here, it's a great show.

Anyway check them out.

Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters (1974)

4 x Herbie Hancock on Musik Laden, German TV, 1974 Click here for more Herbie Hancock on this blog.

Freddie Hubbard - "Intrepid Fox" (live) - 1973

Twenty minutes of live Freddie Hubbard from 1973. 

Freddie Hubbard - trumpet 

Junior Cook - Tenor Sax 

George Cables - fender rhodes 

Kent Brinkley - bass 

Michael Carvin - drums 

There's a rip of Hubbard's 1975 album Polar AC on this blog a few years back here. 

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live in Bremen" (1983)

"We Almost Lost Detroit" (excerpt)



"Angola Louisiana" (excerpt)

Over two hours of Gil Scott-Heron and his Amnesia Express, live at the Kulturzentrum Schauburg in Bremen, Germany, April 18th, 1983.

Worth it alone for the Gil's opening solo voice-and-rhodes performances of "We Almost Lost Detroit", "Angola Louisiana" and "Three Miles Down", the last of these featuring a similar singalong to one I remember taking part in when I last saw him perform in 1998.

There's an intimacy in these three tracks that I haven't picked up from the other bootlegs. So this now becomes my second favourite GSH bootleg after the Bottom Line show.

Considering this has gone through a cassette generation, there's a good clarity to the recording of his voice throughout, even if he does complain at one stage that he must have "left his voice on Lufthansa". Bass guitar is a little far back in the mix from the recorder position, which probably explains the title that the original DIME seeders gave the set.

"The Bottle" (excerpt)



"Washington D.C." (excerpt)

In the band tracks, the reed and brass particularly shine through in the arrangements. There's a really superb, understated flugelhorn solo from Alonzo Bailey in "Better Days Ahead".

Lots of talk from GSH between tracks - he's still the only guy who can merge from spoken word to poetry to song without you noticing the joins, where the setup is all part of the song.

The seeders added a few other GSH songs from TV broadcasts, and a bonus live performance from Dana Bryant of Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not be Televised" from Jazzfest Berlin. Fantastic stuff! 

CD 1

1 Intro 1:26

2 We Almost Lost Detroit 5:42

3 Intro 2:13

4 Angola Louisiana 5:19

5 Intro 4:10

6 Three Miles Down 4:34

7 B Movie 16:28

8 Intro 1:03

9 A Legend In His Own Mind 5:14

10 Intro 0:30

11 Winter In America 7:49

12 Band Intro 3:27

13 Intro 1:26

14 Shut 'em Down 6:21

CD 2

1 Intro 1:24

2 Washington D C 4:39

3 Intro 1:29

4 The Bottle 14:00

5 Intro 1:08

6 Better Days Ahead 11:06

7 Intro 4:39

8 Johannesburg 7:12

bonus tracks:

9 Winter In America 4:34

"Ohne Filter" German TV March 1984 (broadcast date):

10 Not Needed / Statement 4:03

from "Keynote" (SAT1 - German TV) 1994

11 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 5:18

Dana Bryant

Jazzfest Berlin, Traenenpalast, Oct 28 1993 (FM recording)

MUSICIANS

Gil Scott-Heron - vocals, keyboards

Alonzo Bailey - trumpet, flugelhorn

Vernon James - alto and soprano sax, flute

Ron Holloway - tenor sax

Larry McDonald - percussion

Kenny Powell - drums

Ed Brady - bass

Glen "Astro" Turner - keyboards, harmonica

CREDITS & BOOTLEG HISTORY

FM broadcast to cassette, cleaned and de-glitched by Langtang and Wolf.

Originally seeded at DIME by Langtang and Wolf.

Cover art by Wolf.

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Also at 'Never Enough Rhodes'

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at the Village Gate" (1976)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at the Bottom Line" (1977)

- start here!

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at Berkeley" (1978)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live At Glastonbury" (1986)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at Glastonbury" (1986)

"Gun" (excerpt)



"Blue Collar" (excerpt)

With much buzz surrounding Gil Scott-Heron's new album, here's a half hour bootleg featuring four kicking tracks from a 1986 live show at the Glastonbury Festival, originally broadcast on the BBC. Here we capture GSH somewhere in the middle of his 12 year hiatus between "Moving Target" and "Spirits", but he's in fine voice and spirit.

Keyboardist Kim Jordan switches between synth and piano, and she contributes some particularly fine piano solos - she was a member of Gil's touring band for 12 years, also appearing on the live "Minister of Information" album and "Spirits", both in 1994.

Also appearing on those albums was the Turrentine-ish saxophonist Ron Holloway, who also played on "Moving Target" from which both "Blue Collar" and "Washington DC" appear live here. He went on to record some albums for Milestone in the 90s, including 1998's "Groove Update" which features GSH on new versions of "Three Miles Down" and "We Almost Lost Detroit". That album also featured drummer Rodney Youngs from here.

Joe Phillips' guitar adds a blues sensibility to the proceedings, occasionally rocking things out a little too much for me, but holding back (or held back) enough to not ruin things. Bassist Robbie Gordon played with GSH from 1978 until 1994. He released a solo album called "Still Growing" in 1996, which included an unusual straight-ahead acid jazz version of Gil's classic song "B-Movie".

In the comments for this post, Jamie said :

"I was at this gig as a young, wide-eyed first-time Glastonbury festival-goer. I was 16 years old, I'd just left school two days previously and had just had the best weekend of my life up to that point. What this tape omits is that 'Johannesburg' was aborted initially due to the lack of crowd response. Gil had asked the crowd to sing along with the chorus and he'd explained, patiently, that if we didn't sing up he wasn't going to do it. Cue the first 'What's the word?' bit and a fairly lacklustre response from the crowd. Gil cut the band and gently mocked our poor singing. I remember him saying something along the lines of 'OK, I know you were probably too busy pulling on a joint and missed it but this time you've gotta sing up'. The next chant of'JOHANNESBURG!' you can hear on the recording."

An anecdote about this gig from the blog Look on the Nice Side :

"I once had a pee on a fence next to him at Glastonbury festival, right after he’d just come off stage. And when I asked him if he didn’t have a hospitality area backstage and his own posh toilets, he shrugged and sad, “Yeah man, but I like to pee with the people”.

TRACKS

01 'Gun' (4.23)

02 'Washington DC' (5.05)

03 'Blue Collar' (12.30)

04 'Johannesburg' (8.44)

MUSICIANS

Gil Scott-Heron - vocals, keyboards

Kim Jordan - keyboards

Joe Phillips - guitar

Robbie Gordon - bass

Ron Holloway - saxaphone

Rodney Youngs - drums

Larry McDonald - percussion

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FM > cassette (1st gen) > CDR > WAV > trader's little helper > FLAC

Originally posted on DIME by Roofwalker.

I've converted to WAV and 320-mps from the FLACS.

Thanks to Roofwalker, and Scott for the alert!

Blogs linked to in this post are Pure Diggin', BeeQ, RockNRollaZ, Look On the Nice Side and Blaxploitation Jive. Please say hi to these folks and thank them if sample their wares, so that they keep posting.

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Also at 'Never Enough Rhodes'

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at the Village Gate" (1976)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at the Bottom Line" (1977)

- start here!

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at Berkeley" (1978)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live In Bremen (1983)

Gil Scott-Heron "Live at the Village Gate" (1976)

"17th Street" excerpt


"Must be something we can do" excerpt

Well, why not two Gil Scott-Heron posts in a row?

Following the 1977 Bottom Line show and the 1978 Berkeley show, here are Gil and the Midnight Band at the Village Gate in NYC, 1976.

Tracks not appearing on the others are the latin-funk banger "17th Street" and "Must be Something We Can Do" but it's all good, starting off with the usual kickass latin percussion jam.

This is a soundboard rip that has then been broadcast on WRVR-FM, and finally recorded on reel-to-reel quarter-inch tape. Hope you enjoy it!

TRACKLIST

01. Intro Jam (3:16)
02. 17th Street (6:12)
03. Must Be Something We Can Do (5:24)
04. It's Your World (4:45)
05. Home Is Where The Hatred Is (12:40)
06. Johannesburg (6:36)


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A DoinkerTape
SBD - FM - 1/4 inch tape
Upped at Dime by tgb25nld

Also at this blog : 

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at the Bottom Line" (1977) 

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at Berkeley" (1978)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live In Bremen (1983)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live At Glastonbury" (1986)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at Berkeley" (1978)

"The Bottle" excerpt

I joined the DIME network to see what I could bring across to the blogosphere, and the first score is this wonderful show (in FLAC and MP3) from Mr Gil Scott-Heron in Berkeley, California in 1978. Thanks to Scott for pointing me at it.

This comes from an FM broadcast. An MP3 recording of it was posted at Sounds From the Edge of the Universe earlier this year by Miles from Birds With Broken Wings.

Essentially we've got the same band - minus one percussionist - that I wrote about in the 1977 Bottom Line show post. Six months after that, it's a pretty similar tracklist, but they're playing with formats and structures a little more. Allan Barnes' synthesiser lines are coming more to the fore, but without sacrificing Brian Jackson's jazzy rhodes tones.


"Home is Where The Hatred Is" excerpt

Gil characteristically opens with local issues, attacking recent cuts to the Afro-American Studies program at Berkeley, seamlessly swinging between polemic and poetry in a spoken piece called "Them Other Niggers". This leads straight into "The Spirit of the Drum", with Gil leading call-and-response vocals with the band, most of whom are on percussion.

From there on it's all-out latin, funk and jazz with not a moment of filler. 73 minutes of joy, hope you like this one!

Tracklist

01. Intro
02. Gil's Opening Speech
03. The Spirit of the Drum
04. Hello Sunday, Hello Road
05. 95-South (All of the Places We've Been)
06. Racetrack in France
07. We Almost Lost Detroit
08. Home is Where the Hatred Is
09. Band Introductions
10. Song of the Wind (aka Blow Wind Blow)
11. Band Introductions / The Bottle
12. Johannesburg

The Midnight Band

Gil Scott-Heron (Vocals, Guitar, and possibly Piano)
Brian Jackson (Keyboards, Flute)
Allan Barnes (Saxophone, Synthesizer)
Delbert Taylor (Piano, Trumpet, Congas, Flugelhorn, Vocals)
Barnett Williams (Congas, Percussion)
Siggie Dillard (Bass)
Reggie Brisbane (Drums)

Also at 'Never Enough Rhodes'

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at the Bottom Line" (1977)
Gil Scott-Heron - "Live at the Village Gate" (1976)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live In Bremen (1983)

Gil Scott-Heron - "Live At Glastonbury" (1986)

Source

SBD or FM Broadcast (my guess is SBD to FM)
CD-R > EAC > WAV > foobar2000 > FLAC(level 5)
Upped at DIME by bootfreak82

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Herbie Hancock - Live at NDR Studios (1971)

(excerpt : first two minutes)

Herbie Hancock Bootleg #45 for the collection :

Well why not a 2nd post in a day for this blog's anniversary ?
Two hours and four minutes of Herbie Hancock and his Mwandishi band, recorded live on August 4th, 1971 at NDR Studios in Hamburg, Germany as a continuous take.

1970-71 saw a seismic change in Hancock's music - after finishing the "Fat Albert Rotunda" album at the end of 1969; his major recordings during 1970 were the Miles Davis albums "A Tribute to Jack Johnson" and "Live Evil", then his studio album "Mwandishi" was recorded on December 31st, 1970. Quite a way to spend New Year's Eve! This session comes eight months later.

In searching for information about this session, I can only see that it's changed hands between traders as a tape and then a 2 CD set for many years; and that the 50 min section of "Ostinato" has sometimes been sold in some places. My version is a Soulseek find @ 192kbps; and I thought it would be good to release this into the blogosphere.

Hope you enjoy it!
... and more Hancock bootlegs here.

TRACKLIST1. Toys (46:44)
2. Speak like a child (27:13)
3. Ostinato (50:36)

MUSICIANS

Herbie Hancock - fender rhodes, acoustic piano
Bennie Maupin - tenor sax, flute, bass clarinet
Billy Hart - drums
Buster Williams - bass
Julian Priester - trombone
Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn

DETAILS

NDR Studios, Hamburg, Germany, August 4th 1971
Thanks Max for the details.

POST CREDITS

Other albums linked to here are at San Pasquale Ent., Call It Anything, Oufar Khan, Into the Rhythm.
Please thank them if you click through and download.

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Bennie Maupin - Live In Berlin (2008)

'Prophet's Motif' excerpt

'Atma' excerpt

A great live date by ex-Headhunter Bennie Maupin recorded November 2008 at the Berlin JazzFest, donated by Upkerry14.

A very different, extended version of the "Walter Bishop Jr." track I posted a while back; some guest vocals from Hanka Chowaniec-Rybka (check the "Atma" preview above) and a good recording.

Download link below, more Bennie Maupin at this blog here.

Please thank Upkerry14 in the comments.

Bennie Maupin Quartet
Quasimodo, JazzFest Berlin, 7th November 2008

MUSICIANS

Bennie Maupin - reeds
Michal Tokaj - piano
Michal Baranski - bass
Lukasz Zyta- drums, percussion
guest: Hanka Chowaniec-Rybka, vocals (8, 9)

TRACKLIST

01. 'Walter Bishop jr.' 23:34
02. band intros 02:25
03. 'Message To Prez' 10:55
04. 'Tears' 08:00
05. 'Prophet's Motif' 05:42 (end missing)
06. 'Jewels In The Lotus' 16:59
07. 'Escondido' 14:06
08. 'Spirits Of The Tadras' 07:41
09. 'Atma' 07:18

DETAILS

Total Time : 1:36:07

source: DVB-S@256, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2 (lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)

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Peter Herbolzheimer - "Live Im Onkel Pö" (1975)

 This one's for Orgy In Rhythm's Bacoso, the first chimp in space, and generous donor of many a fresh musical banana. In order to extend the viral blog spread of his ubiquitous catch-cry : I declare this irresistably funky, jazzy big band album to be all-killer-no-filler !

When he closed down OIR for a few months last year, Bacoso allowed Ish and myself to feature some of his extraordinary catalogue online, and one of my first "OIR Classic" posts was a summary of his seven Peter Herbolzheimer albums, to which he added an eighth for the occasion, "Touchdown".

More recently, Arkadin tracked down some MP3s of this album for Ish's goldmine requests thread, and I liked it so much that I tracked down the vinyl, freshly ripped here in WAV and MP3. So thanks to Arkadin and Ish as well for leading me here ...

As the title suggests, the opener "Corean Chick" references Chick Corea's early 70s Spanish chord structures, but way beyond that it's driven by a killer bassline and has this kicking, building brass arrangement by composer/arranger Peter Herbolzheimer.

Dieter Reith's bell-like rhodes anchors "P.M", which features trumpter Palle Mikkelborg on an extended solo that takes the Miles Davis - Eddie Henderson wah-wah trip before being faced by a wall of brass madness.

"That's Live" is a souljazz stormer that has an interesting chord-cluster sequence in the middle.


Side 2 opens with "The Catfish" - a later re-release of the album also used that title. It's the album's funk bomb, with an irresistable dual flute line over Dieter Reith's ARP bass, which turns into a nicely-tweaked funky synth solo over slap bass.

Reith's "Head-Egg" has the feel of one of those post-Headhunters albums by Bennie Maupin, Eddie Henderson or Hancock himself.

Horst Mühlbradt's "Peyotl" closes the album. The opening few minutes are built around rolling chord structures that recall some of those 70s New York jazz-latin fusions by people like Bobby Vince Paunetto, mixed with a dash of cop show mystery. After that it turns into an all-out latin banger, with a great trumpet solo by Benny Bailey leading the full pack over percussive pounding by Sabu Martinez, drummer Todd Canedy and Mühlbradt himself.
So yep, not a bad track in sight, hope you enjoy this one guys.

TRACKLIST 

01. 'Corean Chick' (4:40)Composed and arranged by Peter Herbolzheimer
Solo : Ferdinand Povel (tenor saxaphone)
02. 'P.M.' (6:16)Composed and arranged by Peter HerbolzheimerSolo : Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet)
03. 'That's Live' (5:47)Composed and arranged by Jerry van Rooyen
Solo : Dieter Reith (rhodes); Jiggs Whigham (trombone)
04. 'The Catfish' (6:35)Composed and arranged by Peter Herbolzheimer
Solo : Dieter Reith (synthesiser)
05. 'Head-Egg' (5:40)Composed and arranged by Dieter Reith
Solo : Ferdinand Povel (sax) 
06. 'Peyotl' (4:45)Composed and arranged by Horst Mühlbradt
Solo : Benny Bailey (trumpet)

MUSICIANS

alto, soprano and tenor saxaphones, flute - Ferdinand Povel
baritone, soprano and tenor saxaphones, flute - James Towsey
bass - Bo Stief
congas, percussion - Sabu Martinez
drums - Todd Canedy
electric piano, clavinet, percussion - Horst Mühlbradt
fender rhodes, ARP synthesizer, string organ - Dieter Reith
trombone - Jiggs Whigham , Otto Bredl , Peter Herbolzheimer , Rudi Fuesers , Vincent Nilsson
trumpet - Ack Van Rooyen , Benny Bailey , Palle Mikkelborg , Ron Simmonds, Heinz Hobermann (tr 3 only).

DETAILS

Polydor Records, 1975
Catalogue # 2371 564
Producer - Peter Herbolzheimer
Recording and remix engineer - "Justus" Liebich
Assistants - Jürgen Arnold, Uwe Peters, Wolfgang Prey

POST CREDITS

Vinyl rip by Simon666
Other blogs linked in this post are : Orgy In Rhythm, Ile Oxumaré, Arkadin's Ark

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Herbie Hancock / Headhunters - "Live in Bremen" (1974)

'Chameleon' excerpt


'Butterfly' excerpt


'Spank-A-Lee' excerpt

To take us up to 44 live bootlegs in the Herbie Hancock collection, here's a November 1974 show from Bremen in Germany, originally broadcast on Radio Sendesaal. Hancock's keyboards (mostly rhodes, some synth n' clav) are great on this one, and the Headhunters really stretch out, with Summers and Clark punching through the mix. Maupin's sax solo is on fire in "Spank-A-Lee"

Only 192kbps, but a reasonably clear and well-mixed original broadcast recording. Hope you enjoy it!

TRACKLIST 

01. 'Butterfly' (15:30)
02. 'Spank-A-Lee' (6:48)
03. 'Chameleon' (16:46)

MUSICIANS 

Herbie Hancock - keyboards
Bennie Maupin - reeds
Paul Jackson - bass
Mike Clark - drums
Bill Summers - percussion

DETAILS / INFO

Soulseek find, seemingly not on any blogs, forums or webpages. I've converted the single wma file to 192kbps mp3; and separated the tracks with a lossless editor.

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Herbie Hancock live at the Boarding House (1974, bootleg)

'Maiden Voyage' excerpt


'Actual Proof' excerpt

What better way to start Sunday than with thirty minutes of "new" Herbie Hancock from 1974 ?

Miles from Birds With Broken Wings was recently digging through some old boxes from the 1970s, a time when he worked as an announcer at a jazz radio station, and came across a tape of this broadcast performance, which he has kindly donated to this blog.

I've checked through the main Hancock bootleg database at db.etree and there doesn't seem to be any matching entry, so I think we've got a first here, which we'll of course also add into the ever-growing Herbie Hancock bootlegs post ...

Two long tracks here. The first is an extraordinary solo piano improvisation, which over the course of fifteen minutes dips in and out of "Maiden Voyage" several times.

In the second edit here, the band joins "Maiden Voyage" before soon segueing into an acoustic version of "Actual Proof", which Hancock recorded the same year on the album "Thrust".

Bennie Maupin features strongly on flute, and I'm unaware if there are any other recordings of this track featuring Hancock on acoustic piano. Anyway, it's great stuff.

While there's no certain information on the other players, the Headhunters' lineup stayed pretty solid throughout 1974, so I think we can reasonably assume the the lineup is as below ... though there's touches of Pastorius in the basslines, but is this too early? hmmm ...

Quality note : My recording and production background has led me to be a bit of a quality fascist when it comes to bootlegs, and even though this has been through a cassette stage, it's all properly miked and mixed to the point where you're not missing any of the nuances of this great group of musicians. There's a bit of tape flutter in the last five minutes of "Actual Proof", but it's not too bad.

Enjoy this one! A big thanks to Miles, and you can check out more of his stuff at Birds With Broken Wings.

TRACKLIST

01. Improvisation / Maiden Voyage (14:57)
02. Maiden Voyage / Actual Proof (15:43)

MUSICIANS (PROBABLE)

Herbie Hancock - piano
Bennie Maupin - flute
Paul Jackson - electric bass
Mike Clark - drums

PRODUCTION DETAILS

Recorded at The Boarding House, San Francisco, 1974

MORE HERBIE

Herbie Hancock discography by Christian Genzel
Herbie Hancock discography with downloads @ BlaxJive
Herbie Hancock bootlegs - the big post

POST CREDITS

Digitisation by Miles.
Post links to Birds With Broken Wings, Call It Anything and Blaxploitation Jive

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