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June 5th
1 show
1 tape
Years
2026
47
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30d477
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3 tapes
2025
27
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2024
2
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7d00m
30d216m
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2023
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1 tape
2022
27
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7d00m
30d273
5 shows
7 tapes
2021
7 shows
7 tapes
2020
1 show
1 tape
2019
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7d754m
30d132
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11 tapes
2018
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2017
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7d00m
30d18m
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17 tapes
2016
9
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7d00m
30d91
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7 tapes
2015
12 shows
21 tapes
2014
9 shows
11 tapes
2013
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22 tapes
2012
22
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7d00m
30d222
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14 tapes
2011
20
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7d00m
30d203
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22 tapes
2010
3
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30d341m
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22 tapes
2009
23
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30d233
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40 tapes
2008
17 shows
31 tapes
2007
16 shows
29 tapes
2006
13 shows
18 tapes
2005
17
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2004
4
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23 tapes
2003
26 shows
28 tapes
2002
19 shows
21 tapes
2001
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30d173
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29 tapes
2000
1
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17 tapes
1999
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1998
5
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7d00m
30d541m
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1997
23
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7d213
30d233
6 shows
6 tapes
1996
9 shows
12 tapes
1995
4
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7d426m
30d426m
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7 tapes
1994
12
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7d17m
30d122
3 shows
4 tapes
1993
9
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48h00m
7d852m
30d91
1 show
1 tape
1997
7/18/97
intro
0:38
Thursday The 12th
6:33
The Gobbler
11:09
banter - band intros
0:24
Shake, Shake, Shake It Baby
6:38
Revolution
5:54
Lively Up Yourself
6:37
No Woman, No Cry
5:39
banter - the talking is iso infringing
0:25
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
8:29
banter - one more song
0:20
The Hackler
13:33
FIN
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Taper: Scott Bernstein
1:06:19
Rating:
10.00 / 1 rating
Taper:
Scott Bernstein
Transferrer:
Scott Bernstein
SHNID:
charliehunter1997-07-18
Source:
Audience DAT
Lineage:
Master recording: Schoeps CMC54 -> Sonosax -> Denon DTR-80p (master@16/44.1khz) DAT playback: Sony R-500 -> Sound Devices 722 digital input (@24/44.1) Mastered: Spectralayers 11 to scrub prominent crowd chatter; Normalized to -0.1db and dithered to 16 bits in Adobe Audition 25.0.0.47. Tracked in CDWave 1.98. IDv3 tagged in Tag&Rename 3.9.15
Taper Notes:
View NotesCharlie Hunter - 8 string guitar/bass combo Calder Spanier - alto sax Kenny Brooks - tenor sax Scott Amendola - drums Eric Steinberg - sound mix Dean Bowman and Soul Trilogy played during setbreaks Melvin Sparks played before Charlie Hunter Fatbag played after Charlie Hunter Recorded, Transferred (4/1/2012), tracked (11/13/2019), mastered (1/21/2025-3/4/2025), tagged, and posted (3/5/2025) by Scott Bernstein. If memory serves, I was patched out of Craig Savarick's Scheops microphones. Photo included with this posting is the Village Voice ad for the show, reproduced from "Wetlands NYC History: A Visual Encore" (c) 2014 by Laura Bloch Bourque Taper notes: Finally bringing you guys another archival release in my archive series -- for BARN267, I am bringing you another Charlie Hunter recording (I last posted a Charlie Hunter recording in this series from San Francisco in 1997 in 2021, and a recording of his band TJ Kirk in 2014) from his "prime" period -- when he had his quintet (with Scott Amendola on drums and two sax players -- Kenny Brooks on tenor and Calder Spanier on alto) going strong and had recently released his KILLER song-for-song cover album of Bob Marley's "Natty Dread" album. This performance at the Wetlands Preserve in NYC pulls heavily from that album -- in a VERY welcome way. This is a performance by a joyful band with a lot of obvious chemistry and makes for a great listen! Unfortunately the prime period for this band would be shattered only a few months later by the untimely and tragic death of Calder Spanier in December 1997. Charlie would return in 1998 with a new project called "Pound For Pound" which had no horns in it. Setting the scene -- this was a sort of "jazz festival" at Wetlands night -- hence the short set (and as referenced by Charlie in his banter, there were apparently a lot of record label guests in the audience) -- with Melvin Sparks opening (I LOVED him, but perhaps didn't know who he was yet at this point) and the band Fatbag (which included Adam Deitch among others who would go on to form Lettuce a couple of years later) playing after Charlie Hunter, and Dean Bowman's band Soul Trilogy playing downstairs in the lounge. In terms of the audio -- this recording was marred by a TON of crowd chatter -- especially during the quieter songs. Charlie even makes mention of it from the stage and says that all of the talking is making it hard to do some of the quieter things they were trying to do. This is a recording I've wanted to get out since 2012...and I worked on it a bit here and there over the years, but it's a good thing for us in 2025 I now have Spectralayers 11 software. It works some magic in wiping away that layer of crowd chatter from the music -- though not without a lot of work on my part to get it right. I spent about 5 days getting rid of most of the rude crowd chatter -- and still left a little bit of the crowd noise so as not to wipe away important aspects of the music (it also tried to wipe away some of the saxophone parts and Charlie's self-harmony scat vocals -- all of which I made sure to add back into the recording). Anyway, I am sure that you guys will LOVE this killer funky jazz performance featuring about 50% Bob Marley covers. I have a TON more Charlie Hunter recordings to release, so keep your eyes out for more in this series. Enjoy! Follow me on Twitter to track my postings of FREE live music and concert photography: http://www.twitter.com/scott_bernstein Or become a "fan" on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Bernsteins-Live-Music-Photos-Page/166706713365451