Lots of digital audio artifacts/pops/hiccups. Bob French throws to the Fairgrounds and then do we hear someone at the Fairgrounds? No, we hear a CD. OK. Cousin Dimitri and Missy Bowen. Stream is being weird. The audio is breaking up.
The Lee Boys, sacred steel. Hey, remember to turn down the DJ mics. Duh. Then it stops altogether. More digital glitches. Some bad noises here... Amazing Grace. Starts out slow. I'm guessing it will get manic later. Starting to speed up. Good, it is dragging. Then it is faded out. That's it? What a letdown.
Legacy: Students of Alvin Batiste
Ug. Not my kind of music.
Whoever is speaking (onstage during the Alvin Batiste segment), we can't hear you because the sound crew hasn't got your mic up...
DJs come on LOUD, distorting. Good, OZ.
Now they go to the Hot Club. Good. Too bad they didn't tell us anything about not airing yesterday, nor do they have it on the schedule for today. But what of that?
Nice, they go in JUST as the band is starting. That might seem professional. That's a first. Lots of digital glitches in the stream though. Hiccups too. I would enjoy the music more if the stream was normal... I do like this stuff and the band is good.
Vocal mic is low.
NIce, slow swing. Low level then comes up. Johnson's Dilemma.
Than bandleader tells the crowd this is going out on WWOZ unless there are any technical dilemmas. Technical dilemmas? On OZ? Are you kidding?
Nice, sweet tune.
DJ
Classic Hot Club tune.
A HOT tune!!
Lena, Queen of Calafia? Cool. Wouldn't it be nice if they broadcast
the New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra? (Please, someday?) A
Yiddish theme at the end.
New Orleans.
Good mix, good levels although I am not checking. No distortion
heard. Just listening through iTunes plugged into the stereo.
If they're finishing up now, OZ will have 2 hours to fill before the
next act. Rehashes of previous shows?
Cousin Dimitri w/ Missy Bowen. Duck Po Boy?!
OZ hasn't straightened out the problem with the NOLA.com blogs yet.
They link to two different URLs, to two blogs with different logs and
only one shows my comments. (They have the same stories.) Tom Morgan
said they were working on it last Sunday, 4/27.
The Hot Club is not on the OZ schedule web page. That'd be too much
work to have the correct info updated.
Snooks Eaglin acoustic. Must have heard him at the 70s Jazz Fest.
Oh, The Rhaposidizers. See that poster I have. Radiators! Oh, the
heartache in these songs. Love it. Magdelana? 7 Devils.
Good talk from Missy and Dimitri on Jazz Fest.
(The Nevele? No, not that Nevele... Nevilly as in of the Neville Bros...)
Truly bizarre but cool "2nd and Dryades" cut. Good bass drum sound.
Talky Jazz Fest guy. Glad there are sharp people working there. Scott Aegis?
Herlin Riley. I was very impressed with his drumming last year w/
Dave Torkanowsky on Piano Night.
Good to hear Tom Piazza.
Carolina Chocolate Drops, wish I had heard them. I love the black
stringband sound. (Louie Blueie!)
Big Jay McNeely rebroadcast on now. Piano is low in this mix too! Why
would it be any different...
3:42 NY time (I stop recording) An hour or so before The Bad Plus
come on... I should like them.
Same lousy mix they had before. Sax is low, vocals are low. Spoken
pieces are almost impossible to hear. Kinda embarrassing, isn't it?
4:03 NY time. We hear a DJ laughing over the (incredibly low level)
music. Are they aware the mic is on?
DJ IDs. Much higher level than the music. Keith (happy idiot) and
Willard Jenkins And Bob French coming on later. That's too bad. He's
a griot? (Guy pronounces it 'griat'...)
Level comes up to a normal level during Let The Goodtimes Roll.
Stream dies. No. They just kill the audio in mid-song. Good job, OZ.
They don't even fade it down, just kill out outright. Stupid.
The Bad Plus has "acheived"? "an interesting audience synergy...",
Willard Jenkins.
Willard Jenkins - "LONiappe?" I thought it was lagniappe?
"Entuned." No, you're not entuned. You are tuned to... 'Entuned' is
not a word. The DJs also like to say 'keep it locked on WWOZ.' OK, if
they must. It's retarded but OK.
They go to the Bad Plus at 4:40 NY time.
I think I see where these guys are coming from. Maybe I won't like
them after all. Too based in straight jazz. Next? (Ah, they used a
theme by Milton Babbit, who I know is not jazz at all but it sounded
familiar... and more...)
Vocal mics are low. Get better. Ethan sounds like a nerd.
Second tune has hints of being interesting but isn't. (Sounds a
little like John Zorn's Masada or Battle of Algiers)
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears). Some nice moments.
DJ butts in. Level is good. ID. Shut up, DJ.
My Friend something. Totally boring.
next tune. More of a rock tune. Kinda nice. Get's my head bobbing.
Joe Jackson-esque.
Old Money - by Ethan. I'm not going to like this... It gets better.
Bass, what note are you playing?
I miss some. No big deal.
Physical Cities. He intros band and each member plays a little
doo-dad. Heavy, man. But not too heavy. I liked the ending until the
drums came in. Level goes up at end. Why? Crowd loves it. More
minimalist music should be played in NO.
Life On Mars (David Bowie). Ah, yes. The climax comes through! A
different kind of audience...
They go right to the John Hammond Quartet. Cool.
His vocal mic is out of the mix. Good.
Hearing what sounds like a close-mic of someone chewing. Probably a
digital artifact.
His harmonica is also low in the mix. Great!
Butter!
Hear some coughing. Is it DJs or on stage?
Eyes Behind Your Head. Hear alot of crowd noise. Don't you hate it
when people aren't paying attention to the music. It's rude. I am all
for crowd effect but in this case, I'd turn them down some since they
are taking away from the show.
Harmonica is still low in the mix. Hello, sound people...? We hear
people clapping. Overmodulated bass. We hear background vocalists
better than John. I have to wonder what planet the sound people are
on when they don't fix obvious flaws in the mix by the end of the
set. Sad.
Is this rain we hear while they interview Mark Samuels, or white noise?
One good thing, the DJs haven't been butting in every two seconds to
give a station ID and then repeat that several times before they went
back to the music. That's a relief.
Yeah, it's raining down there.
They go to Marva Wright at 7:10 NY time. (3:13:11)
6:00 - 7:00pm - Marva Wright & the BMWs with guest Al "Carnival Time" Johnson
(I miss some of this)
She talks about losing weight. Dedicates her set to Ed Bradley. Horns
are out of the mix then brought in. Let's Make Love. Overall level
goes down. Why? Now it goes up. Bozos.
Mix is good now.
blues
ID, shut up DJ. Just go back to her, don't talk about it.
Got My Mojo Working. Tinny sax sound, probably intentional. Now the
sax is loud. Now it's out of the mix. Whatever.
'How many of you are from away?' That's what they'd say if you were
up in Maine...
Proud Mary. (I think I'll watch the tv news during this.)
Nobody, You Ain't Got No Drawers On Ya... OK. The band isn't wearing
any underwear. What can i say? Make it swing?
boogie. Good band. Crowd singing along. Not sure what they're
singing. All Night Long, aha.
I'm looking forward to seeing whatever AT&T shows us tomorrow.
Are you recording these streams?
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