Archie Shepp Quintet & RAI Big Band - The Teatro Corso di Mestre Venezia, Italy March 12, 1980 (FM)

Archie Shepp Quintet & RAI Big Band
The Teatro Corso di Mestre
Venezia, Italy
March 12, 1980
FM Broadcast Recording
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Cover Art Included

Lineage: FM radio broadcast by “Battiti dal Vivo”, Radio3 RAI [third channell of Italian national radio] > ITT HiFi4060 Tuner > Audacity 2.0 via Asus A7S333 C-Media CMI8738/C3DX soundcard > 44100hz/16bit .aup > flac level 8 > MP3 320kbps

00 Radiointro (In Italian) 12:16
01 U Jamaa 12:47
02 Steam 12:13
03 Quiet Dawn 5:49
04 Sophisticated Lady 9:54
05 Rock Skippin at The Blue Note 8:22
06 Big Drag 11:04
07 Come Sunday 5:25
08 Social Call 6:20
09 Round Midnight 3:19
76 mins

Lineup:
Artistic direction by Filippo Bianchi and Pasquale Santoli
Archie Shepp - tenor and soprano saxophone, voice, and piano on track 09
Charles Greenlee - trombone, all arrangements
Dave Burrell - piano
Cameron Brown - double bass
Charlie Persip - drums [but Kenny Clarke was instead announced on official listing]

RAI Big Band [Radio Televisione Italiana]
Baldo Maestri, Sal Genovese, Beppe Carrieri, Gianni Oddi, Carlo Metallo - saxophone
Cicci Santucci, Doriano Beltrame, Nino Culasso, Michele Lacerenza - trumpet
Gennaro Baldino, Giancarlo Beccattini, Marco Pellacani, Ernesto Pumpo - trombone
Sergio Coppetelli, Pino Rucher - guitar
Carlo Zoffoli - vibraphone

[maybe NOT playing here too, but part of the orchestra were also Dino Piana (trombone), Roberto Pregadio (piano), Maurizio Majorana (contrabass) Roberto Zappulla (drums), Alfredo Santoloci on saxes, and MAYBE here, as it was also announced, also Riccardo del Frà (contrabass)]

What BigO Said:
Thanks to survivor69 for sharing the show at Dime.

survivor69 noted:
One of the few shows organized by the Italian RAI during 1980 from an idea of Pasquale Santoli to unite some famed soloists with RAI Big Band, here is Shepp paying tribute to the blues orchestrations of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn with some classic tunes… Also included is a LONG radio introduction in ITALIAN with bio notes and commentaries, featuring a telephone interview with original promoter Filippo Bianchi.

JustDave's notes:
Another show from the BigO Archive via The New JDP. Not saying I am or will become an official BigO archive. It is just that I have quite a bit of Jazz shows from years of visiting BigO. So when I post one of their shows I figured I would say so. This is an awesome performance...I think you all will enjoy this one!

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