2013-07-18 | Charlie Hunter

View NotesOmaha Diner:
Charlie Hunter - seven-string electric guitar
Bobby Previte - drums
Steven Bernstein - trumpets
Skerik - tenor saxophone

This show was billed as "Omaha Diner," Top 40 as you've never heard it before.  All songs have touched, however briefly, #1
on the Top 40 pop chart.   Four storied musicians attempting to re-define a format that forever perverted the way we experience music. 
You may love Top 40 (doubtful), you may hate it (probable), you may not care about it at all (liar), but you cannot escape it.  
Omaha Diner is many things: the world's definitive virtuoso of the seven-string guitar, the pioneer of saxophonics, a recipient of the 2012 
Guggenheim Fellowship for composition, and a Grammy nominee. Omaha Diner is at home in all situations in and beyond the world of music - 
not only scoring one of the films of legendary director Robert Altman, but performing in another one as well.

Sitting in a diner in Omaha, Nebraska in 1954, Todd Storz noticed that a teen-age waitress selected the same song on the jukebox over and over. 
At that moment, Top 40 radio was born, joining the TV dinner, the Reuben sandwich, the bobby pin, the ski lift, and (some claim) fuzzy dice on 
the list of famous and infamous inventions from the city that sits atop the Strategic Air Command.

<a href="http://archive.org/details/smokersworld2013-07-18.mk5.flac16" rel="nofollow">Derrick Freeman & Smoker's World</a> opened the show.

There is a higher quality 24 bit version of this recording available here: <a href="http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-07-18.mk5.flac24" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-07-18.mk5.flac24
</a>
This band's "debut" live performance is also available here (16 bit): <a href="http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-03-01.mk5.flac16" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-03-01.mk5.flac16
</a>

SOURCE 3 OF 4

1:34:00

Taper:

omahadiner2013-07-18.mk5.flac24

Source:

Audience/On Stage

Lineage:

Schoeps mk5(On Stage DFC, cardioid, DIN) -> kc-5 -> cmc6xt -> Sonosax SX-M2 -> Apogee Mini-Me -> Sound Devices 744T -> WAV (@ 24/96); WAV -> SoundForge Pro 10.0d (fades) -> CDWav -> FLAC

Taper Notes:

View NotesThis show was billed as "Omaha Diner," Top 40 as you've never heard it before.  All songs have touched, however briefly, #1
on the Top 40 pop chart.   Four storied musicians attempting to re-define a format that forever perverted the way we experience music. 
You may love Top 40 (doubtful), you may hate it (probable), you may not care about it at all (liar), but you cannot escape it.  
Omaha Diner is many things: the world's definitive virtuoso of the seven-string guitar, the pioneer of saxophonics, a recipient of the 2012 
Guggenheim Fellowship for composition, and a Grammy nominee. Omaha Diner is at home in all situations in and beyond the world of music - 
not only scoring one of the films of legendary director Robert Altman, but performing in another one as well.

Sitting in a diner in Omaha, Nebraska in 1954, Todd Storz noticed that a teen-age waitress selected the same song on the jukebox over and over. 
At that moment, Top 40 radio was born, joining the TV dinner, the Reuben sandwich, the bobby pin, the ski lift, and (some claim) fuzzy dice on 
the list of famous and infamous inventions from the city that sits atop the Strategic Air Command.


<a href="http://archive.org/details/smokersworld2013-07-18.mk5.flac24" rel="nofollow">Derrick Freeman & Smoker's World</a> opened the show.

The normal 16 bit CD quality version of this recording is available for streaming and download/CD burning here: <a href="http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-07-18.mk5.flac16" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-07-18.mk5.flac16
</a>
This band's "debut" live performance is also available here (24 bit): <a href="http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-03-01.mk5.flac24" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-03-01.mk5.flac24
</a>

SOURCE 4 OF 4

omahadiner2013-07-18.tlm170.flac16

Source:

FOB Audience

Lineage:

Neumann TLM-170 (hypercardoids, FOB almost parallel to right PA, about 15' from stage) -> Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge 10.0e (volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings; minor clap scrubbing); Tracked in CDWav. IDv3 tagged in Tag&Rename 3.7.

Taper Notes:

View NotesCharlie Hunter - 7 string guitar
Skerik - saxophone
Steven Bernstein - trumpet
Bobby Previte - drums

Omaha Diner is a project where these stellar jazz musicians re-interpret "only #1 hits" in their own style.  It's named after the original diner in Omaha, where the idea of "Top 40" music was born.

I scrubbed 12 loud nearby claps from T10

Recorded, mastered, tracked, tagged, and posted by Scott Bernstein (7/29-8/4/2013)

There is a higher quality 24 bit version of this recording available at <a href="http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-07-18.tlm170.flac24" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/omahadiner2013-07-18.tlm170.flac24</a>

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