Makaya McCraven 9/25/21 Hyde Park Jazz Fest, Chicago (AUDIO UPGRADE)

Makaya McCraven
September 25, 2021
Chicago, IL @ Logan Auditorium (Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts) - Hyde Park Jazz Festival - 2:30pm set
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Makaya McCraven - drums
Junius Paul - electric and acoustic basses, percussion, vocals
Matt Gold - guitar
Marquis Hill - trumpet
Greg Ward - alto saxophone
Brandee Younger - harp
original video can be found here: • Makaya McCraven, Ensem...
This version has an audio upgrade.
Matrix:
SBD } KZbin } Cool Edit Pro } WAV +
AT853 cardioid } Church Audio CA9200 } Sony PCM M10 } WAV
Mixed/synced in Vegas Video
Matrix Notes:
The audio on the KZbin video is split with mostly drums in the right channel and mostly horns, harp and guitar in the left channel. I balanced those out and put everything in both left and right, then added a touch of Richard's AT853 cardioid audience source to give it the room feel and snare echo. It sounds even nicer now. There is a 30 second segment in the middle of the first song where I had to drop out the SBD/KZbin source because it was freezing and skipping on the source video.
Performance Notes:
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival returns to present nearly 30 FREE live performances in multiple sites across Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Washington Park on September 25th-26th, 2021, including the return of the Wagner and West Stages on the Midway. As the Festival emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the program focuses on Chicago artists, many of whom will perform with very special guests.
This year the festival has commissioned Chicago drummer, producer, beat scientist and composer Makaya McCraven to create a new suite for sextet, including musicians Greg Ward (alto sax), Matt Gold (guitar), Junius Paul (bass), Marquis Hill (trumpet), and Brandee Younger (harp).
Other festival performers include Tomeka Reid with Regina Carter, Isaiah Collier with JD Allen, Juan Pastor’s Chinchano with Miguel Zenón, and over two dozen more.

[@romanyel]

Great band, great tunes. I'm a big fan of Junius' playing. Thanks for the excellent video.

[@vaninazalazar320]

❤

[@jmarvins]

i was there! absolutely astounding set anyone know what tune they play around 43 mins and forward? been stuck in my head ever since seeing it (thank god i found this video) and it's beautiful

[@matutelouis9451]

Yeah and the one at 14:00 !! killing also

[@FunkItBlog]

My understanding is that all these tunes were commissioned for this performance. I don't recall ever hearing any of them played before or since! So it's a completely unreleased body of work!

[@jmarvins]

@@FunkItBlog all i can say for sure is that they also played the piece about which i commented as part of their other set at the festival that year, the one that was outdoors at night - a friend of mine and i rushed to try to re-create it from memory lol if i remember correctly, mccraven introduced it at that set as "marquis's tune" (referring to m hill naturally) that was yet to be properly titled or released - unfortunately, hasn't seemed to appear on the records that he has put out since then!