Creed Taylor Produced

I’m slowly (and I mean slowly) working through my CD library of live set recordings. After last year’s “Bob James – All Around The Town” extravaganza ^[1]http://ctproduced.com/follow-bob-james-all-around-the-town/, I took a break. I’ve sent a few sets over to Kim Paris, who maintains the FM Radio Archive at archive.org. Unless the sets came with explicit details of their broadcast history, I do the legwork to track it down and then send them over to Kim.

Here are five of the most recent live Jazz artist sets in the FM Radio Archive. Each set is embedded and streams from archive.org. Each set playlist has, at the bottom left, a link to the set of the FM Radio Archive. On that page are all the set details and links to download the sets. The sets are in reverse chronological order, newest first.

If you have any live sets that were broadcast on TV or via radio that can be shared, please contact Kim.

The Art Pepper Quartet, live on 5/19/1981 at Espace Cardin in Paris, France

This radiofrance broadcast from that concert was rebroadcast on the Les Légendes du Jazz program on France Musique in March 2021.

Musicians:
Art Pepper – Alto Saxophone & Clarinet
Milcho Leviev – Piano
Bob Magnusson – Bass
Carl Burnett – Drums

Stanley Turrentine KFML Ebbets Field Denver 1975

Jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine live at Ebbets Field in Denver, CO on 3.05.1975. This concert was recorded and broadcast by KFML 98.5 FM in Denver, a free form commercial radio station at that time.

In the live set intro to Sugar, and on the intro to “Midnight and You” Stanley mentions that he hadn’t got his “money” from either CTI or Fantasy records. This was a common refrain from musicians in the 1970’s, it took much longer back then to get sales counts in via distributors. Chart success was tailed weekly by music magazines and radio station via telephone and mailed in forms, they were known to be widely manipulated through various forms of payola scandals. Frequently chart success didn’t mean sales and by implication, financial success.

Band Members:
Stanley Turrentine- Tenor Saxophone
John Miller- Piano
Tarawa Macanora- Bass
Bruno Carr- Drums

Gábor Szabó 1975 San Francisco GAMH KPFA

Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on 2/01/1975. This concert was recorded and broadcast by KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley.

Gábor had released 18 albums at the time of this concert, with his 1975 album, Macho, slated for release later that year on CTI Records sub-label Salvation ^[2]https://www.discogs.com/master/68072-Gabor-Szabo-Macho.

Musicians:
Gábor Szabó – Guitar
Richard Thompson – Keyboards
David Parlato – Bass
Bob Morin – Drums

Grant Green Live In France 1969 ORTF TV

Jazz guitarist Grant Green during his tour of France in 1969, recorded for TV by Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF), the French National Public Broadcasting network.

These 2 sets are from different events, the first features the Grant Green Trio at Maison de la Radio, and the second features the same trio with special guests Kenny Burrell & Barney Kessell (unknown venue).

Grant Green Trio:
Grant Green – Guitar
Larry Ridley – Bass
Don Lamond-Drums

Special Guests (Part 2):
Kenny Burrell – Guitar
Barney Kessell – Guitar

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Wes Montgomery Spring 1965 Europe Broadcasts

Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery at 3 stops on his first and only European tour, in the Spring of 1965. Wes and his band visited France, Holland and Belgium in late March and early April before multiple concerts at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London in April and May.

Tracks 1-4 from VPRO Studio, Hilversum, Holland on 4/2/1965
Tracks 5-9 from BRT broadcast, Brussels, Belgium on 4/4/1965
Tracks 10-11 from ORTF at Champs Elysées, France on 3/27/1965

Modern Jazz Quartet ’64 BBC Jazz 625 London UK

The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) on the BBC’s Jazz 625 TV program in 1964. Recorded and broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) in 1964, and rebroadcast on BBC Four on 4/03/2009.

MJQ famously featured Milt Jackson, whose CTI albums from 1973-74 Sunflower, Goodbye (With Hubert Laws) and Olinga remain among my favorites.

Set List:
1 Introduction by Steve Race
2 In A Crowd
3 Winter Tale
4 The One Note Samba
5 Fugue In A Minor
6 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
7 The Sheriff

The Modern Jazz Quartet:
John Lewis – Piano
Milt Jackson – Vibes
Percy Heath – Bass
Connie Kay – Drums
Special Guest – Laurindo Almeida

UPDATES: 4/4/2026 Added TOC