Jazz Mandolin Project
October 19, 1995
The Last Elm Cafe
Burlington VT

source / lineage:
Schoepps "on stage" > DAT > Sony D6 Master Cassette > Sony RCD-W50C (w/ SBM) -> xAct > FLAC

disc 1:
1. Mandoneon
2. Full House
3. Nozani na
4. Milestones in the Sunshine
5. Ballad for Gordon
6. JMP / Last Elm speech
7. The Opera

disc 2:
1. The Gourd
2. Stockholm Smokepipe
3. Nardis
4. Monkey Blake
5. Contois
6. "someone please book us a nice gig at UVM"
7. The Country Open

disc 2 filler:  May 19, 1993
Smith Opera House, Geneva NY
8. unknown title
9. Georgia on My Mind
10. Nozani na
11. Harmonic Tinge

personnel:
Jamie Masefield: mandolin
Stacy Starkweather: electric bass, FX
Gabe Jarrett: drums

Here's some classic JMP from the tiny Last Elm Cafe. I caught almost every one of their gigs there between the summer of '95 when I moved to Burlington (and for a while, lived just a few doors down from the Cafe) through May of '97 when they completely outgrew the space. Even by the fall of '95, there were typically dozens of people hanging around the outside of the Cafe during these shows, even in the dead of winter, since the room only fit about 50 people.  There were two of us who were almost always taping these concerts ... the owner of the Schoepps which were set up directly in front of the musicians, and me. I ran my Sony D6, and he ran a DAT machine ... however, I fell out of touch with this guy over a decade ago (you out there, buddy?) and have never seen digital copies of these gigs turn up (but they DO exist). These analog masters still sound pretty sharp, hope you'll enjoy.

Filler notes:
Personnel on filler is unknown, though my best guess is that jamie is joined by Noel Sagerman and drums Ian McDougall on bass, since that's who he brought when I "booked" the JMP for a gig at my Hampshire College dorm in December of '93. Source also unknown ... received as filler in a trade about a dozen years ago, so there are at least a couple of cassette generations in there. Still, it's some of the earliest JMP I've found anywhere.
