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Oregon set lists .

    This is our attempt to create a database of all known Oregon set lists from recorded concerts ,since none seems to be available on the net. I have become extremely frustrated trying to compile Oregon setlists as,unlike many other groups , there has been no repository of sets available anywhere .

So this small list is now here for all you Oregon collectors to use .Hopefully some of you will contribute your knowledge to build this base so it becomes more comprehensive.

This page is a tribute to Oregon, the fabulous jazz - world music -fusion quartet which has, over the past 30 years -featured Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Colin Walcott, Glen Moore ,Trilok Gurtu and Mark Walker.

Jazz fusion is not an adequate description of Oregons sublime music, which can vary from beautifully melodic pieces that are almost classical in form , to long dark, dangerous improvised numbers that defy classification.Other numbers have a distinctly Indian feel , where sitar and tablas mingle with jazz forms.This is why the Live Oregon experience is probably superior to their studio albums, as each concert is very different ,even if the same pieces are played each night .

If you can contribute towards updating this base , which is by no means complete- or 100% correct, or if you want to trade, please Contact us

Concert database

Oregon setlists 1980-1989

3/28/80 Catamaran, San Diego
Sony TC-D5 w/ Nak CM300 (left), CM700(right)
Early Show

  • Jam ->
  • Longing So Long
  • House of Wax
  • ?
  • Silence of a Candle
  • Roots in the Sky

Late Show

  • Jam ->
  • June Bug
  • Yellow Bell
  • Song For a Friend
  • ? ->
  • Nimbus
  • Interstate

4-07-80 Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, CA. SBD 150 mins ( also Sony TC-D5 + Nak CM-700 (cardioid stereo)

  • Improvisational
  • Willow
  • Longing So Long
  • Moon and Mind
  • At The Hawk's Well
  • The Juggler's Etude
  • Vessel
  • Cloud Dance
  • Deer Path
  • Improvisation >
  • Witchi-Tai-To

4-08-80 Campbell Hall UCSB Santa Barbara CA AUD :2 Neumann KM84 mics > Nagra 45 half track on Maxell UD at 7.5 ips

  • ?
  • ?
  • ?
  • ? (reel splice after song)
  • ?
  • ?
  • ?? (reel splice after song)
  • ?? (reel splice at 12:13)
  • ?? (reel splice after song)
  • Cubola
  • Roots in the Sky

9/20/80 - Great American Music Hall 

  • Witchi-Tai-To ->
  • Jam ->Jewelgan (???)
  • Roots in the Sky
  • Dust Devil (???)
  • Piano/Oboe duet
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Arion

9-23-80 McCabe's Guitar Shop Santa Monica, CA AUD

TC-D5 & Nak CM-700 mics

Early show

  • Never released Piece >
  • Improvisation >
  • Yet to be
  • Beneath an evening sky
  • Will you miss me when i am here
  • Beside a brook
  • Improvisation/ Moon and Mind
  • Ghost Beads >
  • Improvisation >
  • Witchi-Tai-To

Late show

  • Improvisation >
  • Julian
  • Yellow Bell
  • Improvisation >
  • Icarus >
  • Improvisation >
  • Along the way
  • Vessel

9-24-80 McCabe's Guitar Shop Santa Monica, CA AUD

Sony TC-D5 w/ Nak CM 700

Early show

  • Brujo
  • Celeste
  • Contrary Moon
  • Waterwheel
  • Buzz-box
  • Drifting Petals
  • Willow

late show

  • Roots In The Sky
  • The Silence of a Candle
  • ? >June Bug
  • ?
  • Longing So Long
  • Raven's Wood
  • Witchi-Tai-To

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9-80 Sydney Town Hall FM 90 mins

  • Beneath An Evening Sky > Improvisation
  • Roots In The Sky.
  • Untitled.
  • Nimbus.
  • Along the Way
  • Paul McCandless – Glen Moore Duet
  • Colin Walcott- Ralph Towner Duet
  • Improvisation > ?

Apparently a second concert (or the second half of the first concert ) recorded by the ABC was broadcast a week later , setlist for this was

  • Waterwheel
  • 3 songs
  • Silence of a candle
  • June Bug
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • Icarus

11-2-80 Jazzdays Berlin . Berlin Germany 72 mins

  • The Willow >Will You Miss Me When I’m Here
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Vessel
  • June Bug
  • Cloud Dance >Waterwheel

1982

1-30-82 University of Washington Seattle WA

Aud 155 w/Ralph Towner,Paul McCandless,Glen Moore, Colin Walcott

  • Improvisation >Jugglers Etude
  • Improvisation >? >Waterwheel
  • ?
  • Vessel
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Longing So Long >Improvisation
  • Impending Bloom
  • Half Past two
  • ?
  • Icarus

2/11/82 Wilshire-Ebell Theater, L.A.
Sony 153 w/ Nak CM700

  • Jam ->
  • Jugglers Etude
  • Ionia
  • Sunnyside Up ->
  • ?
  • Vessel
  • Brubeck ->
  • Half Past 2 ->
  • ?
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Waterwheel

11/1/82 Montezuma Hall, San Diego State
Sony WM-D6 w/ Nak CM700 cardioid

No setlist

11-12-82 Drumlins Country Club Syracuse NY

  • Blue Sun
  • The Juggler's Etude
  • Rain Maker
  • Travelling By Night >Improv
  • PM Song
  • Dust Devil
  • Impending Bloom
  • Icarus

1983

6-30-83 Funkhaus Studio 10 Hamburg.

  • Blue Sun>
  • Beacon >
  • Along The Way.
  • Travel By Night >
  • There Was No Moon That Night >
  • The Rapids
  • Waterwheel
  • Beside a Brook
  • Duet
  • Sky Line
  • The Glide
  • Timeless

7-2-83 Gladbeck AUD

  • Blue Sun>
  • Improvisation>
  • Icarus
  • Half Past two>
  • Improvisation>
  • Travel by night
  • Yellow Bell
  • Improvisation>
  • The Rapids
  • June Bug

7-17-83 Jazzfest Weisen 73 min FM

  • Blue Sun >
  • Half Past Two
  • Beneath An Evening Sky >
  • Improvisation>
  • The Glide
  • Walcott/Towner Duet
  • McCandless/Moore duet –
  • Simply a Gospel Song
  • The Rapids
  • Fall 77

10/19/83 Beverly Theater, L.A.
Sony WM-D6 w/ Nak CM700 mono split

  • ? 
  • Half Past Two ->
  • ?
  • Roots in the Sky
  • Iron Mike
  • Ghost Bead ->
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • ?
  • Yet To Be

10-23-83 NYC,Symphony Space NYC 90 mins audience

  • Blue Sun >Improvisation >June Bug
  • Half Past two > Improvisation(cut)
  • Improvisation >Queen of Sydney
  • .Impending Bloom
  • .Beneath an evening sky

10-28-83 Communications Center Troy NY FM 126 MINS

  • Improvisation >
  • Blue Sun >
  • Icarus
  • Along the way
  • Announcement >
  • Amarylis Part 1
  • Amarylis Part 2
  • The Glide
  • June Bug
  • Travel by night >
  • Improvisation >
  • Beside a brook
  • Fall 77
  • Waterwheel

October 1983 Merkin Concert Hall New York, NY AUD 80 mins

  • Waterwheel >
  • (improv) >
  • The Glide 33:23
  • (unidentified) >
  • (tabla solo) > (improv) >
  • The Juggler's Etude 22:36
  • Looking-Glass Man 5:41
  • Nimbus 7:50
  • Vessel 10:25

1984

3-29-84 Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA

No setlist

4/13/84 Hop Singhs, Marina Del Rey, CA

Sony D6 w/ Nak CM700 mono split

No setlist

4/14/84 Hop Singhs, Marina Del Rey, CA

Sony D6 w/ Nak CM700 mono split

No setlist

10-5-84 Music Hall East Troy #

  • Blue Sun >
  • Improvisation
  • Jugglers Etude
  • Half Past Two ( with Tabla solo)>
  • Improvisation.
  • The Glide
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Junebug
  • Witchi Tai To
  • Improvisation >
  • Yet to Be
  • Encore :Waterwheel

10-8-84 Troy Music Hall, Troy, N.Y. 113min FM #

  • Instrument Check >
  • Blue Sun >
  • Improvisation >
  • Juggler's Etude
  • Introduction and Tune-up
  • Half Past Two [with tabla solo] >
  • Improvisation >
  • The Glide
  • Beneath an Evening Sky
  • Introduction and Tune-up
  • June Bug
  • Witchi-Tai-To >
  • Improvisation >
  • Yet to Be
  • Encore banter & Tune-up
  • Waterwheel

# Its unlikely that the group played two identical sets over two nights at the same venue a few days apart, its most likely this is just one show with a badly transposed date .

10-15-84 Szeged, Hungary FM

  • Improvisation >Yellow Bell
  • The Glide
  • Waterwheel
  • Improvisation >
  • Travel by day
    Disc 2
  • Looking glass man
  • Witchi Tai To
  • Walcott/McCandless Duet
  • C.T. Kangeroo
  • Silence of a Candle

10-20-84 Zurich FM

  • The Rapids
  • Beneath an Evening Sky
  • Improvisation
  • Alpenbridge
  • The Glide >
  • Improvisation
  • Kronach Waltz

11-1-84 Riccione, Italy. AUD 82 min

  • Waterwheel >
  • Improvisation >
  • The Glide
  • Pepe Linque
  • Alpenbridge
  • Duo Ralph/Collin
  • Duo Glen/Paul
  • The Rapids
  • Icarus

11-2-84 Tala di Giganti Padova Italy SBD

  • Queen of Sydney >
  • Juggler’s Etude
  • Rainmaker
  • Improvisation >
  • Kronach Waltz
  • Fall 77
  • Waterwheel
  • Half Past Two >
  • Aurora
  • Beneath an Evening Sky

Sadly , Oregon percussionist Colin Walcott , along with crew member Jo Haerting , was killed at Magdeburg, East Germany on November 8th 1984 in a car crash , this may be the last recorded show with him as part of the lineup.

     

After a break of some months a reformed Oregon began to tour again, this time with the talented Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu as part of the band. This new lineup was possibly more rhythmic than before, but the bands sound changed to some extent as they were no longer including sitar in their instrumental blend.

1985

7-15-85 Jonathan Swift's, Cambridge, MA SBD analog master > DAT > Cassette > CD-R
Set 1

  • Improvisation > June Bug
  • Yellow Bell
  • Half Past Two (Part 1)
  • Half Past Two (Part 2)
    Disc 2
    Set 1 (continued)
  • Recurdoes (cut)
  • Pepe Linque
    Set 2
  • Innocente
  • Queen of Sydney
  • Witchi-Tai-To >
  • The Glide
    Disc 3
  • Beneath an Evening Sky
  • Introductions
  • The Rapids
    Encore
  • Waterwheel

08/13/85 New Harmony Coffee 116 Mins aud

  • Nimbus
  • Yellow Bell
  • tuning
  • Improvisation > June Bug
  • Timeless >Yet to be
  • Hawaian Shuffle
  • Improvisation > Trilok/Ralph duet
  • (???)
  • (???)
  • The Rapids
  • Blue Sun
  • (???)
  • Half Past two
  • Song for a friend

 

08/17/85 Bottom Line New York City SBD late.

  • June Bug
  • Queen Of Sydney
  • Pepe Linque
  • Improv
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Yet To Be
  • Nardis
  • Water Wheel
  • Icarus

08/18/85 Bottom Line New York City SBD

  • Tuning
  • Improvisation > The Rapids
  • Innocente
  • Witchi-Tai-To > Improvisation > Nimbus
  • Improvisation by Glen and Trilok
  • Interstate
  • Waterwheel

10-15-85 Szeged, Hungary

  • Improvisation >
  • Yellow Bell
  • The Glide
  • Waterwheel
  • improvisation >
  • Travel By Day
  • Looking Glass Man
  • Witchi Tai To
  • (wdwnd / perc duet)
  • C.T. Kangaroo
  • Silence Of A Candle

1986

07-?-86 The Spectrum Montreal Canada

  • Innocente (Towner) (9:14)
  • Improvisation (Oregon)/Ecotopia (Towner) (23:06)
  • Beneath an Evening Sky (Towner) (6:28)
  • Improvisation (Oregon) (5:03)
  • Yet To Be (Towner) (7:45)

7-6-86 DeCordova Museum Ampitheater, Lincoln, Mass. U.S.A. Aud

  • The A tune
  • Opening > Ecotopia
  • Witchi-Tai-To
    2nd set
  • ?
  • ?
  • Moore and McCandless duet
  • ?
  • band introductions
  • ?
  • ?

07-10-86 Chestnut Cabaret .Philadelphia, PA (Early Show)

  • Les Douzilles
  • The Glide >
  • Improvisation >
  • Queen of Sydney
  • Improvisation >
  • June Bug
  • Ecotopia
  • Beneath an evening sky
  • Improvisation >
  • Pepe Linque

07-11-86 Bottom Line New York City. AUD

  • June Bug
  • Opening
  • Ecotopia
  • Beneath an Evening Sky
  • Redial
  • Yet to Be
  • Introduction to Fall '77
  • Fall '86 Anticipating
  • Introduction to band
  • Waterwheel (with tabla solo)

11-16-86 The Great American Music Hall S.F.CA.

  • Innocenti
  • Pepe Linque
  • An Opening
  • Waterwheel
  • King Font
  • ?
  • ?
  • Leather Cats
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Improvisation >
  • Ecotopia
  • Icarus

11-29-86 Intermedia Centre Huntingdon NY 120 min.

  • Innocente
  • Opening > Ecotopia
  • Waterwheel
  • King Font
  • Leather Cats
  • June Bug
  • Yellow Bell
  • Nimbus
  • Improvisation >
  • The Rapids
  • Witchi-Tai-To

12-03-86 Fat Tuesday NYC 124 Mins Aud

  • Innocente
  • Improvisation >Yet to be
  • Les Douzilles
  • Roots in the sky
  • Beneath an evening sky
  • Ecotopia
  • June Bug
  • King Font >Celeste
  • Improvisation >The Rapids
  • Witchi-Tai-To >Leather Cats
  • Redial

1987

3-5-87, Fabrik Hamburg, 120 min AUD
w/Ralph Towner,Paul McCandless,Glen Moore, Trilok Gurtu

  • Improvisation > June Bug
  • King Font
  • Nimbus
  • Improvisation
  • Leather Cats
  • Innocente (cuts in)
  • Yet to be
  • Les Douzilles
  • Ecotopia
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • Waterwheel
  • Improvisation

3-8-87, Essen, AUD
w/Ralph Towner,Paul McCandless,Glen Moore, Trilok Gurtu

  • Improvisation >
  • June Bug
  • Vessel
  • Innocente
  • Ecotopia
  • Redial
  • Beneath An Evening Sky
  • Leather Cats
  • Yet To Be
  • Waterwheel

3-?-87 Burghausen, Jazzfest, , FM, 20m

  • Half Past Two >
  • Improvisation >
  • Ecotopia

3-20-87 Mayen 57 min FM

  • Improvisation >
  • Innocente
  • Leather Cats
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • Les Douzilles >
  • Improvisation >
  • Ecotopia

3-30-87 Padova 90 min FM

  • Improvisation >
  • Twice Around The Sun
  • Waterwheel
  • King Font >
  • Improvisation
  • Zephyr
  • Leather Cats
  • Ecotopia
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • Hand In Hand

6-28-87 TV Studio Freiburg Germany FM and DVD 58 mins

  • Yet To Be
  • Ecotopia
  • Waterwheel >
  • Gurtu solo >
  • Waterwheel
  • Leather Cats
  • Icarus
  • Witchi Tai To
  • Improvisation >
  • Leather Cats

7-5-87 Bolzano Italy SBD 60 min

  • June Bug
  • Improvisation >
  • Ecotopia
  • King Font
  • Beneath an evening sky
  • Leather Cats
  • Icarus

7-12-87 Montreux FM 55 min

  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • June Bug
  • I mprovisation >
  • Ecotopia
  • Nimbus
  • Leather Cats
  • Zephyr

1987 Barcelona TV

  • June Bug
  • Ecotopia
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • King Font
  • Les Douzilles

11-21-87 McCabes Guitar Shop
Sony WM-D6 w/ Nak CM700 cardioid

  • Junebug
  • Opening
  • Ecotopia
  • Zephyr
  • Nimbus
  • Leather Cats
  • Encore :Witchi Tai-To

11-23-87 Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz Ca

  • June Bug
  • Opening > Ecotopia
  • Intro
  • King Font
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • Band Intro
  • Leather Cats
  • Les Douzilles
  • Twice Around the Sun
  • Redial
  • Opening > Yet To Be
  • Beneath an Evening Sky
  • Fall '77
  • Icarus (encore)

12-11-87 Caravan of Dreams Fort Worth, TX FM

  • ??
  • ??
  • Leather Cats
  • Icarus
  • Twice around the Sun
  • Zephyr
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • Improvisation >
  • ?
  • Fall 77
  • ??

1988

7-25-88 1369 Jazz Club Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A.

Early and late ,recording may only exist of early show, six songs audience recording -no ID of tracks to date

10-30-88 Umea, Sweden FM /SBD 60 min

  • Waterwheel
  • Improvisation >
  • Ecotopia
  • King Font
  • Nimbus
  • Leather Cats
  • June Bug #
  • (# SBD, not broadcast )

 

1989

4-15-89 NYC,Town Hall

w/Gurtu,Towner,McCandless,Moore+Nancy King (voc)115 audience

  • Pagent
  • Hand in Hand
  • Improvisation >June Bug
  • King Font
  • Zephyr
  • Ecotopia
  • Waterwheel
  • Moore/King Duet - Cheek to
    cheek
  • Oregon+Nancy -Chihuhaga Dreams
  • Bombay Vice
  • Improvisation >Yet to be
  • Witchi-Tai-To

4-28-89 Performing Arts Center ,Carrboro, North Carolina. FM 110 Mins. (also known as 9-28-89. April seems more likely as Oregon was in Europe in Oct 1989 )

  • Improvisation >
  • Ecotopia
  • Witchi-Tai-To
  • King Font
  • Improvisation >
  • Leather Cats
  • Les Douzilles
  • Hand in Hand
  • Yet to be
  • Improvisation
  • Nimbus
  • Celeste

5-20-89 Israel festival - Binyanei Ha'Ooma . Jerusalem. Israel FM 1st Gen

  • Junebug
  • King Font
  • Opening
  • Pagent
  • Hand in Hand
  • Aurora
  • Waterwheel
  • Ecotopia
  • Zephyr
  • Nimbus
  • Celeste

5-21-89 Beit She'an Roman Theatre . Israel FM 1st Gen

  • Silence of A Candle
  • Pagent
  • Beneath an evening sky
  • Pepe Linque
  • Les Douzilles
  • King Font
  • Ecotopia
  • Witchi-tai-to
  • Improvisation > Leather cats

5-22-89 Israel festival Wohl Amphitheatre -Tel Aviv. Jerusalem. Israel . Not known if recorded.

 

10-11-89 Stockholm, Sweden fm 50 Min (Trio )

  • Hand in Hand
  • Pepe Linque
  • Innocente
  • Celeste
  • Improvisation>Nimbus

10-15-89 St Johannis Church Hamburg FM 100 mins

  • Junebug
  • Hand In Hand
  • Improvisation >
  • Ecotopia
  • Zephyr
  • King Font
  • Redial
  • Witchi Tai -To >
  • Improvisation >
  • Leather Cats
  • Icarus

10-20-89 Paris New Morning FM 62 Mins- also exists as pro shot DVD

  • Ecotopia
  • Celeste >
  • Leather Cats >
  • Mariella
  • Waterwheel
  • Nimbus
  • Witchi-Tai-To

10-25-89 Verone Italy 112 mins Aud

  • June Bug
  • King Font
  • Improvisation> Ecotopia
  • Yellow Bell
  • Redial
  • Zephyr
  • Hand in Hand
  • Nimbus
  • Improvisation >Leather Cats
  • Witchi-Tai-To

Vancouver 51 mins FM

  • ?
  • Ecotopia
  • Nightfall
  • Yet To Be >
  • Improvisation >
  • Junebug

 

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