# Nels Cline 4 at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, February 17, 2019 [Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse](https://www.thefreight.org/event/1789130-nels-cline-4-berkeley/) presents [Nels Cline](http://www.nelscline.com/) 4 featuring [Nels Cline](http://www.nelscline.com/), [Scott Colley](http://www.scottcolley.com/), [Julian Lage](http://www.julianlage.com/), [Tom Rainey](https://tomrainey.bandcamp.com/), and [Jorge Roeder](http://www.jorgeroeder.com/) [2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704-1104 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2020+Addison+Street,+Berkeley,+CA+94704-1104+USA&hl=en) 7:00 PM, Sunday, February 17, 2019 [[2019-02-17|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2019|Up to the 2019 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2019#February_events|Up to the 2019 event list!]] ☸ [[2019-02-22|On to the next event!]] ## One Set [7:05 PM; lights down, greetings and announcements from Andrea Hirsig, band out] 01. [7:09 PM] _Furtive_ 02. [7:22 PM] _Temporarily_ 03. [7:33 PM] _Memoir_ » 04. [7:36 PM] _Pacific Pine Song_ 05. [7:46 PM] _Swing Ghost ‘59_ [7:56 PM; Greetings, banter and back-announce from Nels] 06. [7:58 PM] _As Close As That_ 07. [8:05 PM] _Amenette_ [8:16 PM; banter and back-announce] 08. [8:17 PM] (Nels-Jorge duet on an unidentified Paul Motian tune) » 09. [8:22 PM] _The Owl of Cranston_ 10. [8:27 PM] _Imperfect 10_ [8:34 PM; final words from Nels] 11. [8:36 PM] _River Mouth_, part 1 » 12. [8:41 PM] _River Mouth_, part 2 [8:47 PM; all done! bows, then off] ## Performers * [Nels Cline](http://www.nelscline.com/): guitar; * [Julian Lage](http://www.julianlage.com/): guitar; * [Tom Rainey](https://tomrainey.bandcamp.com/): drums; * [Jorge Roeder](http://www.jorgeroeder.com/): contrabass. ## Notes I was slightly miffed when the band came out at the start of the show to note that Scott Colley was absent, but Jorge Roeder is a great bass player too, and I'm guessing that his years playing with Julian helped keep things tight tonight. I noticed just now that the Freight event page doesn't list Scott anymore, so I suppose they might have announced the change in advance ... ah well, guess I should have been paying better attention! Seems like they played most of the tracks on the new album. And wrung the heck out of them, they did! Nels introduced _Memoir_ as a tune by the late great John Abercrombie; if I didn't know better, I'd have named it as a permutation of _Nature Boy_ instead. Good to have those pauses to share proper titles! Nels looks darn good for 63 ... he made a teasing comment about Scott being 'just a sprout' or something like that in his back announce for _Amenette_, which Nels described as a remix of Scott's tune _Street Beat_ through Ornette Coleman's harmolodic sensibility, hence Amen > ette. Nels may have introduced the titles of the Paul Motian tunes, but if so, I didn't catch them. Hopefully someone else with big ears will know what he said (or what was played!). Mark pointed out that last summer, Nels played a similar set with _The Owl of Cranston_ identified as a single Motion tune. Might be one of tonight's unidentified songs. (That title was confirmed by another freakazoid, yay!) Heck... maybe one of the folks in the front row has a setlist picture to share... After the heavy duty guitar skronk of _Imperfect 10_, _River Mouth_ was a gentle transition to wind things down. Seemed to me like they could have spun out a few more variations, but hey, all good things must come to an end. Thanks guys! It was fun listening to you tonight!! ## Photos Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery! {{gallery>:2019:2019-02?20190217-*.jpg}} {{:wip.png?nolink}} **Whoa!** This section is incomplete for now, sorry! {{:wip.png?nolink}} {{tag>music Nels_Cline Julian_Lage Tom_Rainey Freight_&_Salvage_Coffeehouse Jorge_Roeder}} [[2019-02-17|Back to the previous event!]] ☸ [[:#section2019|Up to the 2019 yearbox!]] ☸ [[:2019#February_events|Up to the 2019 event list!]] ☸ [[2019-02-22|On to the next event!]]