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I always find this series highly enjoyable and among Petersons best work.

Agreed and very recognizable. When I was in Gent last weekend I visited 5 record stores and didn't buy anything, nor had I seen anything interesting. They all had a coffee bar filled with people who probably call themselves 'hip'. Some of them had enourmous ammounts of second hand bins with the same 1 dollar crap. All unsorted which really doesn't make me want to explore anymore. Small jazz sections with the same Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins compilation LP's no one is interested in. Yikes...

Yeah that’s a great one. I love Elmo Hope. I agree. There are some very good arts but also less interesting parts. It’s too inconsistent.

Great stuff! Would love to visit if I’m London. Still looking for the ‘90’s Vortex recording by the same trio.

For only 10 a piece a special price according to Barry Guys wife! Happy to the add these to the collection.

Yeah! So glad to have seen them. Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lovens. They only played for like 45 minutes but it was worth the long drive. Their playing was amazing, still at the same level as ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. the whole setting was lovely. Admission was completely free, a festival setting in the middle of a park in Gent, Belgium. I walked in a half hour before the start, got myself a nice Belgian Tripel, sat down listening to the birds for a while and then these guys started playing. Unforgettable experience. After the concert I was able to buy three cds by them for only 10 euros a piece from Barry Guys wife

Yeah I once made the mistake to skip a McCoy Tyner gig, thinking he would come to the Netherlands again but he didn’t and died a year later. I very much regretted that decision. Evan Parker plays in Belgium so that’s a 3 hours a drive for me but I decided to bring me wife and make it a two day trip to the city of Gent

Preparing for seeing mister Parker live coming Thursday! I now also see I need to dust off my Kallax 😳

Steve’s last solo recording. Captured in great sound.

I agree fully great line up

That’s one my Adderley favorites. Great stuff indeed.

I’ve read some reviews here and there on the internet by attenders of several gigs that her latest concerts are not good. Some say she seems to be drunk or intoxicated forgetting lyrics and tunes to play, mumbling instead of singing. I don’t know. I’m no fan but hope she’s okay.

it surprised me that it wasn’t sold out but that there were THAT little people shocked me. You know the Bimhuis of course Niko so both the right and left section were completely empty and the middle section was probably filled only half. I seriously think there were less than 50 people. I felt secondhand embarrassment… Artists of this stature don’t deserve that.

That is exactly what I meant. He hardly let anyone solo. Even when Altschul, von Schlippenbach or Fonda were soloing briefly he couldn’t resist to pick up his horn and play right trough it. It annoyed me a bit but the others made it up. Altschul is 82 but still plays very energetic and powerful. I already said enough about von Schlippenbach

Barry Altschuls 3Dom Factor with Joe Fonda and Jon Irabagon. With a guest appearance by no other than the 87 year old Alexander von Schlippenbach! I feel so ashamed that there was hardly any crowd. I think probably less than 50 so more than three quarters of the seats were empty. What the hell? If these guys can’t fill those seats this must mean it’s the beginning of the end of improvised music in NL. And in the meanwhile tens of millions were watching Eurovision. What a strange world. Anyway the guys played 60 minutes of the finest improvised music. I’d say the only downside was the small amount of space for Mr. Schlippenbach. He was in great form but looked fragile. Great gig.

Not sure if I know exactly what you mean but is it something like JC Heard is doing here from 2:35 when OP starts soloing?