December 1975 was a busy month for Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz. It was Warne Marsh's first visit to Europe. They played December 3,4 & 5 at the Montmartre in Copenhagen and came back on the 27th and played yet another concert at the Montmartre. On December 28 and 29 they were at Rosenberg studio for further recordings. All dates were recorded and the result can be heard on this 4 CD box set. An amazing compilation of music from the two Lennie Tristano "pupils".
They played with the Danish musicians Ole Kock Hansen, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Alex Riel; for the later sessions they played with Dave Cliff, Peter Ind and Alan Lewitt
CD 1
1. Background Music 2. You Don't Know What Love Is 3. April 4. Kary's Trance 5. Subconscious Lee 6. Back Home 7. Blues By Lester 8. You Stepped Out Of A Dream 9. Lennie Bird
CD 2
1. Just Friends 2. Little Willie Leaps 3. Old Folks 4. Au Privave 5. Wow 6. Kary's Trance 7. Foolin' Myself 8. Sound-Lee 9. Chi-Chi 10. Two Part Invention No. 1, Allegro 11. Two Not One 12. Darn That Dream
CD 3
1. 317 East 32nd. Street 2. Two Part Invention No. 13, Allegro Tranquillo 3. April 4. Everything Happens To Me 5. Blues In G Flat 6. After You've Gone 7. The Song Is You 8. Lennie Bird 9. It's You Or No One 10. God Bless The Child 11. The Way You Look Tonight 12. Without A Song 13. Be My Love
CD 4
1. You Don't Know What Love Is 2. Lennie Bird 3. Confirmation 4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love 5. Without A Song 6. Just One Of Those Things 7. All The Things You Are 8. I Should Care 9. The More I See You 10. When You're Smiling 11. Taking A Chance On Love 12. Little Willie Leaps 13. Everytime We Say Goodbye 14. I Want To Be Happy
I bought the CD as a gift for someone, so it is still wraped. But I listened to the recordings on the Spotify several times - so much I liked it. Mike Hobbart, the FT jazz reviewer, was enthusiastic about it too, and gave it 4 stars out of five which, for him, is very rare. Anonymous
- (Oxford, United Kingdom)
