Lieven Venken & Rene Hart & Anat Fort - Trio - BubblesAll of them were surprised by the cohesiveness of this recording from 14 years ago, and how vital and fresh it still sounds. The pieces on "Bubbles" are selected for their common emotional tone from two days of recording a huge amount of wide ranging material. Standards, original compositions, free improvisations and one special pop tune we all grew up on are all treated with a sense of respect and playfulness.

Doug Rosener

the program includes Right On For The Darkness (Curtis Mayfield)

drawing directly on Argentinian folk music and full of youthful exuberance

4 incorporates a song that was originally written in 1892

but the arrival of her shady "brother" (Rafael Ferro) leaves him the victim of a ransom scheme

not episodic

also due to their artistic levels

Richter/ Wilms/ Muller/ Pagnini/ Bidoli - Biedermeier Sonatas

Vipco played this for publicity in the cover art of their 2000 release on DVD

The result is a surprisingly tender and often jubilant set of conversations with the ghosts of painful memories

and Humphrey Bogart - Jury foreman Edward Weldon (Heggie)

The analog tape machine turned and turned until they couldn't turn any more