HOLY SMOKES! :excited:
Top concert next to Brözzimonsteronzetett and Dylan... holy smokes! Sat two metres from Lovens (no, I definitely hadn't seen him before, I would have clearly remembered!)
Fantastic concert, great tenor by Parker, and Lovens was amazing every second of it!
Schlippenbach was - not unexpectedly - the weakest link, sometimes he seemed to be rumbling, often he fell into Monk clichés, but every now and then he kind of switched and was *on*, all of a sudden, spitting out stuttering lines of stark beauty, humming along and delving into a zone. As a unit the trio was fantastic, really! Forgot to add: holy smokes! (Or should I make that - seasonally fitting - constipated christ!)