Haslam, George - September Spring
SKU
SLAM322
"George Haslam on bass clarinet, baritone saxophone and tarogato improvising in Buenos Aires with old friends Daniel Harari, Mono Hurtado, Horacio Straijer, Ruben Ferrero and from New York, Hill Greene. Two days in two Buenos Aires studios, Spring 2006. A chance to relax with friends after a hectic three weeks touring before returning to UK, play our own music, be natural in a relaxed environment. Back with four musicians I have worked with since my first visit to Argentina sixteen years earlier, plus a relatively new friend, Hill Green, with whom I had played for the first time in New York City earlier in the year and whose visit to Bs As happily coincided with mine. The second new element was my bass clarinet, these are my first recordings on an instrument I am really enjoying. The recordings are as they came out of the studios, not all the music from both sessions can fit on the disc but the twelve tracks we have are in the same order as recorded; I believe this is essential in improvised music because what you are playing is influenced by what you have previously played on the same session, in the same way a concert of improvised music develops as a whole, not as a programme of discreet isolated tunes."