"The music you hear on this DL has a distinct urgency and excitement. It moves forward in a complicated, constantly mutating web of stylistic references to musical precedents within jazz and twetieth century music, overlapped in a restless search for new textures, moods, dynamic interludes, and possible resolutions. Some listeners may feel - as others have done in the past - that sections of the Quartet's music sounds like be-bop heard at a distance or in a dream. There is certainly something in this perception. But the likeness never goes beyond mood or the resemblance of incidental allusion. Perhaps there are changes of the instrument temporarily foregrounded in the ensemble that are reminiscent of devices for handling over solos in jazz, including be-bop.But you need only listen to the rhythmic and harmonic mutations and uncertainties, or to the continuously re-defined relationships the four instruments enter into with one another, to be made aware that the music never becomes stylistic imitation or pastiche" - Alan Durant. --- Larry Stabbins / tenor and soprano saxophones Veryan Weston / piano Marcio Mattos / double bass Eddie Prévost / drums --- DL re-release of material previously issued as an LP, together with additional music. Part 1 was recorded at the Bracknell Jazz Festival on the 3rd of July, 1983. Part 2 was recorded at Porcupine Studios London by Ted Taylor. Front cover artwork by Simon Picard

First released as two LPs in 1979 - two recordings of a concert at the Cambridge College of Art and Technoloy on May 19, 1977. "More thank any other music I know of, improvisation puts the musician at the heart of the matter. Face on and with no time for premeditated artifice: technique, dialogue and heurism are put to a fiery test in performance. And, for a musician to comment upon the aesthetic implications of this work also seems to be a dangerous activity. But I for one (even if from time to time I am roved wrong) enjoy the skirmish." - Eddie Prévost, March 1993.  --- Geoff Hawkins / tenor saxophone Gerry Gold / trumpet and flugelhorn Marcio Mattos / double bass Eddie Prévost / drums --- Recorded at a concert organised by Jane and Roger Giddings given at The Mumford Theatre, Cambridge College of Art and Technology on May the 19th, 1977. Mastered By George Peckham. Recorded By Pete Nesbit. Concert Organized By Jane and Roger Giddings All tracks are as the two original LPs except the short piece "Time Immoral", which had to be omitted to fit the CD format. Front cover artwork by Allen Fisher.