Finally finished issue 23, the longest a single issue has taken me. In part, I was getting my head around a lot of material, including the 4-CD box set Who’s That Man: A Tribute to Conny Plank, about which more later. Also, I got caught up in other things for a bit, as can happen. But here I am.
In this issue I discuss Neil Cowley Trio’s superb and delightful collection The Face of Mount Molehill. I’ll work on getting the essay itself posted here at the site. Meanwhile, I’ll share something the zine can’t deliver: performances by the Cowley trio itself!
Here’s the album version of “Rooster Was a Witness” in a beautiful video that was shot, from the looks of it, in a beer brewery.
And here’s a live performance from Montreux, a song from Molehill as it appears on last year’s Live at Montreux 2012 DVD and CD:
The spirit of musical adventure is alive and well.
7 November 2013