Hi,

He was excellent! I recall him playing some of what I've heard of his
recent 'In the Morning Twilight' live CD - mostly new works, I think.
One of his new tunes has definite echoes of a Basho tune that I can't
remember the name of. Certainly his next release is looking interesting!

I think he also played some of 'Waters in Azure', although I'm not
certain since I don't have that one. On that note, I wonder what other
releases of his you and the group would recommend. I only have 'Rivers
and Bridges', which I like a lot. I'm quite curious about the records
from the '90s.

Will


On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Glenn Jones wrote:

> Hello Will & friends,
>
> Just back from a short tour of New England with Jack Rose.
>
> So how was Steffen?! Just got a couple new albums from him the mail ‹
> Unknown Music Vol 2 is especially great, IMHO.
>
> Supposedly his next album for Strange Attractors, (in the Basho style) is a
> ³masterpiece,² sayeth Chris at the label.
>
> Glenn//.
>
>
>
> on 6/30/06 5:19 AM, Will Dawson at wjdawson@... wrote:
>
>> Excellent news! I can finally retire my shoddy CD-R of this one.
>> Hopefully one day we'll see all his other records reissued. They're
>> definitely long over-due.
>>
>> It's a shame about those notes.. I enjoyed reading the various Takoma
>> reissue ones you did.
>>
>> Will
>> (looking forward to seeing Basho-Junghans in a week's time)
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Glenn Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Two bits of news of interest to Basho fans:
>>>
>>> 1. The new Imaginational Anthem Volume 2 compilation includes a live
>>> version of Basho performing ³Kowaka D¹Amor,² recorded in 1968, taken
>>> from one of the many live tapes that Basho loaned me in the Œ70s. Not
>>> studio quality, but an excellent performance of a rarely-tackled song.
>>> Basho is in good company with several other fine players on the album.
>>> I particularly like the tracks by Jack Rose, James Blackshaw, Fred Gerlach
>>> and Peter Lang.
>>> 2. The same label that issued IA2 (Tompkins Square) also plans to reissue
>>> Robbie¹s Venus in Cancer on CD later this year. (They asked me to write
>>> notes for it, but after completing four pages worth, I discovered that they
>>> expected me to contribute notes for free. I refused to humor them, and they
>>> appear to have withdrawn the commission. Still, even without my
>>> ³penetrating insights,² it¹s a mighty album ‹ be great to see it back in
>>> print.)
>>>
>>> Glenn Jones
>>> Cambridge, MA