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This cd is GOOD.!But. I want to talk about his latest.Not yet shown here on Amazon.Have just heard 'Bennink&Co" from 2012. Same people playing.Han Bennink, purely and sole on..snaredrum..Joachim Badenhorst- tenor sax and bass clarinett, Simon Toldam-Piano.This CD is balanced. Good sound. Not very experimental actually but very accesable. think it will be good for cardriving, but IO was working with it and it went well ! It swings, it murmers it seeks and finds depth and concentration and it let's a nice beat out that gives a bit of joy and spirit to the heart. Han carries that unique energy, brings-in something like a spring-breeze tackels your senses in such an honest way, it is irresistable.Just good.Was at his concert last saturday-night. In the BIM-huis Amsterdam agian, ofcourse.Han selebrated his 70th birthday (this year April), with a series of concerts in togetherness with 'cats on keys'. In the Bim, last concert of the season, two Steinbach wings were standing, they were set on left and right on the sides of the stage and in the midle the nowadays very basic drumkit of Han.( He used to travell in the 60ties and seventies around with a van full load of things to make percussionistic or other sounds with..those days were fantastic too..!! Stage was an ARTshow-like space then.. Han opened ears. Still does.Please note well that Han Bennink is one of the inventors and shapers of the sounds we now hear in Avantgarde Jazz. He was a designer. Now, knowing his input, listen again to what he does on just that snaredrum at the latest CD..!! Fluid intuition is what you hear. The outcome of a lifetime in rithm.Well, that said, back to the stage of Last Saturday. Han brought six pianists.Six totally different players. From avants and impro, powerplay and young experiment to a fantastic classical player, a Swinger and Uri Kane.. He started with a totally unknown player listening to the name of Chino Shuichi, a guy from Japan, living in Berlin. Nowhere hardly anything to find of him, but he plays with an honesty and intuition, unrecorded, makes one wonder where they met.., but that guy plays so nice that it really allmost hurts in feel and outcome. Sensitive and matching very nice with Han's..wow!That start setted the night. With every pianist; Oskar Jan Hoogland, Ernst Glerum,(YES on piano!)), Gerard Bouwhuis, Veryan Weston he did a duo-session and all were different and very interesting. To me a most remarkable part was the interplay between Bennink and Gerard Bouwhuis. Bouwhuis went into a part of a piece of Messiaen.. Full of depth and beauty, from the first tone his loaded energy was there and made the space breathless... very uniquew in such a concert.. and Han went into that sound with his verty personal colouring, super-natural, touching birds and nature..immidiately the stream became a pulling puls and I felt tears coming... Music can not be described.. and it was only once a life to hear it..hope his concerts have been registrated and later something will come free to hear again, because this was something you want to hear again and again. It should be heard again by thousands and in 10 and 20 and 30 years again.Notable is therewith that the things Bennink has been recording, a long long line of recordings, is still standing like a rock and actuell !Well well, anyway, If ever you have the chance to go hearing some impro or this trio or any other thing with Bennink in it..(ICP ?!) Don't let the occasion pass.. He is 70, feels like the exellerating windmill on top of his latest CD and is still clearly cickin'!!