PAUL DUNMALL, tenor and soprano sax
KEITH TIPPETT, piano
PAUL ROGERS, bass
TONY LEVIN, drums
1. First set 38:40
2. Second set (inc) 46:43
Four Bars Inn, Cardiff. 11th July 1988
OK, so the band wasn’t actually called Mujician at this point. But it soon would be. Keith Tippett and Paul Dunmall had played a few gigs with Tony Levin and Chris Bolton at Tony’s Jazz Club Friday at the Bartons Arms in Birmingham. Paul Rogers had played in Tenor Tonic with Dunmall and Levin and the Keith Tippett Sextet but had recently been away in America. On his return Dunmall arranged some duet gigs and one of them in Cardiff added Tippett and Levin, advertised as the Paul Dunmall/Keith Tippett Quartet. So this is really Mujician's very first gig and it’s fresh and exciting and utterly magical in its musical coming together. Luckily Bruce was in Cardiff that night with his tape recorder – so it’s BIG THANKS to him for the opportunity to enjoy an hour or so of history in the making.