This is a sequel to yesterday’s post, which addressed the very same tree and the same tune.
This post’s photo was taken a very few minutes after yesterday’s, in essentially the same conditions; “today’s” bark also sits on the lower trunk, and is less than a metre distant from “yesterday’s”.
The particular quartet responsible for “today’s” performance is a splendid foursome who never existed as a regular unit, nor ever made a studio album, as such.
(photo copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 12.59 pm on 12 April 2020 in Barker Road, Subiaco, WA)
I do not know the tree species; for a street tree, it is unusually large, tall and grand.
It is a stringybarked Eucalypt of some kind, and there are just a few large, mature examples of it, in just a few of Perth’s inner suburban streets.
I suspect that its home range would be in some warm, well-watered parts of eastern Australia.
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For some years American guitarists John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner were an occasional duo who toured, and made two albums together.
Towner and Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek were also occasional collaborators; two of Towner’s best 1970s albums featured a quartet which included Garbarek
In 1980 Abercrombie, Garbarek and Brazilian percussionist/vocalist Naná Vasconcelos (1944-2016) recorded Eventyr, their one album as a trio.
To my knowledge, the aforementioned joined forces as a quartet just once, on an April 1978 night in Hamburg, Germany.
On Timeless Towner played 12 string acoustic guitar, Abercrombie electric guitar, Garbarek soprano sax, and Vasconcelos played just-occasionally, discreetly, but beautifully: