John Abercrombie & Don Thompson
January 23, 2010
Chalker's Pub, Billiards & Bistro
York University
North York, Ontario, Canada
Runtime: ~67:03

Broadcast: 'Canada Live' on CBC Radio Two
MPEG II, Layer 1 (256 kb/s, 48 kHz, stereo)
Recorded, edited and mastered at 48 kHz, downsampled to 44.1 kHz for CD audio

John Abercrombie is one of the world's foremost jazz guitarists. Multi-instumentalist Don Thompson (known mostly for bass, piano and bives) is one of the greatest musicians Canada has ever produced. Added together, their careers total almost a century, and they have played with most of the jazz greats of the last 50 years. John and Don have made music together for almost 30 years and their album, "A Beautiful Friendship", won a Juno Award (Canada's equivalent to the Grammy Award) in 1984.

CBC Radio 2 recorded them playing as a duo - on guitar and bass - in the intimate setting of Chalker's Pub at York University in North York on a bitterly cold January evening. Their music is sublime.

1 How Deep is the Ocean (Irving Berlin) 10:34
2 Sometime Ago (Sergio Mihanovich) 7:42
3 Everything I Love (Cole Porter) 8:37
4 Beautiful Love (Mitchell Young) 7:42
5 The Turnaround (Ornette Coleman) 8:15
6 Alice in Wonderland (Sammy Fain, Bob Hilliard) 8:25
7 I Fall in Love Too Easily (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) 9:42
8 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (George Bassman, Ned Washington) 6:15

John Abercrombie - el-guitar
Don Thompson - acoustic bass

CBC Production Credits:
Malcolm Gould - Producer
Doug Doctor - Recording Engineer
Steve Sweeney - Recording Engineer