Two Tenor Case was founded in 2000 when pianist Cees Slinger was asked to perform in a restaurant in Kijkduin. His own quintet Buddies In Soul was not available, after which tenor saxophonist Simon Rigter suggested bringing in his colleague Sjoerd Dijkhuizen and thus creating a band with two tenors. Drummer Eric Ineke and bass player Frans van Geest completed the five. Especially for the live
… recordings that were made in the jazz club Pannonica in The Hague, Slinger invited his old friend, the then seventy-year-old trombonist Slide Hampton. Despite his advanced age, Hampton is still a striking soloist with a full sound. Especially on JJ Johnson's ballad Lament, Hampton shines and his sensitive trombone playing comes out best. The real fireworks are kept until the encore, the more than ten minutes long The Eternal Triangle by Sonny Stitt. (AD)more
