Giovanni Maier / Alexander Hawkins – Two for Keith

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Italian, Trieste-based prolific double bass player-composer-educator Giovanni Maier recorded in 2012 a live, free improvised duo album with British legendary pianist Keith Tippett at the Teatro Miela in Trieste, Two for Joyce (Long Song, 2013). At the theater stood a statue of Irish writer and poet James Joyce, and Tippett and Maier decided to dedicate the album to Joyce, in commemoration of his sojourn in the city in the early days of the 20th century, where he had written his early works and significant episodes of Ulysses.

Maier planned to record a second duo album with Tippett, and the Long Song label head Fabrizio Perissinotto had already booked a studio for the spring of 2020.