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This unreleased recording from the year 1983 will not be considered in a historical context, because the here acclaimed musical art and the art of encounter stand for its own and for eternity, above any historical developments. Heinz Sauer, by the way currently as active as in the here presented production thirty two years ago, proves that he's one of the greatest sound magicians of tenor saxophone, who isn't simply keeping the once found tone as a frugal achievement. Indeed the tone is in the middle of the event, as a kind of calling card, mostly audible, but always breaking up in colours of overblowing, jagged depth or in euphony of singing hight. His vibrato plays a creative role full of variants instead of a simple mechanical. In addition here, in the most exciting, smallest alliance of Jazz, the duo: the dutch virtuoso of keyboards Jasper Van't Hof, who with his erratically versatility, his fanciful humor and fancy talking, never loses the plot or his concentration. Nothing can stand between Jasper and his intellectual superior steered technique. That he's one of the most likeable living jazz musicians, with a warming mood for interpersonal relationships, should be attached as a personal remark. The program opens with a rhythmically unbound, recitative attunement, leading to Van't Hof's theme "Merel". We have to look for an indication for this kind of "free but not Freejazz" that happened here, in the song "A Classical Preacher" until the end of the concert with the motivic suggestions on highest level, the joy of playing and the brilliant cross interlocking relationship, the way freedom and relationship dance around each other, the way Van't Hof's sparkling virtuosity and Sauer's sound cosmos found common ground and fell apart.

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