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by Roger Farbey
On the first two discs of this previously unreleased three CD set, recorded at a single concert on 20th November 1969, the music is regularly punctuated by Gary Burton's announcement tracks, which are not always easily intelligible. However, his announcement preceding Steve Swallow's joyously rousing Portsmouth Configurations" (actually Portsmouth Figurations," from the 1967 RCA studio album Duster) is clear enough to discern that it features drummer Bill Goodwin, but Burton doesn't mention, as implied on the inner sleeve annotations, the ...
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