Forbes/Young Duet

Mike Forbes and I have been playing together in a duet and various groups since we met in Denton, Texas in 2005. Chronology was one of the first recording projects we tried with specific compositional ideas adding at least some degree of predetermined structure to the improvisations. The first four tracks are supposed to be a tribute of sorts to some pairs of saxophonists and bassists who tended to collaborate together regularly. These were recorded at the Marietta house in Denton, Texas on a Yamaha 4-track cassette recorder. And for all our Chicago friends who haven't really heard what we were playing around this time, prepare to be JAZZ'D!!!

Chronology (2006, self-released/never released?)

Mike Forbes - sax
Andrew Scott Young - bass

1. Part 1 - for Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden (5:52)

2. Part 2 - for Albert Ayler & Henry Grimes (4:12)

3. Part 3 - for Evan Parker & Barry Guy (5:40)

4. Part 4 - For Peter Brötzmann & Evan Parker (4:39)

5. Part 5 (6:24)
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And though I can't say all these jams are awesome, if anyone was interested in getting a better understanding of how we have evolved as improvisers since moving to Chicago, here are all the duet recordings I have of us from 2007-08. Most of them were recorded on the zoom h4 in our living room. Some of them are alternate takes from the sax/bass duet in Six Hands, Five Voices recorded at Depaul. Since most of these are improv jams we did, none of them have names. I labeled them by date and broke the mp3's up into three .zip files because I have an upload limit. So deal with it.

Mike Forbes - sax, vocals
Andrew Scott Young - bass, lap steel, mic/percussion

FYD 07/08 1

1. 9/12/07 (18:59)

2. 9/21/07 (1) (24:19)

3. 9/21/07 (2) (14:21)

4. 9/25/07 (1) (16:13)

5. 9/25/07 (2) (3:06)

FYD 07/08 2

1. 10/1/07 (15:23)

2. 11/16/07 (1) (10:39)

3. 11/16/07 (2) (9:33)

4.-8. lap steel/sax duets 11/19/07

9. 2/2/08 (4:57)

10. 3/20/08 (7:48)

11. 3/29/08 (9:51)

12.-13. microphone/percussion/sax 11/16/07

FYD 07/08 3

1. 4/5/08 (1) (22:20)

2. 4/5/08 (2) (18:12)

3. 4/15/08 (1) (1:37)

4. 4/15/08 (2) (1:36)

5. 4/15/08 (3) (1:36)

6. 4/30/08 (8:25)

7. 5/2/08 (9:01)

8. 6/5/08 (7:21)

9. "A Drunken Reading of Drunken Writing" by Mike Forbes, vox/bass (2:01)