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While making readers aware that the Ab Baars trio – whose line-up has Wilbert de Joode’s double bass and Martin van Duynhoven’s drums appearing alongside the leader’s tenor sax, clarinet, and shakuhachi – started in 1990, Slate Blue’s liner notes implicitly invite the listener to measure the progress made by this trio, also its unvarying distance from the “landscape”. -Beppe Colli