Our roots were similar. I was playing acoustic Country Blues and he was usually with a Blues or RandB band. “Watcha Mike” was his greeting and that was worth a lot to me at the time. I felt we were ‘mates’. Eventually in the early 1980s, together with drummer/percussionist Roger Turner, we formed the improvising trio The Recedents. It was time and that time lasted for 20 plus years. To me he was the shaman; the shape shifter; the joker – the one who “…exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behaviour.” – he would of course have denied this and would accuse me of talking ‘a load of bollocks’ – which he often did and which was and still is often true”. Cooper betont den persönlichen und überpersönlichen Charakter dieser Hoomage: “This compilation is my way of paying homage to him and to offer an opportunity to his fellow soprano saxophone players to join me in it. He touched all of these musicians lives and I thank them for their participation”. Das Tribute erscheint digital, der Erlös geht an Coxhills Frau Uli.