The Stockholm shows and recording in September are now confirmed. A little bittersweet, since I’ll already be across the ocean, a shame there aren’t other countries lined up to wander into and pretend I’m Keith Jarrett recording for Manfred Eicher. I wrote to Manfred more than once. Silence. To be fair, he’s probably received a truckload of mail from musicians thinking they deserve to be on ECM. Stockholm Karl, on the other hand, agreed to indulge me making a record while I’m there. We’ve been writing back and forth over twenty years. Not as long as my one-sided correspondence with Manfred, but Karl replies. Karl wins.