Jim and Tom's Raga Rage

Jim Langabeer and Tom Ludvigson - Improvised Raga
Recorded live at Odeon Lounge, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, Monday 7th March, 2005

Jim Langabeer: tenor and soprano saxophones
Tom Ludvigson: piano

This is an extract of a spontaneous performance based around what Jim Langabeer described as a "Sunset going through to a couple of hours before midnight raga". The interjection by a bus outside the café right before the end is a nice touch !

Tom and Jim are typical of most musicians in Auckland in that they've played just about every kind of music at one time or another....The "Obi-Wan Kenobi of the sax" Jim Langabeer is one of New Zealand's most remarkable woodwind players, (saxophones, flutes and shakuhachi), with interests that stretches from free improve to jazz and world musics. Tom Ludvigson was pianist in lounge jazz group Bluespeak with Greg Johnson, and does everything from electronica through to TV scores and unclassifiable spacy stuff.