Maurizio Giammarco, David Liebman, Daniel Humair, Furio Di Castri

Live At The Big Mama puts two saxophonists side by side, Maurizio Giammarco and David Liebman, both on tenor and soprano, with bassist Furio Di Castri and drummer Daniel Humair. It was recorded on 26 and 27 January 2000 at the Big Mama, the club in Rome's Trastevere district, and Soul Note released it in 2001. In the note reproduced on the label's page, Giammarco describes the disc as a selection from more than four hours of tape.

Massimo Simonetti and Giovanni Onofri recorded the two nights, and the tapes were mixed in April 2000 at Villariccio Sound Recording in Rome by Gianrico La Rosa and Andrea Camilletti. The seven tracks last between five and a half and eleven minutes. The quartet opens with Wild Cats In The House and Madrugada, then plays Reflections On Roman Walls, To C Or Not To C, Old Man Blues and Thoughts Of Loss. It closes with Chickens, at almost eleven minutes the longest piece of the set. The selection runs to about fifty-three minutes. The line-up has no piano or guitar, so the two horns carry the harmony between them over Di Castri and Humair.

This is the original Soul Note CD 121374-2, released in 2001.