David Friesen, Eddie Moore, Jim Pepper, Julian Priester

Remembering The Moment is a live quintet date led by bassist David Friesen, taped at The Hobbit in Portland, Oregon, on June 25, 1987, and issued by Soul Note in 1994. The band brings together pianist Mal Waldron, trombonist Julian Priester, tenor saxophonist Jim Pepper and drummer Eddie Moore. They play only three standards, and each one is stretched past twenty minutes. The notes dedicate the album to the remembrance of Moore and Pepper, two players the notes call great musicians of exceptional talent. Waldron was a regular on the label at the time: two months earlier, in April 1987, he had recorded the trio album Our Colline's A Treasure for Soul Note at Barigozzi Studio in Milan.

The concert was engineered by Bob Thompson and produced by Friesen. Six years later, on September 1, 1993, Friesen and Bob Schumaker made the digital transfer, edit and sequence at Super Duper in Portland, and Gennaro Carone mastered the result at PhonoComp in Tribiano, near Milan. The notes also record that Friesen plays an acoustic bass built by N. Guignot in Mirecourt, France, around 1795. The programme opens with Joseph Kosma's Autumn Leaves at a little over 22 minutes. Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli's Night In Tunisia follows at more than 23, and Miles Davis's All Blues closes the set at about 21 and a half. At these lengths there is room for long solos from trombone, tenor and piano, and the record keeps the shape of a club set heard whole.

This is the Soul Note CD 121278-2, first released in 1994, with the three performances from the 1987 Portland concert.