George Haslam & Mario Rua - Maresia

Duo recording between George Haslam (clarinet and tarogato) and Portuguese drummer Mario Rua. George explains how the recording came about: It was like that scene from The Benny Goodman Story where Goodman calls at a caf� and the proprietor happens to be Lionel Hampton - a bit far fetched but here I was in the Taberna do Vilarinho , Lisbon. I had no idea the chef was a brilliant drummer - Mario Rua. Manager Diogo Teixeira Lopes and mutual friend Miguel Martins introduced us and arranged the recording session before a live audience in the taberna. Maresia is a Portuguese sea breeze; the track titles are names of coastal locations in Portugal and (Fleetwood) in England.