On Tuesday and Wednesday, 5 and 6 May, the two concerts at the Bird's Eye in Basel by the Wolfgang Muthspiel Chamber Trio (with guitarist Muthspiel, pianist Colin Vallon, and trumpeter Mario Rom) may have shared a number of the same compositions, but they were strikingly different—and not just because the first show was just the duo of Muthspiel and Vallon. Both performances contained long, intense, and spacy improvised passages, but on Wednesday, with Rom joining them, both Muthspiel and Vallon played faster and longer lines than they did on Tuesday. In onepassage, Muthspiel on electric guitar even reminded me of Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew in King Crimson. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 7 May 2026)