"Believe me, there is nothing more real than to go on stage with a gambler," Carter raved about the refreshed liaison with his Gallic buddy. The two rediscovered the once lost central thread in March 2016 at Jazz Week in Burghausen as a short intermezzo during a joint appearance with the WDR Big Band. The provisional climax was then the recording made in Theaterstu"bchen in Kassel on October 29.