Robert Wyatt’s appearance at the Berlin Jazz Festival on November 7, 1971, to accompany the four violinists of the New Violin Summit marked the beginning of a new musical adventure, just a few weeks after he left Soft Machine.

The double album *New Violin Summit* captures the essence of this extraordinary evening, where the four soloists (Jean-Luc Ponty, Don “Sugar Cane” Harris, Nipso Brantner, Michal Urbaniak)—all backed by the same electrifying rhythm section (Robert Wyatt, Terje Rypdal, Wolfgang Dauner, Neville Whitehead) shattered the boundaries of jazz, rock, and blues with compositions drawn from their respective repertoires.

Another album, “Sugar Cane’s Got The Blues,” features several tracks performed that evening by Don’Sugar Cane Harris, including “Where’s My Sunshine,” filmed by a professional crew and recently unearthed by the archivist-musical alchemist Alan Bershaw (Bershaw Archival Management) recently unearthed to replace the mediocre mono sound of the video recording with the exceptional sound of the album released the following year on MPS.

This sonic sleight of hand transports us directly to the front rows of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall on November 7, 1971, with the indescribable feeling of experiencing a concert that will go down in history.