When Juergen Friedrich was in New York in 1998 to receive the Gil Evans prize, he met John Hébert and Tony Moreno at a session and between the three of them they hit it off so well musically that they decided immediately to record a CD together. Since then Juergen Friedrich, who lives in Cologne and has since become a professor of piano in Hamburg, and the two Americans who are much in demand in the New York scene among many different musical partners (from Uri Caine to Ravi Coltrane) meet each other at least once a year to go on tour and make recordings.