These are a glory to behold. The released songs (12 released discs total including a recent lost transcriptions release) were recorded as promotional material, complete with a transcripted story for radio stations. They were recorded after tours and were a break from their more formally constructed set list. This is jazz pure and straightforward.
Anecdote alert (as my son says, whilst fleeing the room whenever one seems likely - cheeky bugger!).
2011 - Green Man festival pre-main festival camping, around a large campfire.
I got chatting to a nice few folks (20 ish, curse their youth 
).
One of them had been carting round a bloody great double bass, which piqued my interest at a damp festival.
They had been hoping to play on the small pre-main-festival stage that was set up.
After some laughs and a few jams (I had my guitar with me) they mentioned they did have an E.P or two out (on Bandcamp, of course) and I could download when I got home.
So I did, and stone me some of the tracks were genuinely wonderful 
I don’t think they are active any more, having graduated (and in some cases married) etc.
i still listen to them occasionally, and here they are. Very nice (harmony) vocals, dbl bass, mandolin, acoustic guitar, drums etc.
They are / were called “The hunting Bears” (as in bears out hunting).
I heartily recommend you give them a listen
It seems there are two bands with that name - it is this one:
More classical this morning. This time Jeremy Denk “c.1300-c.2000”. A solo piano journey from Machaut through Binchois.
New on Qobuz. HR. I had a couple of 12-string guitars for years; not to extract any delicate tones from them but because they made a lot of noise when folk singing in pubs. Ah, youth! This is an unusual 12-string with a tone closer to a lute/theorbo. It sounds very well indeed and I thoroughly enjoyed the album until the final tracks when he abandoned the likes of Dowland and Bach to play his own compositions. I found these to be lacking in depth and complexity.
Hi @chrisj1948 thank you for the recommendation- did you happen to listen to the separate Gnossienne track as well? Curious to your thoughts - I agree with the lack of depth on the last two tracks on the album.
Yes, I did. That was the track derived from Eric Satie with a very slightly oriental sound to it, wasn’t it? Very nice, but not Dowland!
The intro he added is odd.
Agree to both of you - thanks again for passing this along.
