A key moment in the career of pianist
Michel Petrucciani – and a set that features an amazing collaboration with guitarist
Jim Hall, and a fair bit of great tenor and soprano sax from
Wayne Shorter too!
Hall's guitar is heard on every track on the set – ringing out in those wonderfully spare, openly flowing notes he first started crafting in the 50s – a surprisingly wonderful counterpart to the piano of
Petrucciani, which seems to take on an even more sensitive and evocative feel for the date.
Shorter comes in on a few of the album's tracks – arcing great lines over the colors of the pair, in a way that's a bit like some of the Jimmy Giuffre experiments with
Hall in the 50s – but more tuned towards
Shorter's own sense of tone and timing. Titles include "Careful", "Bimini", "Morning Blues", "Limbo", and "Waltz New".