3rd April 2006
Cam Jazz CAMJ 7780-2
01 July Shower 05:24
02 Blues To Steve Lacy 05:56
03 34 Bars Blues 05:12
04 For Suzannah 03:27
05 Fast Ballad 03:45
06 Elk's Club 05:08
07 Have You Met Miss Jones 04:28
08 Body And Soul 05:20
09 Here's That Rainy Day 03:20
10 All The Things You Are 06:35
Described elsewhere as a complex dialogue between the two artists. The first six tracks are Solal and then Douglas tunes respectively. It's interesting to hear material that DD tends to perform through his Jazz Standard quintet to deliver, in this stripped down duo setting.
A particular favourite here is the trio of "For Suzannah" (the descending motif and the familiar horn parts taken in a revolving reading of rich chords and then individual notes by Solal as a solo piece), the brisk "Fast Ballad" (a rich cornucopia of urgent trumpet and restless piano), and the quirky "Elk's Club" where Douglas deploys the mute in a sensuous blues intercut with cartoon soundtrack bridges which fly off in all directions.
The remaining four numbers are jazz standards including, of course, Rigby's ballad to the lost love of his life. The inevitable comparisons emerge with something as known as "Body and Soul" however there is significant reconstruction and re-interpretation to give this version enough legs of it's own to stand on.
Simply put two masters of their instruments locked in an interweaving conversation.
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