Lovano and Osby made some excellent personnel and program choices. The teaming of Osby-affiliated pianist Jason Moran and Lovano’s current trio mates-bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Idris Muhammad-produces a constantly shifting chemistry of contrast and confluence. Brown and Muhammad are always in sync with Moran’s ability to quickly and effortlessly move between the pocket and the perimeter of a composition’s structure, and Moran proves to have a sixth sense about when and how to pull back just a little to allow Brown’s well-honed sense of line and the propulsiveness of Muhammad’s smallest details to come to the foreground.
In Lion’s day, this trio would have been subsequently booked into Van Gelder’s ASAP, with or without a front line. The formula of the co-leaders each contributing a few tunes and rounding out the program with some chestnuts is rarely as well executed as it is here…
"Track after track, Lovano and Osby confirm their marquee status. Consistently, their flinty exchanges provoke them to go beyond their… read more"Bill Shoemaker, Jazz Times
"The teaming of Joe Lovano and Greg Osby, two of the most exciting saxophonists of the ’90s, is kind of… read more"Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide