Guitarist Pat Metheny and pianist Brad Mehldau are two of modern music's most gifted improvisers and are part of that most elite group of jazz musicians who enjoy both the respect of their peers and the mass adulation of a wider audience. Often such temporary alliances are overblown, ego-ridden affairs, but Metheny and Mehldau have enough respect for the music and each other to reach past the obvious and the results are good enough to hope they may find time for more of the same.

Cormac Larkin