10 July 2009
Guardian

There are passages in this beautifully recorded album when Haden's bass and Forcione's guitar sound like one enormous acoustic instrument, so closely do their ideas echo one another. The first thing you notice is the delicacy of touch, in a piece like the impressionistic 'Snow', where notes and sparse chords hang suspended in stillness. Only then does the strength and virtuosity of their playing make its impact. Haden is a jazz hero from way back, but Forcione is still not as well known as he deserves to be. His distinctive combination of jazz with Spanish and other European influences is always full of surprises.