These duets - which include some fractured, free-form playing but are mostly charming, melodic miniatures - show a remarkable amount of common ground between these two jazz guitarists, despite their very different histories.
So here are acts of precision pointillism (The Birds AndThe Bees), Metheny's beautiful Ballad Z which sounds like slow-moving liquid, the gentle guitar torture of Improvisation No 2, a version of Summertime over rapid-fire folk strumming (try not thinking "Darkness at the break of noon ... " when it kicks off), and the oddly shaped Into The Dream, which is underpinned by shimmering phrases which sound like an Indian santoor.
And there's much more on this diverse, never demanding, 17-track meeting of two masters of jazz, and elsewhere, guitar.
