Delmark
Childhood friends, the two Chicagoan principals on this date followed similar paths through jazz. Touff was arguably the better known of the two, primarily because of the relative exoticism of his chosen axe and Pacific Jazz date he waxed as a leader (reissued back in ’01 by Blue Note as part of their short-lived West [...]
Delmark
Photoshopped as a face-off, the merger of visages on the cover of this new Delmark disc hints at a potential caveat to the project. The danger inherent with tandem piano settings comes in the tendency on the part of the principals to devolve into combative duels. In other words, a few drops of donnybrook tend [...]