Guitarist Louis Stewart and pianist Jim Doherty have been making music together in various settings since the 1960s, but it's taken the two old friends until now to make a duo album. Stewart stands alone as the greatest jazz musician this island has ever produced – indeed, as one of the finest, most fluent guitarists in the be-bop style there has ever been. His many admirers will be delighted to find the Waterford man in rare form here, peeling off melodies with his customary nonchalance. Doherty, who has backed many illustrious visitors to these shores over the years, clearly revels in the encounter and rises to the guitarist's challenge on such American songbook classics as It Could Happen to You, This Can't Be Love and Button Up Your Overcoat .
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