This is a gorgeous set - another delicate exploration of brass tonality, restrained improv eloquence and quiet empathy from the New York-based Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen and his long-time piano partner Yonathan Avishai - the latter also an inspired foil for Cohen's lyricism and flawless control on the trumpeter's recent ECM triumphs, Into The Silence, and Cross My Palm With Silver. As this duo session's title implies, the warm acoustic of the studio in Lugano in which it was recorded is an active participant too. The players contribute an original each, the other seven tracks visit jazz sources from Coltrane and Ellington to Ornette, Stevie Wonder's ‘Sir Duke’, and Israeli composer Alexander Argov's pretty lullaby ‘Shir Eres’ - so this is a set rooted in orthodox song-forms, but the imaginativeness of the playing transforms them all. Avishai Cohen's ballad ‘The Opening’ has a Bill-Evans-meets-Abdullah-Ibrahim piano intro and a wistful, tone-shifting melody, and Coltrane's ‘Crescent’ is a trumpet soliloquy of soft ascents, octave-hopping strides and airy top notes. Duke Ellington's Azalea’ is a standard-song stroll sprung off Yonathan Avishai's inventive comping, Abdullah Ibrahim's ‘Kofifi Blue’ gets some Armstrong- like end-note shakes, while ‘Sir Duke’ has its famous melody burnished with an almost baroque courtliness. This is a quietly intimate dialogue of course, but almost everything in it glows.