Hailing from a family of professional musicians, the young singer songwriter Joanna Wallfisch recently relocated from London to New York having studied for a Masters in Jazz Performance at London's Guildhall in 2012. She is paired here with another classical music-rooted musician, the 33-year-old Parisian-born pianist Dan Tepfer who has already impressed in London in both duo with the legendary Lee Konitz, and at last year's London Jazz Festival with his variations on Bach's ‘Goldberg Variations’. It's Tepfer's role as a foil for the melody-driven alto sax of Konitz with his classically-orientated counterpoint and unexpected chordal punctuations that makes him a canny choice as partner for Wallfisch with her poised, pure-toned vocal. Tepfer provides an infectious running commentary to Wallfisch's musings on yearning love affairs, and her wispy yet substantial, clean-cut vocal style points to an allegiance to folky jazz singer-songwriters such as Norma Winstone rather than the inflected sassiness of American jazz vocals. Aside from Wallfisch's originals, the Radiohead outsider anthem ‘Creep’ has Tepfer adding tension on the piano with some guileful polyrhythmic shifts as Wallfisch solemnly chants (as opposed to Thom Yorke wails) the words in this personal ode to inadequacy. A version of Tim Buckley's hauntingly lovely ‘Song For A Siren’ is also well judged. Wallfisch's vocal might be characterised by emotional understatement and restraint, but the performances and the duo's intimate rapport are pretty mesmerising.