This is the third pairing of these two reedmen to appear on Barnes’ own label. Having lately heard them in action together, in both a larger band setting and in a quintet, as here, it is clear that they think as one when it comes to swing. Birds of a feather, you could say. This new release (why wait five years?) marks another stage in Woodville's continuing documentation of these stellar collaborations and hugely welcome it is. ‘Tippin’ by Horace Silver illustrates the album's virtues pretty well; the opening head is strong before Barnes takes his baritone for a stroll, preceding a chorus by Green and Peplowski's airy clarinet solo, with Brown adding accents ahead of the serpentine theme and out. It's two clarinets on ‘Strollin’ also by HS, Green's beat like an anchor, each reedman swooping in and out of the harmonies as Pearce turns in yet another of his tidy, swingy solos. I especially liked Junior Mance's very bright ‘Jubilation’, tenor and alto alongside, with its stompy Pearce piano, Green and Brown sizzling, Peplowski's skittery tenor the standout. Two bossas on, via some pretty playing on ‘Some Other Spring’, it was Al Cohn's bouncy ‘Jazz Line Blues’ that did it for me. Quick-witted and nicely varied, this is fully-grown music, harvested here for keeps. It's all too easy to take this kind of disarming expertise for granted, so don't.