Andrew McCormack has a double release this summer, his jazz piano trio CD reviewed above and a new Third Stream CD featuring his feted duo with long-term collaborator and late 1990s Tomorrow's Warriors' fellow alumnus, saxophonist Jason Yarde. Forming in 2008 this is the duo's third CD following MY Duo and Places And Other Spaces released on Edition Records in 2011. For Juntos they are joined by Elysian Quartet, the high profile strings group well known for entering into such cross-genre collaborations. They followed a performance at LSO St Luke's in November 2012 with two days in the studio and this is the result. Melding the languages of contemporary classical composition, jazz improvisation and global rhythms, Juntos showcases a versatile set of originals written by the pair separately. They recall, at times, Brad Mehldau's writing for strings with Joshua Redman; the progressively harmonic chamber works of Darius Milhaud or the taut minimalist rhythmic insistence of such composers as Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. Yarde and McCormack's near telepathic contrapuntal dialogue has been developing since the duo formed following an impromptu gig at the Vortex in Dalston in 2008. Jazz musician's liaisons with string quartets can sound disjointed, others can sound too saccharine, but McCormack and Yarde have created enough cohesive intensity on Juntos not to fall into any of these traps.