The co-leaders work well together, their respective styles each the ideal match for the other. Price is a supple player, whose unflinching line can recall Wes Montgomery, his ability to unfurl rewardingly coherent improvisations one of the pleasures of the age. VX has a similarly unquenchable desire to play and has chosen his own path, relating more to the likes of Hank Mobley and Dexter Gordon than to Coltrane and other more modish horn-men. The quartet offers a 10-track series of pieces here, the album badged as “our take on some of the famous saxophone/ guitar collaborations in jazz”. Thus, they open with ‘Uh Huh’, a Mobley/ Grant Green combination, as an out and out swinger, the repetitive riff underpinned perfectly by Di Lecce and Brown. The sonic combination is just right, Xenopoulos front and centre, Price's bubbling fluency replete with incident. Thereafter, they recall Coltrane with Burrell, Griffin with Montgomery and, rather pleasingly, Geoff Simkins with Dave Cliff, among others. The voicings throughout are tip-top; the tune choices please and the quartet blend is quite perfect. It's not all jump and run either; there are moments of quiet lyricism too, notably with ‘When Joanna Loved Me’, evoking Paul Desmond and Jim Hall. Lovely, mellow music. This album walks straight into my top albums of the year. Yes, it's that good.