Michiel Borstlap is a world-renowned jazz pianist who has also worked with many great jazz musicians over the years, most notably with Jimmy Haslip, Toots Thielmans, and Pat Metheny.

These recordings are taken from a personal archive of the dates the Bruford-Borstlap duo have played since their first meeting at the Nijmegen Festival in Holland, in 2002. The nature of the music is conversational. In a small room, where most of the tracks were recorded, this may have the intimacy of a dinner table conversation between old friends ( 'Round Midnight, Every Step ). But in a big hall, things may quite naturally become a lot more muscular and assertive ( 16 Kingdoms, Swansong ). They are quite capable of sounding like a band with three times as many people in it, yet at no time do they lose authorship, identity, or immediacy.

The title of this album sets the scene for the pure pleasure found in these recordings, which ably display the passion both Bruford and Borstlap have for free expression and spontaneous performance. Released for the first time on CD these performances will appeal not only to fans of both Bill Bruford and Michiel Borstlap but also to all lovers of cutting edge, spontaneous music of any genre.