A very under the radar release - I am so glad that I found it, somehow - issued on venerable Canadian label Justin Time. A case of brotherly love in the rapport saxophonist Chet Doxas shares with his brother Jim on drums amplified by the firm support from pianist Marc Copland and from bassist Adrian Vedady. Copland is at his best on the delicious cover of Johnny Mandel 1960s classic 'A Time for Love' while Jim's part on 'Our Man Sam' has a great skip and stripped down bounce factor to it. An album stocked mainly with originals recorded in Québec last year there's a lot of subtlety and soft unravellings here on an album that belongs as much to the spirit of the 1950s even when it often nudges modernistically forward. A pleasure from beginning to end. SG
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