IC B. Reviewed on 6/4/2024...
Bob Sneider has developed one of the most refreshingly original jazz guitar styles today. On this, his second release, he displays a woody, acoustic tone reminiscent of Jim Hall, Martin Taylor, and John Pizzarelli. He possesses tremendous technical facility and a truly inventive vocabulary -- odd intervallic combinations, timbres, and turns of phrase crop up everywhere, all in the service of an impeccable lyricism. Sneider employs a number of ensemble formats throughout the album: standard guitar trio, jazz quintet, string quartet, and, most unusually, guitar/percussion duo. And for even more sonic variety, he's heard on both electric and nylon-string acoustic guitar.
--from the liner notes