A piano-bass duo session cut in a single day at Tokyo's Onkio Haus on 24 October 1977, during one of the bassist George Mraz's rare passages through Japan. The format leaves nowhere to hide and the two players treat that exposure as the point of the exercise: Masaru Imada's voicings opened up to admit Mraz's lines as full equal voices, the Czech-American bassist drawing on the resonant, singing tone he had developed through his work with Tommy Flanagan and Stan Getz.

The programme alternates two standards — the title track and Victor Young's Stella by Starlight — with four Imada originals (Blue Road, Blue Rain, Remember of Love, Poppy), the originals providing the duo with the harmonic openness their interplay requires. The recording is one of the canonical TBM audiophile dates — Fujii's selection of Alone Together for his career-spanning The Famous Sound of Three Blind Mice compilation suggests how much the producer himself valued this particular session.