Inaba & Nakamure Duo

*2026 stock* One of the more intimate entries in the Three Blind Mice catalogue: a duo session, with all the exposure and concentrated focus the format implies. Conversation lives up to its title. Two players in close, careful dialogue, with neither voice dominating and neither retreating into accompaniment. The duo format strips a lot of the usual jazz furniture away: there's no rhythm section to lean on, no horn section to fill out the harmony, no place for either player to hide.

What's left is a particular kind of attention, and the record rewards listeners willing to give it the same. The writing favours space and line over harmonic density, and the recording (TBM in its prime) captures every detail of the interplay. A sleeper in the catalogue, and a record that has aged particularly well into a moment when smaller, more focused jazz formats are again being given their due. Reissued in the Three Blind Mice Supreme Collection 1500.