Umberto Petrin, Jean-Luc Cappozzo

Law Years is a duo record by pianist Umberto Petrin and trumpeter Jean-Luc Cappozzo, released by Soul Note in 2007. It runs about 52 minutes across eight tracks. Pieces with the duo's own titles, among them Prayer, Edgard Poe's Room, Impro and Darco Joe, stand next to two standards, Stella By Starlight and 'Round About Midnight, and the title piece is heard twice, opening the disc and closing it in a second take.

Petrin plays piano and Cappozzo alternates trumpet and flugelhorn. 'Round About Midnight is the longest track at more than eleven minutes, while Edgard Poe's Room lasts under two. Jim Santella, writing in All About Jazz in April 2008, described a programme of duets that "dances in and around free jazz", with playful readings of familiar tunes and originals. He heard Cappozzo bending pitch on purpose, adding growls and kisses on the horn, while Petrin moved between the keyboard and prepared-piano work inside the instrument. For Santella the widest contrast lies between the thematic statements of 'Round About Midnight and the stranger exchanges of Impro, and he closed by calling the two "powerful thinkers who knit jazz' tradition together with its future". He reviewed it next to a straight-ahead trumpet and piano album by Irvin Mayfield and Ellis Marsalis, presenting the two records as opposite roads for the same pairing.

Soul Note CD 121388-2, first released in 2007.