Guido Manusardi, Red Mitchell

Together Again is a piano and bass duo record by the Italian pianist Guido Manusardi and the American bassist Red Mitchell, released by Soul Note in 1991. The title refers to a partnership that went back to the 1970s. Mitchell, who lived and worked in Sweden from 1968 until 1992, had met Manusardi on record with Red Mitchell Meets Guido Manusardi, taped live at the Guldhatten club in Stockholm in April 1974. The two followed it with Symbiosis in 1980 and My Foolish Things in 1985.

Giovanni Bonandrini produced for Soul Note, Giancarlo Barigozzi engineered and Gennaro Carone mastered, and the liner notes are by Mike Hennessey. Manusardi had lived in Romania from 1967 to 1974, and CAM Jazz notes that his later Soul Note album Doina is built on Romanian melodies. This record stays closer to the American songbook. The eight pieces run just over 54 minutes and mix standards with titles that are not from the songbook. Danny Tune opens the record at almost eleven minutes, the longest track by a distance, and the short Velvet Sunset and Bios follow. The standards are But Not for Me, stretched past nine minutes, Out of Nowhere, Lover Man and My Shining Hour, which closes the set. Dialogando, Italian for conversing, sits in the middle of the programme. Mitchell died in November 1992, the year after the release.

This is the Soul Note CD 121181-2, made in Italy by PhonoComp, the album's first edition from 1991.