Pianist Irene Schweizer continues her string of superior duets with drummers in this spirited meeting with Joey Baron. Their chemistry is immediate and deep. They can’t seem to resist chiming in when one of them plays something that pleases the other – and they delight each other constantly for nearly an hour. They are so eager to connect and they put so much life and commitment into every piano note and drum sound that the music fairly jumps with joy. Each of the album’s seven improvisations is distinctive, but all possess a giddy, barriers-down sense of freedom that allows them to go in any direction. “Free for All” moves in and out of atonal disquietude, out-of-tempo pensiveness, and rollicking gospel jazz. “Up the Ladder” begins with disjointed drum patterns and piano lines that zip and dart in different directions and ends up with a boogie-woogie. Schweizer plays inside the piano on “String Fever,” with twinkling lines that lurch this way and that like a tipsy harpsichord; Baron enshrouds everything in cymbal washes and pokes and prods with snare and tom-tom and bass drum. “Blues for Crelier” rolls along over a South African groove, while “The Open Window” is a tap-dancing waltz. Their vocabulary is utterly modern, but there’s something eternal about their grace and swing.