The relaunched Livia Records continues to reactivate the great Irish guitarist Louis Stewart's back catalogue with two releases.
Due on 14th November, Alone Together features Stewart with flute virtuoso Brian Dunning in a set of ten duets from 1979. Alongside familiar tunes including There Will Never Be Another You, Chick Corea's Windows and Joe Henderson's Inner Urge tracks include Definitely Doctored, co-written by Stewart and Dunning and showing their wit and accomplishment.
The second release is the reactivated Tunes, from 2013, which features Stewart with his great friend, pianist Jim Doherty, who discovered a teenage Stewart in 1960 and set him on course to become Ireland's first world class jazz musician. They recorded Doherty's Spondance in 1986, which Livia reissued earlier this year, and by 2013 they were so comfortable in each other's company that Tunes might be considered a series of intimate conversations based on some of their favourite standards.