Julian Priester and Sam Rivers bring to the table, when considered in duet, very close to 90 years of experience at the epicenters of the various stylistic musicquakes that have "rocked the house(s)" of American music since the end of World War II. The music's of Billie Holiday, T-Bone Walker, Sun Ra, Miles, Dizzy, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, Cecil Taylor, and countless others have shaped and been shaped by these two Titans.

My desire to record Sam and Julian in duet emerged from listening to them duet, de facto, as they rehearsed melodies and routines while they were front-line players on Reggie Workman's Postcards CDs, Summit Conference and Cerebral Caverns. Over those four days, their blend coalesced in my ear almost as if it were a photo emerging-from shadow into light, the icing on the so-sweet cake of a heavy band, the intoxicating cherry-on-top at the start of the end of music, of the world as we do and do not know it today.

Ladies and gentlemen, real music lovers, I am honored to join Julian and Sam as we invite you to eavesdrop on these, their recorded conversations, postcards from an inspired meeting and music mating that may very well invade your waking as well as your sleeping dreamscape, as they have mine. In reality, what you will hear are soundtracks from movies you are about to write, produce, cast, direct, and perhaps star in yourselves.

- RS

Thanks to Gary Whitmore, Phyllis Williams, and Jack Foss of Boosey & Hawkes; to Reggie Workman, for introducing me to Postcards; and to Wayne Horvitz for introducing me to Tucker Martine. Special thanks to Nashira for putting up with it all.

- Julian Priester

I would like to thank Wayne Horvitz.

- Tucker Martine