Pianist Justin Kauflin creates a series of empathetic duets with bassist Thomas Fonnesbaek on this mix of originals and intriguing standards. Fonnesbaek’s bass is tensile on his own title track as Kauflin flows like Chopin, and his bass jabs and chops on his fun “Catwalk.” Kauflin is nocturnal along the gentle bass line of “ Lost” while he works around Fonnesbaek’s pokes and picks on “Semiosis.” A take of The Beatles’ “For No One” has a gentle piano parlor feel combined with rich bass strings strummed, while Cole Porter’s “It’s All Right With Me” makes for intertwining bop interaction between the four hands. Conversant and swinging with simpatico.