It's easy to see why pianist Jeff Pittson and his wife, vocalist Suzanne Pittson, got along so well musically in the 1990s -- both are post-boppers with a taste for the intellectual and the abstract. Intellect is hardly something that the pianist shies away from on his first album as a leader Go Where It's Dangerous; in fact, he thrives on it. Forming a duo with drummer Wally Schnalle, Pittson avoids overdone standards and emphasizes his own compositions, which range from the raga-influenced Bombay to Calcutta in Six Minutes to impressionistic pieces like Dangerous Variations, Selim Sivad, and Sweet Morpheus. The reflective Suzanne was written for Pittson's wife, who isn't on the album but would have fit right in. Pittson and Schnalle both use electronics to their creative advantage, yet, Go Where It's Dangerous is, for the most part, an album of straight-ahead jazz (as opposed to fusion, jazz-rock, or crossover). Pittson incorporates funk rhythms when he acknowledges Herbie Hancock's contributions on Dr. Hancock, I Presume!, but most of the time, what the duo gives us is essentially post-bop with electric references -- not the sort of jazz/rock/funk experimentation one would expect from Weather Report, Scott Henderson, or Al DiMeola. Although little known, Go Where It's Dangerous is worth searching for. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi

1		Brujo
2		Selim Sivad
3		Dr. Hancock, I Presume!
4		Bombay to Calcutta in Six Minutes
5		Suzanne
6		Tony
7		The Godfather
8		The Sky Turned Green
9		Dangerous Variations
10		Sweet Morpheus

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