“The Lion” was one of the founders of the stride piano idiom along with Fats Waller and James P. Johnson,, and Don Ewell was the greatest pianist of the New Orleans jazz revival. That makes the album promising, but it’s unfortunate that this album of never-released duets from l966 cannot be recommended. Two-pianist records must be well-recorded and well-rehearsed to come off well. This meeting must’ve been fun in person, but it sounds messy 40 years later. Nevertheless, Delmark is an archival label worth supporting. Check out instead George Lewis and Don Ewell or Barney Bigard and Art Hodes.