"Snakeheads & Ladybugs" is a brilliant album of improvised duets by two master musicians – drummer Jack Mouse and multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson; their first album for Tall Grass Records. At first listen, this might seem like an unexpected departure for these two gentlemen, but it is actually an idea that has been brewing between them since they first began playing together in the 1980s. Their fans and the entire jazz audience will undoubtedly feel that it was worth the wait. The musical concept of the horn and drums duo in the contemporary jazz environment can best be traced back to the euphoric duets between the magnificent John Coltrane and his alter ego Elvin Jones; and later cemented in jazz history with his landmark album with Rashied Ali, "Interstellar Space." Although the context has been in place since the earliest days of jazz, its modern incarnation has been most prevalently associated with the avant-garde or free jazz movem...