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Jim Hall and Ron Carter comprised one of Jazz's two greatest guitar and bass duos, the other one having been Joe Pass and Niels Henning Orsted Petersen. Lamentably, very few recordings of Jim and Ron's work together exist. Telepathy is actually a collection of two difficult to find live albums: Live at Village West and Telephone, and it's offered at a price far less than what you'll likely pay for either of the individual issues. If you love Alone Together, you'll certainly want these two albums in your collection.

In their way, Pass and NHOP were the Bird and Diz of Jazz strings. Catch their virtuosity in Chops, Northsea Nights, The Joe Pass Trio and Oscar Peterson's The Trio. Hall and Carter, as a duo, are more in the cool jazz tradition. (Hall was a celebrated collaborator of Bill Evans, Paul Desmond and other stars of the cool school). Their live work on the Telepathy collection takes them into slightly more experimental territory than the material on Alone Together explores, but the Telepathy performances feature Jim and Ron's trademark telepathic connection and their uncanny ability to find original melody, harmony and rhythm in standards you might have thought had been explored to death.

If you're getting hooked on jazz guitar and bass collaborations (or you already are and want to hear more), I also recommend the Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden collaboration Beyond the Missouri Sky as well as the Pat Metheny Trio albums Bright Size Life (with Jaco), Rejoicing (with Haden), Question and Answer (with Dave Holland), Day Trip (with Christian McBride).

If you want more jazz guitar and bass duo, check out Jim Hall and Basses with Holland, Haden, McBride and others.