This has to be the most expressive and beautiful performance of Bach's Art of Fugue I've ever heard. But the caveat is both its advantage and disadvantage. The caveat is that these aren't note for note performances of AoF but involve jazz-inspired improvisatory interludes. The interludes are beautiful. I can't complain. The improvisations retain Bach's tonality and tone and (improvisatory interludes aside) the fugues *are* largely intact. If you don't like Jazz at all, then you won't like these performances. But, if you're game, get these.The disadvantage is that I wish they'd also produce a note for note performance of these fugues (and all the fugues rather than a selection). Somehow the combination of guitar, saxaphones, and double base succeeds where no other combination of instruments (or single instrument) has (for me). I must own at least 18 or 20 different performances of AoF on CD and none of them really draw me into the music (and I have been a Bach listener since I was two years old). They're either all strings, all saxophone, all brass, all guitar, one piano, one organ... you get the idea. The individual voices tend to get lost in the homogeneous sound produced by a single instrument or a group of instruments all belonging to the same familyThis is the first recording I've heard where each voice feels discrete.