This album marks the recording debut of Turner and Iverson in a duo. Years after their first meeting at NYC jam sessions, and following much individual success (Turner as a leader and in-demand sideman, and Iverson in hit trio The Bad Plus) they re-connected as part of the exhilarating and widely-lauded Billy Hart Quartet. On Temporary Kings, they explore aesthetic common ground that embodies the heightened intimacy of modernist chamber music in a program of predominantly original compositions.