Saxophonist Patrick Lamb and percussionist Patsy Meyer, who spent most of last year on separate tours playing back-up for Jazz & R&B greats like Bobby Caldwell and Norman Brown, step together into their own limelight today as one of few duo acts in smooth jazz with the Lamb & Meyer release “Don’t Get No Better” –a title that aptly describes both this remarkable collaboration and featured single, “Hands of Passion.”

Produced by nine-time Emmy-award winner John Henry Kreitler, this smooth-jazz masterpiece sizzles with the unique blend of Patrick Lamb’s smoking saxophone and Patsy Meyer’s sultry percussion grooves, but it’s also distinguished by exceptional writing and an extraordinary supporting cast. “Hands of Passion,” for example, was co-written and includes keyboards by smooth jazz great Gregg Karukas, and features a haunting flugal horn solo from the legendary Steve Madaio, who performed at Woodstock with the Butterfield Blues Band a...