All too often, when top-tier guitarists from different worlds—Mike Stern is a jazz guy, Eric Johnson works primarily in rock and blues—come together, what results is a formless mess given over to one-upmanship. Smartly, Stern and Johnson chose to skip the cutting contests and just have a blast. Eclectic isn’t about technical showboating, though, to be sure, these two guys can play rings around each other and most anyone else. Instead, accompanied by bassist Chris Maresh and ubiquitous drummer Anton Fig—with guests including Stern’s guitarist wife Leni—the pair romps through roadhouse swing (“Benny Man’s Blues”), ‘70s fusion (“Dry Ice,” from Johnson’s Electromagnets days), sweet Wes Montgomery-style club jazz, uptempo blues and, the capper, a muscular reading of Hendrix’s “Red House.” (‘70s and ‘80s hitmaker Christopher Cross appears elsewhere, too.) Eclectic? Definitely. But also seriously electric.