"Here is music that will bring you into the present moment. No sentimental slop here, just raw up front syntactical jamming. Sometimes swinging with humor but done in the subjunctive case so it is not easily defined. It has a subversive sublimeness. It unmasks us. It is like the great santori moment, it is meant to awaken us, shake us up, jolt us. It does all this and more. It enlightens us but also the musicians who made it. It makes us feel alive...don't try to catch it because it will wither like the firefly that you captured in the jar when you were a child. It flashed to me "I am alive, I am alive, I am alive". It makes no excuses. It awakens me to the eternal now...I am undone. Some serious sounds and some foolish foppery both with a sense of abandon and astonishment.We are astounded, expectant, blown out of the water of the everyday world,we remember something what was it?....it slips away as it is supposed to. Unfortunately some won't get it. TOUGH. But they will get something, disgruntled but tantalized...wondering? These sounds had it's mentors: Albert, Archie, Perry, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Pete Larocca to name a few. And of course, Monk who taught us that the greatest sound is silence. This suite has a rich undergrowth of some who went before these musicians and takes us to this once undiscovered land of the free."
Arloha McVinnie