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* Maestro Ari Roland has been touring the globe for the last two years for the US State Department, preaching the message of bebop and democracy. In doing so, he has absorbed elements of folk music traditions around the world, and incorporates them into the seven stunning new original compositions featured here. "Three of the four members of this quartet--bassist Ari Roland, tenor saxophonist Chris Byars, and pianist Sacha Perry--are among the most accomplished, genuinely innovative, and consistently exciting young players in jazz on their respective instruments. Their music is easily misunderstood as bop. It is actually the great language of bop subtly yet profoundly transformed, reconfigured, revitalized and made relevant to our most uncertain present moment." -- JazzTimes