Modern sorta-mainstream jazz: a cool slick sound masking complicated jazz with some angular soloing ideas. Intelligent and grooving.

In some ways, Osby is a paragon of modern jazz. An Osby sax solo will dart like a hummingbird but leave a steely, hard-edged path in its wake. Along the way you realize he did a lot of crazy things without sounding too "out." Like Steve Coleman, he's working to expand the jazz vocabulary while working within the jazz tradition.

Greg Osby -- alto, soprano sax
Sara Serpa -- vocals
Adam Birnbaum -- piano
Nir Felder -- guitar
Joseph Lepore -- bass
Hamir Atwal -- drums

1- Perky, darting theme over careful piano. Cool guitar solo.
2- Cooldown mode, but still a flinty groove. Randomly, wordless vocals near the end.
3- Slow. Floating and mysterious backdrop for a nicely energetic and bright sax solo on soprano sax.
4- Smoothly jabbing and grooving theme. Nicely flowing piano solo. Lushly angular guitar solo.
5- Airy mid/fast theme with wordless vocal.
6- Velvety, wandering midtempo theme. Takes its time, then blossoms apart for slow-burning free soloing
7- Lush song (w/lyrics). Slowish, mellow, poppy. Listen to how the sax follows the vowel sounds in the vocals; it's an uncanny effect.
8- Lightly midtempo. Mostly soft an relaxed, but Osby's piping solo adds some adventurous color.