Alto great Bobby Watson puts together a team of musicians Hermon Mehari/tp, Richard Johnson/p, Eric Kennedy/dr and Curtis Lundy/b along with cameo appearances by Horace Washington/fl and Karita Carter for 15 musical themes. The problem is not the music, but the poetry and spoken messages by Glenn North and Pamela Baskin-Watson. The tunes such as “Progress” and “Sweet Dreams” are vintage bop, and Washington’s flute on the driving “A Blues of Hope” is a beaut. Unfortunately, the prose themes of racial politics and victimization sound dated, trite and obsolete. A clever reading of Martin Luther King’s view of jazz is enjoyable, and Ellington’s “Come Sunday” is elegant, but why is this band fighting yesterday’s problems? Try reading Richburg’s Out of America to get a proper perspective of America’s present so-called racism. The present problem isn’t skin, it’s sin.