Bassist Jim Dedrick leads a team of pianist Tom Reyes and drummer Chuck Ferrell through a collection of his creative originals. His strings have a deep and thickly palpable feel, leading into the snappy sticks on the trudging “Demon” and strolling into the dark mood of “Tension”, while stately around Ferrell’s cymbals on “Lugubrious”. Reyes has a pretty Bill Evansy feel as he floats over the brushes on “Kelly” and Monkishly struts around the leader’s clever groove on “Spontaneous Blues” before the team has fun on the Tin Pan Alley-ish “Bullfrog Burp”. Ideas abound with new colors not only on each song, but throughout each melody. Mirthful musings.