Tenor saxist Raffi Garabedian brings together a team of Danielle Wertz/voc, Jonathan Beshay/fl-ts, Ben Goldberg/cl, Danny Lubin-Laden/tb, Dierk Peters/vib, Rashaan Carter/b and Sean Mullins/dr for a collection of personal and folksy tunes. Garabedian’s tenor swings warm and easy on gentle pieces like “The Armenian Question” and the graceful “Ten Acres”. Wertz is surrounded by soft horns on the tender “Escape to Erzurum” and tells a story on the elliptical “Three Gold Lyras” and the military tempo’d “”First Trip To Fresno”, with the album a rich tale of a tribute to a mother with a message of hope and survival.