The album features performances by saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Edward Wilkerson, saxophonist Mwata Bowden, trumpeter Robert Griffin, Jr., trombonist Isaiah S. Jackson, Jr., tubist Aaron Dodd, cellist Naomi Millender, bassist Richard Jess Brown, Jr., and drummer Dushun Mosley.

[1][2][3] Wilkerson founded Sessoms Records in 1986 in order to release an album by his big band, Shadow Vignettes.

He recalled: "I had a car trunk filled with records and all of these dudes would laugh at me, but I didn't care.

Evocative textures float elegantly through shifting meters, easily slipping into another funky world.

"[7] In an article for The Washington Post, Mike Joyce noted that the group "features a vibrant and occasionally incendiary reed and brass section," and commented: "Several tracks veer from traditional big bang harmonies into braying cacophony and explosive solos, spurred on relentlessly by drummer Dushum Mosley and bassist Robert Jess Brown Jr."[2] All compositions by Edward Wilkerson.