It was recorded before an audience at Master Control Studio in Burbank, California during February 2001, and was released in 2002 by the German label ACT Music.

On the album, Carrington is joined by saxophonists Gary Thomas and Katisse Buckingham, trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Wallace Roney, keyboardists Herbie Hancock and Greg Kurstin, guitarists Paul Bollenback, Kevin Eubanks, Jeff Richman, and Danny Robinson, bassists Bob Hurst and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and percussionists Ed Barguiarena and Darryl "Munyungo" Jackson.

"[1] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings noted that "the playing is of a very high calibre," and stated that Hancock "proves that he remains an immense creative force when he's set a decent challenge.

Fully aware of her abilities, she's more concerned with moving the music ahead and expanding her audience and focus than in reasserting her credentials via a string of frenetic solos.

"[10] Writing for All About Jazz, David Adler called the album a "forceful and well-paced record,"[11] while AAJ's C. Michael Bailey described it as "a hip, high profile offering," commenting: "Ms. Carrington, for her part, is a great rhythm master, equal parts intellectual Max Roach and physical Art Blakey, all filtered through the 1990s.