Packing eight tracks of funky jazz, this album follows The Crusaders’ Those Southern Knights from the previous year with highly confident compositions putting the seven-member band to work with pieces which easily slide from slow and chill to uptempo intensity.  Neatly knitting together the drums, bass, keyboards, horns, sax, and guitars, the music is predominately positive in its instrumental moods, though slight twists in their performance introduce shades of sad-hearted reflection.  The handful of guests in the back half of the album fit their contributions in without a hitch (though Roland Bautista’s guitar does stick out somewhat), but the finesse of the core group provides plenty of spectacle on its own.  Just excellently-played fusions of jazz and funk from start to finish, and a solid spot for those new to the band to start checking out their output.