Bassist
Mario Pavone and guitarist
Michael Musillami played together for many years before embarking on this, their first full-length studio project. Their ensemble, which performs under the name
Motion Poetry, includes pianist
Peter Madsen and drummer
Michael Sarin. All four of these great players share a strong connection with alto saxophonist and composer
Thomas Chapin, who died of leukemia in 1998 at the age of 40.
Pavone and
Sarin, in fact, were two-thirds of
the Thomas Chapin Trio until the very end.