As I am a disciple of the great Jazz Bassist's/Composers Paul Chambers & Charles Mingus, you will never be bored! If you like to listen to, dance to, work to, drive to, romance to or just groove to music with a Cool Groove, there's something here for you. If I were to describe this voyage that transverses several decades into one word I would call it Exuberance. From the Same Leon entrances "In the name of the King (King Curtis)" to the Gary Primm infusion of that Pentecostal Feeling', and the James Allen Smith's "Jubilee" Sweetnin', you will find some of the world's greatest musicians and singers demonstrating their brilliance as we tell our stories within the "Born In The Blues" music that makes up these Cool Groove recordings. As I write these notes it brings to mind that many of them have joined The Ancestors but their music is here today, and forever, in our hearts & souls. This collection of songs and instrumentals wa...