When jazz walks to the edge, shakes hands with the buddha, turns and does a doe-c-doe with the spirit of the Sun then, you are tasted the soul of the Tina Richerson Band. Wrong notes never sound so good! Swing, straight time, no time some of the time, modal grooves, baion, keep your eye on that piano player! Richerson's music is honest, fierce, explorative, solid, heart broken, chest pounding, story telling, engaging and always enlightening.

As a composer and arranger she bridges the strai...