Once again pianist/composer David Chesky courts a dark muse on this second outing by his Jazz in the New Harmonic quintet. The nourish atmosphere prevails from his first dissonant stabs at the keyboard on the opener, "Check Point Charlie", to the final moody strains of the closer, "Sleepless in New York". Featuring drums Billy Drummond, Javon Jackson on tenor sax and clarinet, Jeremy Pelt on trumpet and Peter Washington on bass. Close your eyes and you can fell a fundamental groove-and-riff formula that is not unlike what Eddie Harris or Herbie Hancock was putting down.