From the Earshot Jazz Festival web site, "Seattle’s hippest and most elegant jazz mainstay celebrates a new CD. For two decades pianist, composer and educator Marc Seales has been a leading jazz figure in the Northwest and has toured and performed with many jazz greats, including Don Lanphere, Joe Henderson, Art Pepper and Bobby Hutcherson. Critics have praised Seales variously for his “meaty piano solos,” and “blues-inflected, Hancock-inspired modernism.” Inducted to the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in 2009, Seales is today promoting jazz awareness among young talents at the UW, where he’s a professor. "