Co-produced by Akinmusire and his label mate and mentor Jason Moran, the albums 12 songs (10 of which were composed by Akinmusire) feature the 28-year-old trumpeters young quintet (tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown), a close-knit group of longtime friends and frequent collaborators that breathes a remarkable collective identity.