« Written during his run of playing hotels in Toronto during the 70’s, this piece features Bob’s favourite soloing chord, the Lydian mode or major scale with #4.  The result is a passionate piece that builds in momentum as it moves up from dominant chord to Lydian and has a climatic experience that adds excitement when it finally arrives at repeated syncopated figure that evokes the emotion of completion.

This piece is very difficult to solo over as it doesn’t do the standard jazz mentality of ii V I, the Lydian chord is spacious without the semitone interval between the 3rd and 4th note which results is an openness which can feel unnerving; this is the point of this exercise.  With this composition, the composer invites the soloist to really explore, the intense dominant chord and the free falling Lydian mode.  This requires the soloist to surrender to the flow, go along with the building momentum of the piece and express the ecstasy of arrival at the syncopated figure. »

-Jessica Erlendson van Remmen