While this album is filled with the great jazz you'd expect from a member of the Marsalis family, it also contains something a little different than most jazz albums you'll find. Sprinkled throughout the album are short poems written and read by Wynton Marsalis. Each poem (about relationships between men and women) serves as a sort of prelude or introduction to the song that follows.

The jazz ranges from the Dixieland-flavored "School Boy" to "The Sun and the Moon" which has the clean trumpet sound that Miles Davis made famous. It also features some piano similar to Vince Guaraldi. "The Sun and the Moon" is just a cool song, daddy-o. Dig it. And then there is "Fear." This is a little more akin to the sort of experimental music Miles Davis did in the latter part of his career. What makes this song really interesting is the ending, which seems like it should be part of a burlesque show.