Track listing

1. "Wiring" (Lake) - 6:28
2. "Soft Landing" (Lake) - 1:11
3. "Rio" (Lake) - 7:30
4. "The Peace Before" (Blackman) - 1:23
5. "Blues for a Warrior Spirit" (Bluiett) - 13:08
6. "The Desegregation of Our Children" (Murray) - 12:35
7. "When the Monarchs Come to Town" (Murray) - 2:51
8. "Endless Flight" (Burrage) - 7:35
9. "Ballad After Us" (Purcell) - 4:36
10. "Australopithecus" (Underwood) - 9:29

Personnel

• Hamiet Bluiett
  Hamiet Bluiett
  Hamiet Bluiett is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument...
  
   — baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
  
  , contra-alto clarinet
  Contra-alto clarinet
  The contra-alto clarinet is a large, low-sounding musical instrument of the clarinet family. The modern contra-alto clarinet is pitched in the key of EE and is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the EE contrabass clarinet...
  
  
• John Purcell
  John Purcell
  John Purcell VC was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
   — saxello, alto flute, English horn, alto and C flutes
• Oliver Lake
  Oliver Lake
  Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly on alto saxophone but also performs on soprano saxophone and flute....
  
   — alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  , vocals
• David Murray
  David Murray (jazz musician)
  David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
  
   — tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
  , bass clarinet
  Bass clarinet
  The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
  
  
• Donald Blackman — keyboards
• Calvin Jones
  Calvin Jones (musician)
  Calvin James Jones, Sr. was an American trombonist, bassist, pianist, bandleader, composer and educator. Born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Jones moved to Washington, D.C. in the 1970s where he remained until his death from a heart attack in October 2004...
  
   — bass
• Ronnie Burrage
  Ronnie Burrage
  Ronnie Burrage is an American jazz drummer. His style draws elements from hard bop, bebop, funk, and soul....
  
  — drums