It takes courage and a creative soul to see the world and hear
the music. Sound can be a friend and foe to the fearful but
beautiful collaborations only inspire us all to love and be
better humans. The music you will experience on this album is
exactly that, an experience. One that visits the familiar as
well as new and exciting ways to make that familiarity shape and
mold into sounds that soothe from different perspectives.
The combination of instruments and sounds are taken from the
roots of classical, contemporary, African and Eastern
philosophies that mix and blend beauty and sweetness, producing
compositions with heart behind the music.

Anna Fisher beams with the spirit of the positive, loving her
music, her musicians, and possesses a real earth connection to
culture that is exuded here musically in many forms. The music
is presented to you with open arms - taking you in only to be
loved by the tenderness.

English horn and oboe are not strange to jazz and certainly are
welcome to the complements of vibes, strings, brass triads,
percussion and rhythm rooted in a bed of melody. With a
contemporary feel, Anna and her host of extraordinary players
travel the musical continents making the spirit of “one
love” the reason for reaching out to heal the world with
music!

This is Anna’s first album recording with a jazz band and
many of the arrangements are collaborative efforts by her and
trombonist Rembert James. They take these works of already
magnificent composers such as Yusef Lateef, Dave Grusin ,
Michael Franks and Stevie Wonder and extend the vision for
alternative feelings. Anna also arranged many pieces on the
album. Her musicians read like a who’s who of a few of Los
Angeles’s finest and together their efforts make the
feeling of peace, spirit, and loving tenderness musically
universal.

LeRoy Downs
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