This album features Mike Davis on double bass, Jacob Duncan on Alto Sax and Jason Tiemann on drums. All songs were spontaneously composed by the trio. There were 2 compositional concepts employed. The first Mike calls Fortunes, and the second he calls Hat-tricks.

‘Fortunes’ is a spontaneous compositional concept based on immediate and undiscussed interpretations of evocative song titles. Mike first explored this idea in his band Conundrum around 1999/2000. This band was comprised of Mike on bass, Jacob Duncan on alto sax, for a short while the tenor saxophonist Dave Monsch, and a rotating drum chair including Chris Michael, Bill Campbell and Dan Vonnegut. For an extended time the ensemble played weekly, first at Oasis in NYC’s East Village and later at Nimrod in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. Each night Mike would bring a new list of evocative song titles, and Conundrum would spontaneously compose each song as the title was announced. Among the more memorable titles were Stickers Are a School Girl’s Her