This is arguably the best straightahead – but totally modern – CD of the year for this reviewer. Dease now has seven albums under his own name and is equally respected in big band and combo circles. He was written six originals for this date. Each has its own character and personality and his always-logical solos have much warmth and passion. He pays tribute to fellow trombonist Steve Davis by opening with a blues Davis wrote for the Roy Hargrove Big Band and which really does deserve to be a standard (‘Grove's Groove’). This is followed by five Dease tunes including a dedication to the family of Trayvon Martin, the black Florida teenager who was so senselessly killed, a happy bubbly blues for the leader's wife, the title song depicting the changes in lifestyle the leader had had to make and then the turbulent, challenging ‘Right Place, Wrong Time’ – all highlighting Dease's beautiful round sound and interesting compositional/arranging ideas. A reworking of the classic ‘Everything Must Change’ has lovely trombone with some nice cup mute. Thad Jones' ‘Three and One’ has a terrific Whitaker bass solo and swings along nicely. Same goes for ‘You're My Everything’, before the ‘rhythm changes’ of ‘The Big D’ closes a really enjoyable record, sensitively produced by Marc Free and engineered by Nick O'Toole at Brooklyn's Acoustic Studio. Special mention for the intensity of Tim Green's alto (he was originally a Wallace Roney ‘find’), drummer Owens (currently with Christian McBride's Trio) and the brilliant pianist, Glenn Zaleski, who has his own excellent Sunnyside CD called My Ideal, recorded at the same studio and featuring Dezron Douglas on bass. Try and buy both records.