That song was about as perfect an introduction to the rest of the album as there could be. I rewound to listen to the rest, and he's all over the place. The piano is central, but other tracks are driving piano augmented by some light horns ("Franklin Avenue" for example), almost metal sounding distorted piano on "Sabbath" (not my favorite, but interesting), and the very light and familiar sounding opening track "When It Rains".

On the more experimental side of the album is the fast and chaotic "Free Willy". A speedy free-form drum beat plays while Brad on piano and Larry Grenadier on bass trade fast riffs. "Alvarado" is a bit free-form as well, featuring almost tribal sounding percussion and a rolling piano melody, sometimes dissonant piano melody. Like the opening track, Alvarado plays around a melody that I'm sure I've heard before, but just can't place. Both are originals, though.

I've never really listened to much of The Beatles, so I don't really recognize the two Beatles interpretations "Dear Prudence" and "Mother Nature's Son", but they work well with the rest of the album.

I've made impulse buys of albums because they were or included re-interpretations of music I otherwise liked, and I've almost always been disappointed. (The techno version of Dark Side of the Moon by Out of Phase springs immediately to mind. Ugh.) I am not in the least disappointed with this purchase.