"Las Isla De Reyes" is an ambitious multiple-section piece of Afro-Cuban jazz, which features Taborn's extensive montunos with a backdrop of heavy percussion.

"Oboo Ketua Nyom" is where the African and American jazz forms come together most successfully. A double — sometimes triple — timed rhythm that syncs with a catchy theme played out by Rogers' sax. African xylophones (gyils) provided by Stone and clarinet player Derek Bermel add both percussion and coloring to the melody.

"Mobius Trip" on the other hand, is decidedly more on the challenging bop side of things with a unbalanced time signature and some exceptional piano work by Taborn that pulls in both McCoy Tyner's muscle and Herbie Hancock's classical lyricism.

"Don't Drop That Coffin!" is one of the few spots where Rogers allows himself to showcase his sax chops, here within a challenging setup of a galloping beat and only Cleaver and Hayden supporting him as a pianoless trio. Clocking in at just under five minutes, it's by far the shortest track of this batch but Rogers and his two cohorts make their solo statements count in the short time alloted.

It's not clear why a group of recordings this creative and consistently good would sit unreleased for ten years, but open-minded listeners of jazz should welcome The World Is Not Your Home seeing the light of day. With Rogers' recent return of his focus on jazz, one has to wonder how many more ideas he's picked up all this time that he will apply for his next album. I, for one, am eager to find out.

photographer - Clay Patrick McBride