"'Invention', according to the 'New Harvard Dictionary of Music', is defined as "an original product of the imagination". Jazz is described as "an expanding collection of 20th century styles" where "improvisation is essential". My new CD Inventions embraces exactly these concepts.

My music has always drawn from different genres and composing is my passion. But in the realm of these twelve tunes it was a joy to also write for a variety of instruments and performers. This group of incredibly gifted performers covers a wide range - not only musically and stylistically but also in terms of age, race and gender."

Greg Porée, October 2008.

To be even more precise “in terms of age, race and gender”: This scenic and cool jazz album features exactly twenty-one highly acclaimed musicians – three women, one British-German and two African-American; one Jamaican, one Cuban, one Hispanic, two Italian-American, one Arab-American, six American and six African American – ranging from Ebony to Ivory and covering every age g