This album has its moments but the for most part is overrated. The highlights of the CD are remixed samples taken from Monk's legendary session w/ Coltrane (Trinkle, Trinkle) and some snippets stolen from a Sun Ra CD (A relaxing place on Venus). For sure there are some brilliant highlights on this album. The cover of Tony Williams' There comes a time is top notch. However, much of the album just seems to drag. I think Gianluca has a lot of potential to be the next big avante garde trombonist, but there just isn't enough here yet to make it interesting. If you really love the avante garde, and especially if you are a Grachan Moncur fan and are looking for someone who might be his next generation predecessor, this is a must have. For everyone else, it's not worth picking up. This CD is not bad. It's just that it had such high reviews everywhere (here on Amazon, all music, and downbeat magazine) that I was expecting much more.