This album was recorded in Golden, Colorado in 1996. I am just now getting it on CDBaby and I have had the interesting experience of revisiting the music we made here. It is with great humility that I realize the magnitude of the musicians I have on this CD. Art Lande is a pianist's pianist. He makes the music sing, he knows exactly how to make it right. I can say that the first time I heard Art's music, on his Shift in the Wind album with Gary Peacock I knew that I had found the musical path that was to become a lifetime journey. I was lucky to spend a year with Art and his family in Switzerland, and to hear him play many concerts in all kinds of venues. Art contributed his expertise and two beautiful tunes to this CD and I am very grateful to him for helping me to make this album. Also from Boulder, contributing their musical talents to this project were Dwight Kilian on bass, Jill Frederickson on drums and Khabu, guitar, all members of Art's Russian Dragon band. The other musician on the CD is my longtime friend and colleague, guitarist Tony Gaboury. Tony and I have played many gigs together over the span of thirty years. We have also made two other albums together, Time Remembered, on vinyl and Alone Together, which I will get onto CDBaby soon. Tony is a superb musician and I am very fortunate to have met him at the University of Maine at Augusta jazz program where we were both students sometime in the last century. Tony has an impressive discography and is an active jazz musician in the Portland, Maine area. Steve Grover is a prolific and profound composer and drummer. His music speaks volumes in terms of harmonic sophistication; there is great depth to his writing and I am so pleased that he allowed me to use three selections from his award winning Blackbird Suite, based on the poetry of Wallace Stevens. I also recorded a beautiful tune 0f Steve's called the Seventh String, which features Tony and Khabu and me playing alto flute. I hope you will listen to the music on The River Is Moving and hear something unique and beautiful. Many thanks to all the wonderful musicians who helped to make my compositions come alive.