" data-original-title="" title="">Roxy Coss was inspired to name the second album as leader of her own group Restless Idealism after reading a passage by Hunter S. Thompson in The Rum Diary, in which he weighs the tension between "a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other." While Coss, as a working musician, has wrestled with both sides of that equation, she weighs anchor essentially on the shore of idealism, a point of view that is reflected in her ten enticing compositions and the generally sunny nature of her tenor and soprano saxophones.

Coss lays her optimistic cards squarely on the table on the bracing, straight-down-the- middle opener, "Don't Cross the Coss" (a play on her name, which is often confused as "Cross"), proving beyond any doubt that when it comes to improvising, she lacks neither technique nor ingenuity. Coss fronts a quintet on that number, as she does on every other save "Push" and "The Story of Fiona," on which the eminent trumpeter