Shanghai-based jazz vocalist and erhu player perform arrangements by American jazz pianist on Chinese folk songs and originals.

Based in Shanghai, China, this group of musicians, led by American jazz pianist, Steve Sweeting, explores folk melodies from many different regions of China. Sweeting, who has lived in China for over five years, arranged or composed all the work on this CD. His ideas bring an energetic urban spirit and a deep sense of jazz harmony and rhythm to a set of disparate and often haunting Chinese tunes.