Braiding the personal and historic, the philosophic and scientific, Footprints by Richard Jackson takes us from conflicts in places like Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, Ethiopia and the American south to a kind of transcendent and redemptive vision. Guiding it all is a kind of jazz improvisation that follows the lead of musicians like Ben Webster and Wayne Shorter, and that gathers fragments into an inclusiveness and wholeness that Tomaz Salamun called "a vulnerable voice that blossoms and transforms us."