Makaya McCraven's early 2015 offering, In The Moment, was pared from nearly 48 hours of live, improvised performance recorded at a single venue over 12 months and 28 shows. Working with instrumental contributions from an array of Chicago jazz players (including Jeff Parker, Joshua Abrams, Marquis Hill and Matt Ulery), Makaya culled, cut, rendered and remixed the mass of sounds into 19 potent pieces of organic beat music for the original 80-minute, 2LP issue.