John Penny’s Urban Tumble album is the first of what looks to be a four album collection aiming to deliver missing links to the world of global Jazz Fusion. It is a collection of works created in times when Penny was involved with other professions in parallel with performing and composing Jazz. One of the other professions was scoring music for films. As inspirations for Jazz songs surfaced, he documented them in forms ranging from demos to finished mixes, he then shelved them. The Urban Tumble collection of songs and those to follow were selected and grouped by their Jazz feel, by the best from each period, and the most timeless. They are the musical diaries of John Penny that map an evolutionary path to his works of today. The Urban Tumble project features performances by great musicians that joined John Penny across this extended production timeline from 1991-1999, with one song reaching back to 1981. The skills of the musicians shine through on every cut where they appear. Penny laid out his song guidelines on a variety of musical canvases, and the musicians in turn graced them with exotic live murals. The result is a group of musical journeys that are as grooving as they are romantic, that get funky, and are spiked with pleasant surprises. By the time Penny produced these songs, he had become aware that the best results for producing Jazz was found in giving talented musicians the freedom to use their instincts. Urban Tumble is the last project of legacy songs that used a fair amount of electronic instrumentation. Penny moved to bringing in live musicians from the start of production with the next generation of shelved songs. A pair of the songs had remixing techniques applied as well. The piece called Béla merges two points in history when its 1981 Spanish guitar duet crossfades over to its 2015 re-rendering with a classical guitar duet. The piece reaches maturity as its closing theme is augmented by a string and woodwind ensemble. The title song Urban Tumble in its initial version was a five minute small ensemble piece without guitar tracks. The 2015 rebirth of this song opens with an urban soundscape made of elements from the streets of New York City and Minneapolis, MN. Sound clips from the song spill from passing cars. An energized Jazz Fusion groove emerges from the traffic. Its theme is handed off to a symphony orchestra that builds it and hands it back. With sound design and remixing aside, the musical conversations of the Urban Tumble collection breathe in and out with organic resolve and the evocative presence of Penny’s electric and acoustic guitars are never lost in the mix.