TISQ selects mostly jazz and jazz-oriented songs and standards to demonstrate its grooveworthiness, Bernstein's "Cool," Brubeck's "Blue Rondo a la Turk," and Ponty's "Bowing-Bowing." Their interpretations swing in TISQ's oddly syncopated, slightly dissonant fashion.
Interpretations of standards such Chick Corea's "No Mystery" or "Bernie's Tune/What Is There to Say" are intriguing, and there is a deceptive density in the layers of contrapuntal lines TISQ builds into its arrangements.