The album title is perfect: this Ghana-born, Denver-based bassist, drummer, singer and composer makes music that simmers and bubbles with three main ingredients: highlife, funk, and jazz. I couldn’t decide whether to place this one in the Jazz section or the World/Ethnic section, but I settled on jazz because the horn charts just sound like big band to me. Some tracks feel like smooth jazz too (check out the Christ Botti-flavored “Forced Landing”), but all of it is pretty much sui generis. Paa Kow’s music is paradoxically dense but light, heavy but nimble. And funky funky funky.