Mat Maneri and Pandelis Karayorgis lead a quintet featuring an impressive line-up of some of the most creative musicians working in New York today, Tony Malaby on tenor sax, Michael Formanek on bass and Randy Peterson on drums. In the liner notes Kevin Whitehead writes: " 'Disambiguation' succeeds on that rarefied level where compositions, orchestration, improvising strategies and individual talents all work toward a unified effect. - This is what jazz should be like at the dawn of its second century: deft and complex without making a big fuss over either quality."