Clovis is a collaboration by an eclectic group of musicians from the Pacific Northwest. Defying categorization, the album features all original compositions which range in style from Hagberg's sultry ballad, Blues for Julia, through Coker's Brazilian-tinged Close Enough to Kiss, the Northwest fusion of Cooper's Copland, and a tango by Bergeron, to Moore's classic toe-tapper, Pepe Linque. All of it is anchored and propelled by Lear's powerful and sensitive drumming.