After her "spellbinding" (NPR) debut record, voted #1 Record of the Year by Free Jazz Collective, trumpeter Stephanie Richards follows up with a release of her second project: Take The Neon Lights on Birdwatcher records. Using NYC as a backdrop, her compositions are named from poems by icons Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou and Allen Ginsberg, to name a few. This music explores a spontaneous prose of grit and brilliance, celebrating the ugly beauty of NYC.