Magna Carta is releasing the Alex Skolnick Trio’s LAST DAY IN PARADISE late March 27. Alex says the title “has a three fold meaning. Last year we played a festival called the Sarasota Earth Dance. We met a lot of artistic and socially conscience people. As we were driving away, we felt we were leaving paradise.”

Alex explains, “Last Day In Paradise is also a philosophy–a way at looking at the world and living each day. The theme also applies to the ecology in dealing with environmental concerns.”

All the songs on LAST DAY IN PARADISE are jazz, most are classic jazz. And most of the songs on LAST DAY IN PARADISE are original, the covers are: Ozzy Osborne’s “Revelation Mother Earth,” Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” in which the trio combines some techno sounds with their beat, and Testament’s “Practice What You Preach.”