Peter Lerner - ContinuationLong inspired to record with an early mentor, the great Chicago pianist Willie Pickens, guitarist Peter Lerner formed a quartet with Pickens, bassist Marlene Rosenberg, and drummer Charles Heath and spent two years developing their rapport and repertoire for this recording. Expanded to an octet for "Continuation," with saxophonist Geof Bradfield, trumpeter Victor Garcia, trombonist Andy Baker and Joe Rendon on percussion, the band creates wide ranging

an extensive musical offering which is a perfect supplement to the current Dragony collection

The same Jazz Age concerts that saw the premieres of Sowerby's Synconata and Symphony for Jazz Orchestra also launched Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue into America's consciousness

"Escape in the Fog" (1945) dir/Oscar (Budd) Boetticher cst/Otto Kruger

Jeanne Moreau remains an icon

Oscar Wilde skewered the social customs of the English upper crust with this famous play

Emperor Quartet - String Quartets

Laura Osnes

As a youth

sensitive cues underscoring emotional underpinnings of powerful film

Megadeth's 1985 Killing Is My Business

and English commentary by Academy Award-winning actress Simone Signoret

Second disc It's alive