Deviant Obsession (2002)

In the courtroom, Joan Alton (Brick Randall) and Mike Hathaway (John St. James) are legal adversaries, but outside the halls of justice they are entangled in a torrid love affair. When Mike's wife finds evidence of her husband's extramarital activities, she confronts him with the proof, and he storms out. Unable to reach Joan, Mike stops at a local strip club where he finds comfort in a few stiff drinks and the come-on of a blonde who doesn't want to know his name. When Hathaway wakes up alone at a local motel, the blonde is gone. Soon after, he discovers that his wife has been brutally murdered, and he's the number one suspect. Suddenly, all of the people able to verify his alibi are not talking or they're turning up dead. As the police build a case against Mike, digging up all the dark secrets they can find, Mike turns to the one person he can trust and the one person who might be able to clear his name—his mistress.

Stephane Grappelli & Stuff Smith - Stuff And Steff (1965) {Gitanes Jazz Productions 4400165102 rel 2002}
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© 1965, 2002 EmArcy / Gitanes / Universal Music | Jazz In Paris Series | 4400165102
Jazz / Mainstream Jazz / Continental Jazz / Violin

Violinists Stéphane Grappelli and Stuff Smith performed together on a few occasions, but this 1965 studio session, first issued by Barclay, was one of the more difficult dates to acquire until Universal Music reissued it on CD in 2002, as a part of their extensive Jazz in Paris series. With a solid rhythm section (pianist René Urtreger, bassist Michel Gaudry, and drummer Michel Delaporte) that pretty much sticks to a supporting role, it is clear that Smith's gritty tone rubs off on Grappelli as the session progresses.

Hong Kong-based singer and actress Miriam Yeung quickly became one of Cantopop's biggest superstars after rising to fame on television.

If you'd like to access the full scope of Alkan's quirky style in bite-sized proportions rather than piling into the Concerto for Solo Piano, Les Quartre Ages, and other large-scale concoctions, here's a disc for you. Esquisses (Sketches) contains 49 piano miniatures, each lasting from 43 seconds to a little more than four minutes. Alkan apparently composed these over a 15-year span. He eventually partitioned the collection into four volumes, arranged according to key sequence.