Ron Jeremy

Drummer Joe Farnsworth leads a stellar intergenerational sextet on his dazzling album, THE BIG ROOM featuring Jeremy Pelt, Sarah Hanahan, Joel Ross, Emmet Cohen, and Yasushi Nakamura.

Jeremy Pelt has the most beautiful trumpet tone exercised today. One needs to listen no further than his cover of Mingus' "Weird Nightmare," where one cannot distinguish his trumpet from his flugelhorn, save for a period in the middle section. On this piece, Mr. Pelt's tone is round and buttery warm in the first and third sections and simmering in the middle. Backed by a string quartet on several pieces, a "with strings" connotation would not have been off base. In fact, this disc would be comparable to Chet Baker with Strings had Baker had a modicum of Pelt's creative sense…

The plot is basically a cheap ripoff of Humanoids From The Deep, but with Ron Jeremy. Really he's in this! Anyway, there's a film crew trying to make a high concept porno about fish monsters raping women, and it turns out that the little sea-side town that they go to shoot in really does have fish monsters that rape women. There's also a bitchy ichthyologist with the same name as the porn director and some convoluted side plot about aliens.

After being imprisoned for six years on a grand theft auto charge, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (James Frain) are finally going to be paroled. After hearing endless stories during his incarceration of Nick's romantic correspondence to a woman named Ashley he has never met (Charlize Theron), Rudy is looking forward to returning to his family and having a fresh cup of hot chocolate.