Jane tells her story from her perspective as a teen prodigy who takes her chances in the "Big Apple." She is on the scene, and in no time she's runnin' with the big dogs, the finest Jazz musicians New York had to offer. This is an inside view of the smokey night clubs, the real skinny on the relationships and interactions between the cats. Runnin' With The Big Dogs is a portrayal of the Jazz scene in the mid 60s to the early 70s.

"Adventures In Manic Depression," is not a book about manic-depression, "although I make no bones that I have been living with this condition since I was nine years old" says author Stuart Goldman. The book is a collection of Goldman's work-both fiction and non-fiction, culled from over 40 years of writing for newspapers and magazines. "The hardest thing about putting this book together," Goldman says, was to find an "order" to put the stories into. A lifetime professional musician, Goldman said that putting "Adventures" together was rather like composing a symphony. "It was all about rhythm,...