The third entry in the Peter Jarvis & Friends series features a few tracks with Chris Opperman, including “Fang & Claw” (which might be the closest to punk rock the famed classical label Naxos has ever released) and “A Vaudevillian Circus in the City,” a six-movement duo improvisation between Opperman and Jarvis. Opperman also played bass drum and trumpet on Jarvis’s Structures 3, op. 119.

The album also features brilliant compositions by Milton Babbitt, Frederic Rzewski, Gene Pritsker, Glen Velez, and others and boasts cover artwork from the legendary Mark Kostabi.

Peter Jarvis (b. 1959) is a percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor, and college professor. Over the decades, he has performed popular and unpopular music with equal enthusiasm. He has performed as a soloist, chamber player, Broadway musician and as conductor/player with numerous chamber music ensembles, orchestras and choruses. The proliferation of percussion literature is extremely important to Jarvis, and nearly 100 solo pieces have been composed for him, which he has performed on multi percussion, timpani, vibraphone, marimba, solo snare drum and drum set.

He has been nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy award for “Best Score” as part of the composing team for major Hollywood films.