The influences on pianist Eric Watson's music are legion: Charles Ives, John Lewis, Thelonious Monk, Lennie Tristanom, Mal Waldron and many others. The Watson-Lauer combination guarantees musical pleasure full of rhythmical nuances in quadruple time à la Buddy Rich. Watson catapults Lauer to stratospheric heights, reminiscent of Coltrane's 'sheets of sound': a kaleidoscope of sounds, deep sonorities and inescapable overtones.