Pete Malinverni brings a significant background in classical and jazz studies to move through emotionally provocative compositions for Emerging Markets, which focuses on what Co-Producer Doug Moody describes as "the cities left behind in our own country that should be seen as the real emerging markets." Pianist and composer Pete Malinverni is joined by trumpeter Bruce Harris who has a joyful fire in his soul and one hears it throughout; tenor saxophonist Rich Perry is known in the Jazz world as an erudite practitioner whose sinewy lines reveal a deep heart; bassist Doug Weiss is a first call bandmate&emdash;always prepared, always swinging, always empathic in the music; Victor Lewis is a wonderfully compositional drummer, orchestrating in ways that always lend much to the proceedings.