Rock historian ED WARD talks about the Million Dollar Quartet session released on RCA several years ago. The recording is of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and others playing in the Sun Records studios in 1956. INT. 2: Professor JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN. A native of Ireland, ordained as a priest in the U.S. (he left the Priesthood in 1969), CROSSAN now teaches biblical studies at DePaul University. CROSSAN is a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who meet to determine the authenticity of Jesus'' sayings in the Gospels. Earlier this year, CROSSAN wrote "Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography" (HarperCollins) which seeks to place Jesus in the context of his Jewish, Mediterranean and peasant roots; to see him as a Socratic philosopher and radical egalitarian. (REBROADCAST from 3/30/94) REV. 2: Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews a reissue of "The Voice That Is!" (Impulse!), by baritone singer Johnny Hartman.

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