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That is Helen Folasade Adu, known as "Sade" in the musical world. One lovely human, English and Nigerian, with quite a voice and great phrasing. (I'm a big fan).

who is the lady ? I like her eyebrows, that´s perfect form, that´s how I have mine also styled.....

I understand that Brubeck was a really nice guy, so it wouldn’t be a surprise at all if he’d taken the gig for fun (too bad she hung up so hastily).

Probably my favorite piece in the set.

The Go Fund Me to help Richie is still live if you feel like helping him: https://www.gofundme.com/f/coming-together-for-the-great-jazz-pianist-richie-beirach

I know someone in this movie; one of the kids killed by the headliner. So I watched it - well, most of it. The gore and violence rival any movie I've ever seen and were pretty ridiculous. The gore is pornographic really, since characters are obviously introduced and set up in scenes that telegraph intent from miles away.

I thought that I had snoozed and looked. CvD advised me that out of the 500 hard copy sets they had ordered that the manufacturer (in Poland!) still had another 200 or so to deliver and most of those were going to vendors. She suggested reserving a copy at either Dusty zGroove or Forced Exposure. Good advice, but when I went to Forced Exposure, they showed it as In Stock, so I ordered, and it looks like it's good to go. So, Forced Exposure, yeah!

I have quite a number of Ray Bryant albums but I return to this one often.

It’s equally good and there’s much more. They were magic together.

@Late, I'll make one more Beirach recommendation: Forgotten Fantasies. It's not a trio album though. It's a duo LP with David Liebman. Unforgettable music, imo.

👌👍 Very swinging

I have quite a collection of Ran Blake LPs and CDs but haven't kept up with anything more recent than the duets with Sara Serpa from 2010. So many duets. I'd love to hear his 1994 appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz but haven't found it archived online yet. Something I found out recently was that he wrote liner notes for other musicians' albums several times: Chris Connor – Cocktails and Dusk; Free Spirits reissue Horace Silver – The Trio Sides (Blue Note) Mal Waldron – One and Two I don't own any of these releases, but I very much wanted to read the Waldron liner note, so I used a magnifying glass and read the image on Discogs. He recounts his intense lessons with Waldron, who at first did not want to take him on as a student. Blake said he's never met a more patient person than Waldron. He also recalled working in the kitchen at the Jazz Gallery nightclub and making something called "Ivory Soap mayonnaise." 🤨 He refers to "High on a Windy Hill" as one of the most harmonically sophisticated ballads ever written. I don't know if he essayed it for any of his recordings, but here is a fairly recent YouTube performance: Ran Blake - High on a Windy Hill (Tribute to Chris Connor)

Billie Holiday, “Masters of Jazz Vol. 3” Storyville cd 300×297 9.04 KB Been too long since I listened to some Billie.

Oh yeah. Summer Night is another good one! There are so many.

Thanks! I'm listening to Summer Night, with Mraz and Billy Hart, right now (on YouTube). Their cover of "Solar" is excellent.

Elm is a desert-island disc for me. For more of Beirach's (piano-bass-drums) trio recordings, I'd recommend these: As you can see above, George Mraz was a frequent collaborator with Richie Beirach. I would also recommend these two albums under Mraz's leadership, both of which feature Beirach in a trio setting:

I've slept on Beirach's music far too long. Looking for recommendations of trio work (piano-bass-drums) in particular. I've heard Elm, and it was really good. Elm

Spun this last night and had to stop what I was doing and just listen. I used to think I wasn't a fan of their duo work, but thankfully I was mistaken. This is a really good session. I still haven't heard Volume 2 of this set.