This recording deserves to be heard by as many people as possible. So when I go out, I often look for places where the sounds are soft, where you reach out to the music, so to speak, instead of the other way around. The music is fairly quite and accessible, and there's a charming sense of chance-taking that goes on. Another duo fan is Cathy Segal-Garcia. She is the vibrant jazz singer who works each Friday and Saturday in the cozy lounge at Ca del Sole in North Hollywood, and each Wednesday and Thursday in a similar room at the Smokehouse, right across the street form the Burbank studios.
Duos are loose.
But they're a challenge. Segal-Garcia, is a native of Newton, Mass., but lives in North Hollywood, not too far from either of her regular gigs. She talked about Ca del Sole, where the house pianist is Marty Harris, the silver-hairdo veteran of the Woody Herman band and other top ensembles. And Marty's such a character. He'll stop and talk to the people, so we'll have conversations just like we're in someone's living room.