I’m biased about this album because I performed on it as a member of the Cathedral Choral Society. The album is mostly live in concert, but we stayed after the performance with Dave’s quartet and the Telarc engineers to patch entrances and exits.

Dave Brubeck was fantastic to work with, very funny and very professional. When we first met him, our conductor jokingly told him he had always wanted to play something for him, and dashed off the first four bars of “Blue Rondo Ala Turk”—we all cracked up, but Brubeck said “More! More!” And in the middle of the recording session, after the other members of the quartet wandered off they needed to return for some more recording. The announcement went over the intercom for them to return, and as they were coming up the aisles of the Cathedral Brubeck began playing “Oh When The Saints Come Marching In,” and half the chorus joined in clapping and improvising vocal harmonies. (Not bad for a bunch of Episcopalians.)