Playing Favorites

In her third album, Cathi Walkup offers up a mixed palette of light and dark, the playful and the sublime.

The fourteen tracks on "Playing Favorites!" range from Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer to Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker - including an emotionally charged accolade to Billy Strayhorn, the great composer/arranger for Duke Ellington.

Walkup has crafted a wonderful melanage of light and dark - just like life - and delivers it straight from the heart with her trademark joy, care, and quiet abandon.

Recorded live at the Plush Room of the York Hotel, San Francisco, August 19 & 20, 2002