Mary Stallings, vocals; Alan Steeger, piano; Ron Belcher, bass; Darrell Green, drums
The New York Times said, "perhaps the best jazz singer singing today is a woman almost everybody seems to have missed." That woman is Mary Stallings, a Bay Area native, who has performed with such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, Billy Eckstine, and Count Basie. In 2006 she was presented with the San Francisco Jazz Festival's Beacon Award for her contributions to jazz in the Bay Area.